Florence Iva Begay, a Navajo baton twirler and high school valedictorian from Flagstaff, Arizona, became the subject of national attention in 1948 after an incident on a bus in the Texas Panhandle exposed the realities of segregation faced by Native Americans traveling outside the Southwest....
This photo of a little Black majorette was taken at the National Elks Convention in New York City in 1945. The photographer was the renowned John W. Mosley (1907-1969), a foremost photojournalist of 20th Century Philadelphia. He documented the “vitality of the Black community and life in the...
