Vintage Black Beauties

Vintage Black Beauties

Celebrating the beauty of women of the black diaspora in vintage style because I love discovering old pictures that are new to me (and I wanted a place to save them). People don't have to be glamorous or famous to be beautiful.

Photos found on the net. Links provided. Not owned by me.
afrodiaspores: “Srita. Consuelo A. Serra Heredia, Investida con la toga de Doctora en Pedagogia y Graduada en el New York Normal College,” in Para blancos y negros: ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos, published in Havana in 1907. Alejandro de la Fuente writes, Some Afro-Cuban women also obtained college degrees against all odds…Consuelo Serra, a teacher in the normal school who completed university degrees in pedagogy and philosophy, recalled that her mother had one goal: to demonstrate that blacks could “triumph in life.” Success, in turn, depended on education, which her mother understood not only as schooling.

afrodiaspores:

“Srita. Consuelo A. Serra Heredia, Investida con la toga de Doctora en Pedagogia y Graduada en el New York Normal College,” in Para blancos y negros: ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos, published in Havana in 1907. Alejandro de la Fuente writes,

Some Afro-Cuban women also obtained college degrees against all odds…Consuelo Serra, a teacher in the normal school who completed university degrees in pedagogy and philosophy, recalled that her mother had one goal: to demonstrate that blacks could “triumph in life.” Success, in turn, depended on education, which her mother understood not only as schooling.

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