Intelligence. Talent. Hard work. Generations of African-Americans have helped make the US the nation it is today.
A truck driver, photographed in North Carolina in 1943. (John Vachon)
A shipyard worker with his daughter in 1942 Virginia. (Pat Terry)
Howard P. Parry, the first African-American to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. (Roger Smith)
Jane Bolin, the first African-American female judge.
Richard Wright, poet, photographed in his study in 1943. (Gordon Parks)
(photo by Roger Smith)
During World War II, these men were employed at a coast guard training center. They all taught boxing and, presumably, took turns being referee.
If this is the moment in which an African-American first assumes the presidency of the United States, may his judgment be sound and his decisions fair.
If this is the moment in which an African-American first assumes the presidency of the United States, may his judgment be sound and his decisions fair.
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