schwingheil:

bygoneamericana:

College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento, 1942.

nostalgiagolden:

Dorothy Dandridge circa 1955/1956. Looking so lovely…

showmethesneer:

Eartha Kitt slamming and shutting down street harassment and objectification in Anna Lucasta (1958)

newlevant:

Hi! I’m stoked to present my thesis comic, If This Be Sin, based on the life of Gladys Bentley. It’s for sale on Gumroad! You can download the 16 page full-color PDF for $2.

Gladys Bentley, was a blues singer, piano player, and drag king who performed bawdy tunes in Harlem nightclubs throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the social obstacles she faced as a black, openly queer woman, her outrageous and energetic act became a mainstay of the Harlem cabaret. In 1952, under the oppressive social conditions of the McCarthy era, Bentley publicly renounced her previous identity and claimed to have found happiness as a feminine housewife.

Gumroad is super simple to use, you just have to enter your credit card number and you’ll be sent a direct download, plus Gumroad will email you a link to re-download it if you ever lose track of the file.

FOR EVERY 100 NOTES, I’LL GIVE AWAY A DIGITAL COMIC TO A RANDOM TUMBLR USER so please share if you can! (Within each 100 notes, only people who reblog are eligible for a free copy.)

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the comic!

Happy birthday, Ella Jane Fitzgerald! (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)

tornandfrayed:

Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye

Rita Moreno, photographed by Loomis Dean, 1954.

dngmil:

Chaka Khan On Drums