Children in flower costumes

A few nice Children images I found:

Children in flower costumes

Image by The Field Museum Library

Group of children in costumes made up to look like flowers. Wildflower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter. 1902.

Original size and material: 3 1/2 x 4 inch hand-colored glass lantern slide
Digital Identifier: B83516_G50c

Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/

SLAVES, EX-SLAVES, and CHILDREN OF SLAVES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1860 -1900 (16)




Image by Okinawa Soba

Black Angels in Savannah, Georgia.

....with fans for wings !

After Raphael : portitude.org/arts/raphael/1514-two_cherubs.jpg

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"......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465&am...

Okinawa_Soba has many original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were "freed" during the America's Civil War.

To match these images, he also has a box of 19th Century and early 20th Century images of "Black Africa", showing the tribes, roots, and culture that is now a universe away from the modern day existence of "African Americans".

Behind the faces of these few images I'm posting here, are lives and experiences that most White people in America will never understand -- either then, or now.

[This caption is the same for all. If you have read this far, no need to do so for all the others with the same picture Title]

The child is grown, the dream has gone.




Image by just.Luc

View On Black

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

(Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd)