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Ernest Hemingway in Venice, 1948.

A stand-off between striking miners and police at Bilston Glen Colliery, Midlothian, 1984

Lieutenant Bertram W. Wilson of the Tuskegee Airmen, a renowned group of African American military pilots who served. The Tuskegee Airmen broke racial barriers by becoming the first African American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces. 

The legendary blues musician B.B. King with his signature Gibson ES-355 guitar, famously nicknamed "Lucille

"Navajo girl on Arizona Reservation," taken in 1948 by photographer John Collier Jr. on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, United States. The subject is wearing traditional attire, including handcrafted silver shirt collar caps and a necklace featuring silver quarters and 50-cent pieces. The photograph is part of the collection at the International Centre of Photography. 

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) and her Underwood 6 typewriter. She was the first black person (the term she preferred to African-American) to win a Pulitzer prize when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950. 

Most people don’t even know her name. Alice Parker is her name. Back in 1919, she created and patented a gas powered heating system when most homes were still using fireplaces and coal stoves. She imagined heating an entire home safely, with different rooms warmed individually instead of relying on one fire source. Even though her system wasn’t fully used back then, her ideas are the reason modern central heating and zoning exist today. That’s Black history. That’s legacy.

Photo by Gordon Parks

Photo by Gene Herrick

Photo by Charles Moore

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths

Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths