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Fifty-seven years ago today, on August 28th, 1963, a whole generation marched on America's capital demanding equal rights and opportunities for black Americans. Today, I'm giving away a set of high-resolution, full-color, colorized images for free on Unsplash—it's the first time ever the public has been able to see them. All of these colorized photographs can now be shared, used, and modified for free under the terms of the Unsplash Licence.
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#1
Civil Rights March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Warren K. Leffler. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
39points
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
1963? that is when my grandma is ten and the USA already had colored photos?
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#2
Angela Davis, Half-Length Portrait
Original black and white negative by Bernard Gotfryd. Taken 1974, United States.
Final score:
38points
#3
The View Of The Huge Crowd From The Lincoln Memorial To The Washington Monument During The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Warren K. Leffler. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
37points
#4
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Mathew Ahmann In A Crowd
Original black and white negative by Rowland Scherman. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
36points
CCTheVampire 4 years ago
My mother was 20 days old when this was taken! If King hadn't been killed, he would have surely done so many more legendary things!
#5
Marchers With Signs At The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
33points
CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
You are very, very wrong my dear. Do you have do sit in the back of the bus? Do you have to use the back door to enter your non-black friend's house? Do you have to go to a separate place to eat, because you are not allowed where "decent folks (meaning white) folks" eat? Are you denied LITERALLY and LOUDLY denied a job because of your race? Not some perceived injustice, physically being thrown out of a building for DARING to apply for a job there. Have you been denied a drink of water, a place to play, a church to worship, a person to love, because of the color of your skin. You cannot HONESTLY answer yes to any of these questions. You want to, you may even perceive in your left filled brain that you have been. But, trust me sweetie. You have NOT! They DID! They were attacked by Dogs! Wiped off the street by water cannon! REAL men stood and protested FOR jobs. Boys now protest that the government doesn't give them enough money. And you think things haven't changed. poor deluded baby.
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#6
Martin Luther King Press Conference
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 26th, 1964, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
32points
#7
Poor People's March At Washington Monument And Lincoln Memorial
Original black and white negative by Warren K. Leffler. Taken June 19th, 1968, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
31points
#8
African American Demonstrators Outside The White House, With Signs "We Demand The Right To Vote, Everywhere" And Signs Protesting Police Brutality Against Civil Rights Demonstrators In Selma, Alabama
Original black and white negative by Warren K. Leffler. Taken March 12th, 1965, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
29points
#9
Young Women With Signs Raised Behind Them At The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
28points
CCTheVampire 4 years ago
Things have changed, first for the better, but now things are taking turns for the worse. Rights are being taken away. Our right to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. I'd call what's in office now tyrannical, wouldn't you? High gas prices, an elderly man who says he doesn't want his children going to school in a racial jungle, who thinks he can make decisions for the black communities when he was at the forefront of wanting segregation when it was a big thing. He loved segregation and trying to make people of color think they can't speak for themselves. Then Trump came and said that you could do what you dreamed of if you got off your a**e and tried hard enough, yet Biden and the other big liberals hated him. Think about it. It's because they still want to control the black population. Rather than speaking for someone else whose life you've never lived, give them a chance to talk. People of colour are humans too. They should be treated as such!!
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#10
Negro Voting In Cardoza
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken November 3rd, 1964, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
27points
CCTheVampire 4 years ago
Oh my days, her smile is just beautiful!! Goodness, she looks just radiant!
#11
John Lewis Speaking At A Meeting Of American Society Of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.c.
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken April 16th, 1964, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
26points
#12
Demonstrators Sit, With Their Feet In The Reflecting Pool, During The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Warren K. Leffler. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
25points
#13
Malcolm X Waits At Martin Luther King Press Conference, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken March 26th, 1964, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
25points
#14
Demonstrators Marching In The Street Holding Signs During The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
24points
#15
Core-Sponsored Demonstration At Realtor Office Of Picture Floor Plans, Inc.
Original black and white negative by the Seattle Police Department. Taken May 4th, 1964, Seattle, Washington State, United States.
