Gladys Bentley on “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho Marx in May, 1958.
Princess Kouka of Sudan with Paul Robeson in London on the way to North Africa to film “Jericho” in 1937.
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My gorgeous great-grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Parson Swilley. She was so lovely and sharp that a lady tried to buy the hat off of her head after church one day. She also taught me how to cook - and called me Sugarlump…
#APhiA105 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receiving a $1,000 check from Alpha Phi Alpha Gen. Secretary James E. Huger on March 20, 1956. Today is Founder’s Day for the 105-year-old fraternity which was founded in 1906 at Cornell University.
Photo via Bettman/Corbis. Original caption: 3/20/1956. Montgomery, AL: James E. Huger (center), Gen. Secretary of Alphi Phi Alpha fraternity, presents a check for $1,000 to Rev. Martin Luther King as they arrived for the second day in court. King is charged with leading a 15-week racial boycott against the city’s segregated buses. Huger and Louis C. Swingler (l), Southern Regional Vice-President of the fraternity, said the organization hopes to raise $5,000 “to help the situation here.” King was found guilty and fined $500.
The peerless Madam C.J. Walker was born 144 years ago today. In this photo by Addison Scurlock (circa 1912), Madam Walker is wearing a Chinese silk shawl that her great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles recently discovered in a steamer trunk.
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