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Death certification of Esther Roan, the occupation section lists her as a midwife

The Olivet Baptist Church was the second location used by the United Union Church as a place to congregate. This was a big step for the church because it meant they were gaining enough participants and enough funds to afford the upgrade from the…

Bernice Redmon, the first Black Registered Nurse in Canada, passes the Nurses Examiners Board of Virginia, and becomes a Registered Nurse in November 1944. She studied at the St. Phillip's Hospital, because Canadian schools did not accept Black women…

UNIA member meeting

First Baseball card of Baseball player Jimmy Claxton while he played for the Oakland Oaks

This was an advertisement for an organization called Zami as seen on the front page of a queer-focused magazine called Xtra!. Zami was founded in 1984 by a Black lesbian feminist, Debbie Douglas, along with other members like Courtnay McFarlane.…

This is another photograph taken by Yucho Chow, centering around an unidentified Black sailor from the US Navy in 1944. Here there is again the attempt to humanize minority soldiers, individualizing them by capturing their faces to present to a world…