Final score:
23points
#16
Bus Leaving Near The Washington Monument, After The March On Washington
Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
21points
#17
Drinking Fountain On The County Courthouse Lawn, Halifax, North Carolina
Original black and white negative by John Vachon. Taken April, 1938, Halifax, North Carolina, United States.
Final score:
21points
CCTheVampire 4 years ago
Oh, boy does this make me mad. No clue where Halifax is, but if I could just go back in time and lecture whoever out that sign up, I'd be happy.
#18
Leaders Of The March Leading Marchers Down The Street
Original black and white negative taken August 28th, 1963, Washington D.C, United States. Photographer unknown.
Final score:
20points
#19
Thurgood Marshall, Attorney For The Naacp
Original black and white negative by Thomas J. O'Halloran. Taken September 17th, 1957, Washington D.C, United States.
Final score:
19points
#20
Negro Going In Colored Entrance Of Movie House On Saturday Afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
Original black and white negative by Marion Post Wolcott. Taken October, 1939, Belzoni, MS, United States.
Final score:
17points
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
28-08-1963 was nearly the same as 28-08-2020 for black people. The only difference is that in 1963 the US had a president who was trying to unite the country instead of a racist narcissist megalomaniac preaching racial inequality, violence and who is trying the best he can to make the United States the most divided nation in the world where white fights black, poor are oppressed by the rich and left and right are willing to murder each other over their political beliefs. His "Make America Great Again" scheme surely paid off.
MissJenny 5 years ago (edited)
There was one female speaker at the March on Washington in 1963. That woman was the fabulous Ms. Josephine Baker! She deserves so much recognition. Please read about her. The life she lived was absolutely incredible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/march-on-washington-had-one-female-speaker-josephine-baker/2011/08/08/gIQAHqhBaJ_story.html
MissJenny 5 years ago
And another article: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1963-josephine-baker-speech-march-washington/#:~:text=In%201963%2C%20at%20the%20age,at%20the%20March%20on%20Washington.&text=Baker%20spoke%20just%20before%20Dr,I%20Have%20a%20Dream%E2%80%9D%20oration.
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Marnie 5 years ago
I was born in 1967 (in Minnesota), and it took well into my early 30s before I really realized that the civil rights movement happened just before I was born, that my childhood years came just on its heels. I had always had this vague notion that all that was long, long in the past. And I thought that with my generation and subsequence ones, racism would just fade away, that racism and prejudice would all be largely fixed by now with a few awful old people holding on. How wrong I was. People's ability to justify their immorality and hatred seems to know no bounds. (And many call themselves "good Christians", which is just utterly astounding.)
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
28-08-1963 was nearly the same as 28-08-2020 for black people. The only difference is that in 1963 the US had a president who was trying to unite the country instead of a racist narcissist megalomaniac preaching racial inequality, violence and who is trying the best he can to make the United States the most divided nation in the world where white fights black, poor are oppressed by the rich and left and right are willing to murder each other over their political beliefs. His "Make America Great Again" scheme surely paid off.
MissJenny 5 years ago (edited)
There was one female speaker at the March on Washington in 1963. That woman was the fabulous Ms. Josephine Baker! She deserves so much recognition. Please read about her. The life she lived was absolutely incredible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/march-on-washington-had-one-female-speaker-josephine-baker/2011/08/08/gIQAHqhBaJ_story.html
MissJenny 5 years ago
And another article: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1963-josephine-baker-speech-march-washington/#:~:text=In%201963%2C%20at%20the%20age,at%20the%20March%20on%20Washington.&text=Baker%20spoke%20just%20before%20Dr,I%20Have%20a%20Dream%E2%80%9D%20oration.
Load More Replies... Marnie 5 years ago
I was born in 1967 (in Minnesota), and it took well into my early 30s before I really realized that the civil rights movement happened just before I was born, that my childhood years came just on its heels. I had always had this vague notion that all that was long, long in the past. And I thought that with my generation and subsequence ones, racism would just fade away, that racism and prejudice would all be largely fixed by now with a few awful old people holding on. How wrong I was. People's ability to justify their immorality and hatred seems to know no bounds. (And many call themselves "good Christians", which is just utterly astounding.)
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