African American family photo album documents military service, educational attainment, and middle-class life in Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1960s, a period shaped by wartime participation, postwar migration, and the expansion of Black urban communities in the American West. Centered on members including Herman, a World War II.....
African American family photograph album, 1930s, Mt. Hope, Missouri, documents the daily life, social relationships, and labor conditions of a Black family during the Great Depression and provides direct evidence of both domestic life and employment structures in a rural Midwestern setting. Centered on the Berry family, including Helen Berry.....
Postwar African American military family photo album documenting the institutional pathways through which a black Los Angeles family pursued stability and advancement in the 1950s-60s. Images primarily center on a young black female graduate seen throughout the album, emphasizing academic success within an era where segregation and de-emphasis of female.....
