Picturing Black history: photographs and stories that changed the world

The power of images and stories / Daniela Edmeier and Damarius Johnson

I. Portraits of Black history. The Black founders of the United States of America / Lagarrett King

Portraits of a Black daguerrotypist / Cedric Rose

A sharecropper's family / Alex Lichtenstein

Twice buried / Kelsey A. Moore

Photographing history in the making / Michael M. Santiago

II. Black women: activist lives and legacies. The revolution of being / Chet'la Sebree

A mother's power / Sierra L. Phillips

Marching mothers / Jessica Viñas-Nelson

Gloria Richardson : ACT in the freedom struggle / Jasmin A. Young

Remembering Alice Walker's The color purple / Lorna M. Closeil

III. Spaces and places of Black politics. Free the land, free the people / Jocelyn Imani

Children of the Mississippi freedom summer / Allison Mashell Mitchell

Wade in the water / Dustin Meier

Bombing MOVE / Sheneese Thompson

The locked out / Joshua Myers

IV. Black culture as people power. Beauty salons as sacred space in Black America / Blair Banks

Slim Hyatt : disquair extraordinaire / Shawn Waldron

"I am not worried about Ali" : Bill Russell, Jim Brown, and the Negro Industrial Economic Union / Raja Malikah Rahim

Bohemian Messiah : Jimi Hendrix finds freedom in London / Tammy L. Brown

Love is the message / Sai Isoke

V. Black education and resistance. Learning in secret places / Dawn Chitty

Twenty-two divided by seven, geometry at Tuskegee / Kwabena Slaughter

Poise and perseverance / Sarájanée O. Davis

The tumultuous days of SNCC / Ben St. Angelo

Student activism and the rise of Black studies / Kimberly F. Monroe

VI. Black America in wartime. Charles Young : the life of a soldier / Paul L. McAllister

Making and mobilizing art in times of war / Jovonna Jones

Mary McLeod Bethune / Ashley Robertson Preston

Joe Louis : the Black face of military propaganda / Brian C. Davis Jr.

Panthers and the premier : Black internationalism and Cold War China / Melvin Barnes Jr.

VII. Global dimensions of Black history. International legacies of African American civil rights activism / Damarius Johnson

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Pan-African Congress / James R. Morgan III

Castro comes to Harlem / Kevin McGruder

Anti-racist comrades : African Americans in Cuba / Christopher M. Shell

Refuge and revolution for Black Americans in France / Daniela Edmeier.