"To go through these files (Ebony archives) is like stepping back in time and putting yourself inside a piece of history," said Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing in Chicago. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times
Linda Johnson Rice is the 54-year-old daughter of Johnson Publishing founders John H. and Eunice W. Johnson. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times
Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing, wears white gloves to handle the photographs in the new Ebony Publishing Archive. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Media
The Ebony Collection includes more than 2,000 images dating back to 1942, even before the magazine was started in 1945. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Media
Linda Johnson Rice hand-picked 2,000 photographs that are available to purchase as prints in the Ebony Collection. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Media
Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing, wears white gloves to handle the photographs in the archives of more than 2,000 images from Ebony magazine. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Media
Cubs great Ernie Banks signs a photo in the hallway of Johnson Publishing in 1977. “Ebony was so important to me,” he says. | Norman L. Hunter~Johnson Publishing
The Acapulco honeymoon of Nat King Cole and new bride Marie Ellington was chronicled in a 1948 Ebony cover story. Griffith Davis photo courtesy of Johnson Publishing.
At the 1968 funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King holds their daughter, Bernice. An Ebony cover bearing this image, a Pulitzer winner for photographer Moneta J. Sleet Jr., is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale a
Josephine Baker performs at Chicago's Regal Theater in 1960. The photo by Isaac Sutton is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing
Billie Holiday poses in 1958. The photo by Isaac Sutton is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing
Lena Horne is pictured on the cover of Ebony in July 1968. The photo by Moneta Sleet Jr. is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing
One picture captures a moment. More than 4 million photographs document a movement that changed the course of America. In November, Ebony magazine debuted the Ebony Collection, an online store (at www.ebony.com/store) that sells prints of 2,000 photos selected from the magazine’s archives. The pictures …
