History is often written with guns and glory.
It is typically lived with guts and grit.
But for some it is remembered in something as simple as a grin.
Particularly this smile, from the early 1900s - frozen in time in a black-and-white photograph that hangs on a wall in the University of New Mexico's Division of African American Studies.
The photograph tells an uncertain story of the smiling black woman built as strong as the porch on which she stands, a small child in her arms, a man void of expression standing in a shadow behind her.
The photo's title is as modest as the moment that it captures: "African American Coal Mining Family, Madrid, N.M." But it's the message of the image - a black family working to build a life free of discrimination - that speaks volumes. [...]
| Continue J.M. Baról's Albuquerque Tribune article "Black pioneers come into view"
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