Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Addison Scurlock

 Howard University students watching a football game, 1920s
  
 Johnson's Sandwich Shop, ca. 1950
  
 Julia Brooks Wedding, 1947
  
 Marian Anderson is shown greeting Interior Secretary Harold Ickes 
in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC April 9, 1939
  
 Mary Church Terrell, ca. 1920
[she was an activist for women's suffrage and civil rights]
  
 Scottsboro Mothers with Ruby Bates, ca. 1931-33
[The Scottsboro Boys were convicted (in what was basically a show trial) of raping 
a white woman. The woman in question, Ruby Bates, recanted her accusation and 
later met with the mothers of the boys in an attempt to reconcile, as shown here.]
  
 Table tennis
  
 W.E.B. Du Bois, ca. 1911
  
 Women's tennis class, Howard University
  
 YWCA camp for girls, 1930
  
Addison Scurlock with sons

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