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Unpublished Black History
Unpublished Black History
Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives.
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Mayor John Lindsay and Mahalia Jackson
Earlier this week, we asked readers if they knew what was happening in the photo above, and why it mattered.
More than a thousand of you replied as of Thursday afternoon. Roughly half — more than 500 people — guessed correctly that the man on the left was John V. Lindsay, the mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973.
A much smaller number of readers correctly identified the black woman on the right: Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, who sang at the March on Washington in 1963 and at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.
Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives.
1300w
Mayor John Lindsay and Mahalia Jackson
Earlier this week, we asked readers if they knew what was happening in the photo above, and why it mattered.
More than a thousand of you replied as of Thursday afternoon. Roughly half — more than 500 people — guessed correctly that the man on the left was John V. Lindsay, the mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973.
A much smaller number of readers correctly identified the black woman on the right: Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, who sang at the March on Washington in 1963 and at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.
Great pictures from the past.