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Anonymous Ancestors #1

This is a charcoal and ink drawing depicting a portrait of a man with the upper part of his face deliberately wiped away. The man is depicted from the shoulders up. He is wearing a grey suit jacket with subtle stripes over a white shirt with a high collar and a dark grey tie. He is facing the viewer and has a neat mustache. Starting at his eyes, his face is obscured with long, sweeping horizontal

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Another Country

A hardback book titled Another Country by James Baldwin. The exterior has a paper book cover and a clear plastic book cover over that. The paper book cover is off-white with red text, centered, that reads: [Another / Country] and dark blue type, centered, that reads: [a novel / James / Baldwin] in large font on the front cover. The binding, in same color scheme, reads: [Another / Country / James /

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Answer to Van Gogh

The large, rectangular work has metal mesh and hydrostone plaster applied to the top surface to form a wide frame for the canvas painting at the center. The frame is painted with a variety of bright, overlapping colors, some in an abstract form or in a pattern of vertical and horizontal lines (top of frame). Along the bottom frame are marker-like inscriptions including a smile, letters [Hhaaaaaa]

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Answers for Action: Schools in the South

A pamphlet about Schools in the South and the impact of Brown vs. the Board of Education on segregated school districts. The front cover has brown ink on discolored paper. At top, there is a band of teal with white text. The interior consists of thirty-two pages of text and a map. The back of the pamphlet has information about how to obtain additional copies.

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Anthony "Drack" Mervin harvests oysters in the May River, Hilton Head Island, SC

A black and white digital image of Anthony “Drack” Mervin harvesting oysters in the May River on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The image shows Mervin from the waste down. Only his legs and arms are visible in the image. He is wearing rubber boots and gloves. He is standing in water and picking up an oyster.

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photograph

Anthony Barboza

H x W (image): 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (23.9 × 19.1 cm)

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Anthony Barboza

Just beneath the image in the bottom left corner is the title, year, and edition number handwritten in black ink: [Anthony Barboza 1972 1/5]. In the bottom right corner is photographer’s signature in black ink: [A. Barboza].

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photograph

Anthony Braxton, 1977

A black-and-white photograph of musician and composer Anthony Braxton performing at a concert in New York City. Braxton is photographed on stage from a low angle near the stage floor. He stands behind the contrabass saxaphone which he is playing. To his left are two other saxaphones resting on stands.

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Anthony Braxton, 1979

H x W (Sheet): 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

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Anti-Hazing Handbook: Say "No" To Hazing!

H x W: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)

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Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Democracy

A pamphlet titled, "Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Democracy". The pamphlet contains speeches by James W. Ford and Theodore Bassett. The cover has Ford's name at the top, the title at center, a description in the lower right, and copyright information at the bottom. All the text is black print on white paper. The pamphlet interior consists of nineteen pages of text. The back cover has an adver

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Antigone en Créole

A soft cover, first edition of the play Antigone en Créole by Félix Morisseau-Leroy. The front cover is white and features [F. MORISSEAU-LEROY] in uppercase green letters at the top left-hand corner. The name of the play [ANTIGONE] is printed just below in uppercase red letters, while the [EN CREOLE] occupies the left of the page. The words EN and CREOLE intersect at a 90-degree angle, with EN run

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<I>Anonymous Ancestors #1</I>

<I>Another Country</I>

<I>Answer to Van Gogh</I>

<I>Answers for Action: Schools in the South</I>

<I>Anthony "Drack" Mervin harvests oysters in the May River, Hilton Head Island, SC</I>

<I>Anthony Barboza</I>

<I>Anthony Barboza</I>

<I>Anthony Braxton, 1977</I>

<I>Anthony Braxton, 1979</I>

<I>Anti-Hazing Handbook: Say "No" To Hazing!</I>

<I>Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Democracy</I>

<I>Antigone en Créole</I>