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Pigmentocracy

Illustration Credits

W. E. B. Du Bois, Half-Length Portrait, facing left. Created between 1920 and 1930. Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Control # 99471548
Reproduction Number: LC- USZ62-123822
Repository: Library of Congress

Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding newspaper. Created between 1890 and 1900. Booker T. Washington Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Control # 98500584
Reproduction Number: LC- USZ62-119897
Repository: Library of Congress

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, 1837-1921, half-length, seated, facing left. Governor of Louisiana. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Digital Id: cph 3b05341
Reproduction Number: LC- USZ62-57521
Repository: Library of Congress

Jean Toomer. Undated photograph. Portrait courtesy of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Image ID#: 1027165
Repository: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Charles W. Chesnutt, 40 years old (1897/1898). Photographs of Charles W. Chesnutt and his family, gift of Helen Chesnutt, 1970. Special Collections, Cleveland Public Library.
Call #: Sp Coll f 813.49 C42z23 Chesnutt06
Repository: Special Collections, Cleveland Public Library

Nadinola Bleaching Cream, advertisement, Ebony magazine, vol. V, no. 1, November 1949, p. 26. Permission pending.

Black and White Bleaching Cream, advertisement, Ebony magazine, vol. V, no. 1, November 1949, p. 31. Permission pending.

Beauty Star Skin Lightener, advertisement, Ebony magazine, vol. V, no. 1, November 1949, p. 36. Permission pending.



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