Black People Playing Cards is owned and operated by Rory D. Rennick, a historian, researcher, authority, and lecturer specializing in the history and cultural significance of Black people playing card art, card decks and imagery. This site presents what is intended to be the largest publicly available collection of black people imaged playing cards, advertisements, historical art, and data on this subject.

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