The Souls of Black Folk



A Lynching
1880s




Booker T Washington, educator, founder of Tuskegee Institute
1856 - 1915








Family Picking Cotton




Students in lab at Hampton University circa 1890s







Children at Freedmen's School














Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1871.

These students from Fisk University travelled throughout the United States and Europe. They performed in front of Queen Victoria, and brought Black spirituals to a wider audience.


Poster Celebrating Emancipation