Black History Month: Images

Browse images by selecting a migration, from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Includes 500 images documenting the social, political, and cultural world of African Americans from slavery through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond.

The inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Includes 100 photographic portraits of well-known African Americans - abolitionists, artists, scientists, writers, statesman, entertainers, and sports figures.

Photographs in the Civil War Photograph Collection that include African Americans, from The Library of Congress.