"Picturing Black History uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments. This beautiful collectible volume makes a thoughtful gift and is full of rousing, vibrant essays paired with rarely seen photographs that expand our understanding of Black history. The book is a collaborative effort between Getty Images, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, and the History departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities. It informs, educates, and inspires our current moment by exploring the past, blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images's archives with the renowned expertise of Origins contributors and The Ohio State's and Miami's History departments, including Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn. Created by a growing collective of professional historians, art historians, Black Studies scholars, and photographers and showcasing Getty Images's unmatched collection of photographs, Picturing Black History embraces the power of visual storytelling to relay little-known stories of oppression and resistance, perseverance and resilience, freedom, dreams, imagination, and joy within the United States and around the world. In collecting these new photographic essays, this book furthers an ongoing dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life, sharing new perspectives on the current status of prejudice and discrimination bias with a wider audience. Picturing Black History uses the latest academic learning and scholarship to recontextualize and dispel prejudices, while uncovering, digitizing, and preserving new archival materials to amplify a more inclusive visual landscape. "Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer's lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print." --

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

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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 --

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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 --

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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 --

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

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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 --

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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. --

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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