Posts about Black History
McHistory: Housekeeper for the affluent and the tawdry
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McHistory: Bloomington-Normal Under Jim Crow Law
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Redd-Williams Legion Post McBarnes Building, January 1942
Seen here are Redd-Williams American Legion Post #163 members at the McBarnes Memorial Building on East Grove Street in Bloomington. Fo...
Rockets, mid-1940s Twin-City Recreation Center
The Rockets were an informal team connected to the Twin-City Recreation Center, 318 S. Main St., Bloomington. They played games Friday ...
Redd-Williams Legion Post January 1942
For much of the 20th century the Twin Cities had segregated American Legion posts. Seen here are Redd-Williams post members and auxilia...
George Stewart World War I veteran
This photograph, undated, shows George Stewart, a local (and well-decorated) World War I veteran. The “163” on his American Legion cap ...
Memorial Day 1960 African-American Legionnaires
The Redd-William American Legion Post color guard heads north on East Street in downtown Bloomington during the Memorial Day parade of ...
Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs Annual Convention, Bloomington 1918
The Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs held its nineteenth convention in Bloomington in late August 1918. Seen here are conve...
Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church Bloomington, June 9, 1940
Founded in October 1865 as South Hill Baptist Church, Mt Pisgah Baptist Church has played an important leadership role in the local Afr...
Photo of the Week, 66: African-American Voters Organize, February 1972
On February 15, 1972, the Minority Voters Coalition of
Bloomington-Normal elected officers during a meeting at the Sunnyside
Neighborho...
Photo of the Week, 54: Ike Sander’s “Short Order House,” ca. 1903-1911
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1878, Isaac Joshua Beasley Sanders
came to Bloomington sometime in the 1890s. “Ike" Sanders and ...
Photo of the Week, 53: Bloomington-Normal Branch of the NAACP, 1944
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost African-American civil rights organi...
Photo of the Week, 26: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
Olympic Speedster Jesse Owens Visits Bloomington Famed Olympian Jesse Owens visited Bloomington on June 27, 1938, less than two years a...
Photo of the Week, 8: Ike Sanders "Up, Up and Away"
This week's photo comes from the Museum's Bloomington-Normal Black History Project Collection. This “gag shot," circa 19...