From suffrage to speakeasies, 65 photos show what life was like for women in the 1920s

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A woman smiled and held her lipstick and a stencil used to provide the perfect Cupid's Bow in 1925.
Exaggerated Cupid's Bows were a popular beauty trend in the 1920s.

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A Florida school made parents sign permission slips to let their kids participate in Black History Month events: report

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Close-up of Black teacher reading a book for students during Black History Month.
Close-up of a teacher reading a book for students during Black History Month.

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My family was chased off our land by a racist mob. More than 80 years later, I own it again.

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Opal Lee poses for a photas.o at her home in Fort Worth, Tex
Opal Lee, known as the 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' recently regained possession of land her family was driven away from more than eight decades ago.

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Black taxi drivers helped fuel the Montgomery Bus Boycott, even as they faced arrests and police pressure

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group of three people getting into a car as a bus is in the background during Montgomery, Alabama bus boycotts
Three people get into an automobile to car pool during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. An empty city bus is visible in the background.

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101 years before Rosa Parks, this woman integrated New York City's public transit

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Elizabeth Jennings Graham

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Thomas Edison tried to take credit for a device created by a Black American inventor

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Granville T. Woods
Granville T. Woods was a pioneering inventor with nearly 60 patents to his name.

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Bayard Rustin organized the 1963 March on Washington but was nearly written out of civil rights history because he was openly gay. He was also my life partner.

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Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin
Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin.

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