frankie-machine:

Eartha Kitt by Carl Van Vechten

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry aka Stepin Fetchit

Eartha Kitt, 1955

darling-liz:

Diana Ross & Lena Horne 

Diana looks so giddy!

isitscary:

Exotic dancer Madeline “Sahji” Jackson, 1940s. [x]

Madeline “Sahji” Jackson, one of the most popular exotic dancers of her day and cousin of Margot Webb, a headline dancer at the Cotton Club from 1933 to 1939. 

frankie-machine:

Eartha Kitt by Carl Van Vechten

vintageblackbeauty:

Aida Overton Walker in ‘In Dahomey’

circa 1903

© National Portrait Gallery, London