Flickr member Vieille Annonces is to be commended for her scanned compilation of 1950s Black American magazines, primarily JET and EBONY. Like most Black Americans in the post WWII period, I literally grew up on "Ebony and Jet" as we often refer to them. Both were founded by pioneering Black American publisher (and Arkansas native) John H. Johnson. Johnson's wife, Eunice Walker Johnson (from Selma, Alabama), gave EBONY its distinctive name. Just as Eunice and John as a couple most of the vintage images play out the 'darker man-fairskinned Black woman' gendered color-consciousness of mid-20th century USA.
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