Care has been taken to use only visual material published prior to 1905, thus being in the public domain.
Photo on the home page of Martin Delany is courtesy of the USA and Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
Line art of W.E.B. DuBois on the home page is from the New York Public Library and appeared in "Voice of the Negro."
Line art by David Hunter Strother ("Porte Crayon") working for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" 1850 through 1870. (A large collection of Strother's drawings are in the West Virginia Collection of West Virginia Univesity).
Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture N.Y., N.Y.: (Russworm)
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: (Ray, Remond, Purvis, Shadd, R. Allen, Reason, Garnet, Ward, engraving of slaves on deck, woman and child in Africa, Cape Palmas, J.J. Roberts, F. Douglass, and John Brown)
Smithsonian Institute National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.: (George Washington and Martin R. Delany).
The Corcoran Galley of Art, Washington, D.C.: (James K. Polk)
From B. F. Wheeler, "Cullings from Zion's Poets" (Mobile, 1907): (William Howard Day).
The Massachusetts Historical Society: (William C. Nell).
The New York Public Library, N.Y., N.Y.: (William M. Smith, Elizabeth Greenfield, J.J. Wright, William Langston, and various line art drawings).
"The National Cyclopedia of American Biography," 1891 through 1904 (James T. White & Company: New York): (Fillmore, King, Longstreet, Zachary Taylor).
J. Wells Champney, illustrator of "The Great South" by Edward King, and serialized in "Scribner's Magazine" in the 1870s.
Cornell University Library: ("The Slave Ship").
Chicago Historical Society: (John Jones).
F. H. Meserve Collection: (Lewis Hayden).
Harvard University, Widener Library: (Fugitive line drawing).
Culver: (Ben Tillman)
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA: (William Lloyd Garrison).
Smith College Library: (Oliver Johnson in group photo).
Metropolitian Museum of Art: (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
Ruth Scarborough Library, Shepherd College. (Charcoal drawing of young black girl by Violet Dandridge)