{"id":1231,"date":"2015-02-16T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:37:49","slug":"black-family-history-through-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/black-family-history-through-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Family History Through a Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/digitaldiaspora-ladies.jpg\" alt=\"Archival family photo from the Digital Diaspora Family Roadshow\" width=\"600\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/digitaldiaspora-ladies.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/digitaldiaspora-ladies-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p><em>Archival family photo from the Digital Diaspora Family Roadshow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A wonderful companion piece to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/thomas-harris-goes-lens-darkly\">Thomas Allen Harris<\/a>&#8216;s film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/through-a-lens-darkly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Through a Lens Darkly:\u00a0Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People<\/em><\/a> is\u00a0his Digital Diaspora Family Reunion\u00a0project \u2014 a roadshow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/1world1family.me\/ddfr-roadshows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connecting\u00a0communities and history through family photographic archives<\/a>.\u00a0Read more about the project in this <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentary.org\/feature\/digital-diaspora-family-reunion-new-kind-geneology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Documentary Magazine<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentary.org\/feature\/digital-diaspora-family-reunion-new-kind-geneology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> piece<\/a>, which accurately sums it up as using &#8220;the power of interactive media to create a movement to get African Americans to reconsider and revalue their family photo collections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although they say\u00a0a picture is worth a thousand words, rather than write another thousand words about this idea, here is a small collection of some wonderful historic images of African American people and families, both from the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion collection as well as a from other sources\u00a0(where noted).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1225\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marymarshall-ddfr.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Marshall family photo, black and white, circa 1950s\" width=\"600\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marymarshall-ddfr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marymarshall-ddfr-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From Mary Marshall)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From DDFR participant <a href=\"http:\/\/1world1family.me\/trudy-erwin-preserving-family-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trudy Erwin<\/a> comes this family photo:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trudy.jpg\" alt=\"Trudy Erwin's family, from digital diaspora family roadshow\" width=\"597\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trudy.jpg 597w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trudy-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/picturethis\/2014\/02\/du-boiss-american-negro-exhibit-for-the-1900-paris-exposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. E. B.\u00a0Du Bois\u2019s American Negro Exhibit for the 1900 Paris Exposition<\/a>, Library of Congress:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/89\/Valentine_dance%2C_school_%282898490693%29.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine dance, school, 1956. Source: The Library of Virginia @ Flickr Commons.\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentine dance, school, 1956. Source: The Library of Virginia @ Flickr Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1143\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dubois-family.jpg\" alt=\"African American family posed for portrait seated on lawn, W. E. B. Du Bois, collector, 1899 or 1900\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dubois-family.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dubois-family-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African American family posed for portrait seated on lawn, W. E. B. Du Bois, collector, 1899 or 1900<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1212\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gordonparks-americangothic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gordonparks-americangothic.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gordonparks-americangothic-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Parks &#8220;American Gothic, Washington D.C.&#8221; (not part of Boston exhibit).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Featured in <em>Through a Lens Darkly<\/em>, important 20th century photographer Gordon Parks is the subject of a super new exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts Boston: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.org\/exhibitions\/gordon-parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon Parks Back to Fort Scott<\/a>, &#8220;groundbreaking photographs of Fort Scott, Kansas \u2014 focusing on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relating to Parks\u2019s own fascinating life story.&#8221; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.org\/node\/428931?modal=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preview the exhibition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the\u00a0Farm Security Administration Collection:<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1211\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/westvirginia-coalminer.jpg\" alt=\"Coal miner, his wife and two children, [notice the child's legs], Bertha Hill, West Virginia, Sep. 1938.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. September 1938 Source: Farm Security Administration Collection\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/westvirginia-coalminer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/westvirginia-coalminer-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coal miner, his wife and two children, Bertha Hill, West Virginia, Sep. 1938.. Wolcott, Marion Post &#8212; Photographer. September 1938<\/p><\/div>See also:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.si.edu\/exhibit\/motto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits,<\/a>\u00a0the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, featuring photographic portraits of prominent African Americans, highlighting black resistance over the course of 150 years in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archival family photo from the Digital Diaspora Family Roadshow A wonderful companion piece to Thomas Allen Harris&#8216;s film Through a Lens Darkly:\u00a0Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is\u00a0his Digital Diaspora Family Reunion\u00a0project \u2014 a roadshow\u00a0connecting\u00a0communities and history through family photographic archives.\u00a0Read more about the project in this Documentary Magazine piece, which accurately sums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1282,2273],"topic":[1239,1264,1252,1293],"class_list":["post-1231","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independent-lens-season","tag-interactive-features","topic-identity","topic-race-ethnicity","topic-visual-arts","topic-youth-and-family"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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