Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson Instagram – From slavery to the Civil War, to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, to the century of Jim Crow, to the Great Migration, to the black-led civil rights laws that opened doors not only for black citizens but for women of all races and for immigrants — black history is American history. The country’s full story cannot be told without it.
Where would we be as a nation, what kind of culture would we have, without the music, art, literature, hard labor and inspired creativity of black Americans, who converted trauma into triumph over the centuries? Genius knows no color. And every single group on these shores has been necessary to making this country what it is, to the benefit not only of this country but of the world.
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Photo 1: Fourth U.S. Infantry Detail, U.S. Colored Troops, Civil War, 1864
Photo 2: Segregated beach, Florida, 1940s
Photo 3: Tuskegee Airmen, World War II
Photo 4: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
Photo 5: Dancers at the Savoy Ballroom
Photo 6: Jim Crow Alabama, 1956, photo by Gordon Parks
Photo 7: John Coltrane
Photo 8: Toni Morrison
Photo 9: James Baldwin
Photo 10: “A Raisin in the Sun,” the 1961 film based on Lorraine Hansberry’s play, starring Sydney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil
Photo 11: Leontyne Price
Photo 12: Martin Luther King Jr. | Posted on 03/Feb/2025 05:21:18