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Adorable photo of a black cheerleading squad in Los Angeles, 1963

(via USC Libraries)

#african american #african american girls #black history #black girls #cheerleader #vintage #60s #los angeles

My newest illustration, Belinda Bloodflower.

Can find the print and wares at my Redbubble shop or Society6 Shop

#tabitha brown #illustration #black artists #black woman art #devil #tattoo art

Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus, 1970

(via Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1970).Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-57d9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 )

#protestors #resist #70s #gay rights #black rights #feminism #civil rights #vintage

Connie Chung, circa 1970s

#70s #gif #connie chung #journalist #asian #anchorwoman

My newest illustration, “Holding Hands.”

Available at Redbubble

#tabitha brown #illustration #girlfriend #sister #friend #lesbian #lgbtq #black art #women artists

Some new prints in my shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/thepairabirds

#tabitha brown #black art #women artists #fashion illustration #botanical #girl art

Jennifer Beals in Perky Jean commercial, 1983

#jennifer beals #makeup #beauty #fashion #80s #gif #nail polish #perky jean #shiseido

Women from Guadeloupe, circa 1904 - 1915

(via NYPL)

#Guadeloupe #antique #vintage #women #1900s

Artist Selma Burke with her portrait bust of Booker T. Washington

circa 1935 - 1943

(via NYPL)

#selma burke #artist #sculpture #art #30s #40s #black woman #vintage

Home Again

A crowd of African American Women's Army Corps members waving at the camera, Staten Island Terminal, New York Port of Embarkation, March 13, 1946.

(via NYPL)

#african american #black woman #Black and White #women's army corps #new york #vintage #40s

Happy to be home

African American members of the Women's Army Corps standing in the snow and throwing snowballs at each other, Camp Shanks, New York, January 3, 1946

(found at NYPL)

#african american #black woman #women's army corps #camp shanks #40s #snow #snowball fight #vintage

Cicely Tyson in 1961 stage production, “The Blacks”

Photo by Martha Swope

(citation: Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Unidentified actor and Cicely Tyson in the stage production The Blacks" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1961. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/239aa000-4395-0133-c398-00505686a51c )

#Cicely Tyson #the blacks #Theater #60s #black and white #vintage #actress #black woman