This photograph is part of a collection by photographer John W. Mosley that were brought to public attention on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow, by Cecily Langdale, John W, Mosley's wife.

Photo description: Albert Einstein standing at a blackboard teaching Black students in a class at Lincoln University (an HBCU).

In notes taken by the photographer John W. Mosley about this photograph: “in this photo, is Einstein’s amused reaction to one of the first questions asked by one of the students, which was ‘professor, can you explain in simple language your theory of relativity?’ And then he went on to proceed to provide an explanation; this is also another extraordinarily rare event for him to do an informal lecture on relativity.”

Some of Lincoln University’s distinguished students are: Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, and Cabell Calloway Jr., father to jazz singer Cab Calloway.

Einstein was himself a Jewish refugee from Nazi persecution. Having fled Germany in 1933 and eventually obtained U.S citizenship, he spoke eloquently at Lincoln University of his concerns about racism. In fact, in January, just a few months before his speech at Lincoln, Einstein had published an essay in Pageant Magazine entitled "The Negro Question," wherein he reflects movingly — and with the searing clarity of an outsider's perspective — upon entrenched racism in America.

Some 20 years before the major advances of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Einstein wrote, "The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out."

Einstein accepted the offer to visit Lincoln University from Horace Mann Bond,
Horace Mann Bond was a leader in the developing civil rights movement, and on this particular occasion his six-year-old son Julian Bond was at the session and apparently Einstein had given him advice that he should ‘never remember anything that was already written down.’ And of course Julian Bond ended up becoming the head of the NAACP many, many years later.

Horace Mann Bond (November 8, 1904 – December 21, 1972) was an American historian, college administrator, social science researcher and the father of civil-rights leader Julian Bond. He earned a master's and doctorate from University of Chicago, at a time when only a small percentage of any young adults attended any college. He was an influential leader at several Historically Black Colleges and was appointed the first president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia in 1939, where he managed its growth in programs and revenue. In 1945 he became the first Black president of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
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[ “The separation of the races is not a disease of the colored people,” Einstein told the graduates at commencement, “but a disease of the white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.” ] ~ PG 379, Caste / The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
[Many will answer: Negroes are not our equals in intelligence, sense of responsibility, reliability ]

“I am firmly convinced that whoever believes this suffers from a fatal misconception. Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”
~ Albert Einstein 1946

Source: https://www.lincoln.edu/.../albert-einstein%E2%80%99s...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann_Bond