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<I>Capture of a Slaver off the Coast of Cuba</I>

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Pinback button for the Examining Ethics podcast

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Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball in the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Green bodice and skirt with brown stripe accents

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Cuff links for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Sadiron from Deltaville, Virginia

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Photograph of an IBPOEW convention

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Printing plate of an unidentified Woolsey Hall employee

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Tintype of a man standing

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Stone slave auction block from Hagerstown, Maryland

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Wooden paddle

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Bolt with nut

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Rhinestone earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Photographic print of children playing on the sidewalk

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Charleston slave badge from 1847 for Porter No. 365

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Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway

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Violin case owned by Bo Diddley

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Pennant for Wilberforce University

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Jig doll in the form of a clown

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Photograph of five female performers and one male performer

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Postcard of the Vittoriano and Colosseum in Rome owned by Dick Howard

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Tambourine used on stage at Wembley Stadium during Prince's Nude Tour

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Printing plate of Michael Mulcahy

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<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: FILLING UP COFFEE CUPS AT THE COFFEE URNS AT THE END OF CHOW LINE</I>

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Sickle

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Warren County Courthouse cistern double brick made by an enslaved person

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Black shawl with floral embroidery and fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>Barack Obama: Sobre Temas Latinos</I>

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Handkerchief used by Ira Tucker Sr.

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Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby

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Photograph of Emmett Till with his mother, Mamie Till Mobley

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Photographic print of a toddler girl sitting and smiling at the camera

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Splitting maul owned by Melody Starya Mobley

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Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Button reading [I LIKE BUF], with backing

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Metallic gold purse worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Yellow wide brim hat with applique flowers

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Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

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Spanish-language telephone script from the 2008 Obama Virginia campaign

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Decorative bowl from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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American flag flown over the Capitol in honor of Dr. William Neal Brown

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Photograph of unidentified child at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Cobalt blue European glass trade beads

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Negative of the President's Mansion of Roger Williams University

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Straw hat with pink hat band and bow

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Photograph of James Parsons with lab colleagues at Duriron Co.

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Peach straw hat with fabric flowers

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Tintype of a woman seated

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Pinback button for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign designed by Gail Anderson

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Pinback button for the Milwaukee 14

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Photograph of two women

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Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett at Africa exhibit at The Field Museum

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Blackface mask of a man wearing a top hat

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Glass stemware with floral etching from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Negative of a woman in front of a tree

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Plastic bottle from pilot suvival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

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Pincushion from a sewing basket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Printing plate of Mildred Smith and Alfred Drake in Beggar's Holiday

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Holiday card from William Grant Still

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Warrant ordering a slave patrol in Loudon County, Virginia

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Photograph of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and another man

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Article page describing a trial of South African Activists

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Photographic print of of two women and three children sitting

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Wrought iron collar

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Four photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan

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Upholstered yellow armchair from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Stereotypical Black cloth doll with a pink dress and white apron

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Negative of four men in suits

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Envelope addressed to Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Townsend

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Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown

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A group portrait of young men from the High School YMCA Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Pinback button for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Blue leather belt worn on Soul Train by dancer Edith Lynn Pickens

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Shackles

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Cutter mattock

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Neck yoke

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<I>Congressman John Conyers brings greeting from Washington D.C.</I>

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Tintype of William H. Morris

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Lapel pin promoting affirmative action

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Photograph of W.C. Handy playing the trumpet

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Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial

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<I>Ella Fitzgerald</I>

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Pendant for Heritage Club membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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CDV of John Hines, formerly enslaved and cook of Company K, 15th Penn. Cavalry

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Tintype of girl standing

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Five figurines in the form of caricatured male musicians

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Photograph of Gladys Bentley

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Suede wingtip shoes for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Sign in the shape of the letter "O" used in a Black Men of Labor parade

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Two pieces of metal hardware from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Wire oyster basket

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Albumen portrait of Charlotte S. Poulton mounted on paper

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Program for a 90th birthday celebration for Juanita Smith Booker

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S1W uniform

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Poster reading "Give Kindess a Chance" used at Baltimore protests

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Photographic print of Ira Tucker

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Photograph of the senior officers of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company

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Costume worn on Soul Train by dancer Edith Lynn Pickens

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Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4

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Photographic print of an unidentified woman in a cemetery

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Six pencils from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Page 18 of album belonging to Lewis C. Smith

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Corn planter used by the Madison family

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Postcard of two men posing in a Western scene in a photography studio

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Ambrotype of a Civil War soldier

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Digital image of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors before Supreme Court Building

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Artificial plant lamp from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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Cased tintype of an unidentified Union soldier

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Satin bow tie worn by Eugene Allen

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Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform worn by Medina Rowell

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Wooden cane with engraved decorative motifs

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Bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Blue-green prison issue beanie worn by Herman Wallace

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Photograph of James Baldwin standing in front of a mural

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Photograph of a woman riding a mule

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Cream knit mohair beret

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Photograph of Cab Calloway

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Pinback button promoting the African National Congress

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Oyster knife

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Photograph of Felton W. Williams Jr. and Arthur M. Williams playing guitar

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Photograph of a baseball player

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Tintype portrait of a man wearing a hat and suit

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<I>Leland, Miss. Looking from R. R. Water Tank 4-30-27</I>

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Rhinestone necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Boxing pennant for Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries

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Pink pleated bustier with ruffled hem

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Pledge bucket hat with buttons and pins from Delta Sigma Theta sorority

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Pinback button of Malcolm X

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<I>Yolanda King, oldest daugher of Martin Luther King, Jr. arriving at Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

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Tintype of a young woman with a white child

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Bar chair with black vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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<I>Loading the Baggage Car</I>

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Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Program for a performance by Harry James and Nina Simone in Montreal

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Pinback button for the Willie Brown campaign for Assemblyman

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Poster featuring James Brown in a black suit and bowtie

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<I>One Room For 9 of us - Georgia</I>

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Photograph of Muriel Millard

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Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

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Porcelain hatpin holder from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Table knocker from the Paradise Club

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Shrub hook

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Folder for The Committee For The Negro In The Arts, Art Workshop Folio

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Box holding pin from the Philadelphia Cotillion Society for Mary Church Terrell

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Photograph of Jalal Nuriddin, Suliaman El-Hadi, and four unidentified men

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Light taupe dress with beaded embellishments

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Photograph of Umar Bin Hassan performing at The Apollo Theater

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Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey

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Metal mesh necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Bible used during Vietnam War by soldier Thomas Smith

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Official poster for the 2017 Women's March on Washington

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Silver metal brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Conductor's baton owned by Cab Calloway

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First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

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Banner for Public Enemy

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Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II during the Vietnam War

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Photographic print of Maxine Sullivan and Paula Williams

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French manilla

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Photograph of Gloria King at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Left gold heeled sandal with ankle strap

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Cummerbund worn by Eugene Allen

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Nation of Islam Moslem Girls' Training School uniform worn by Jamilah Sahib

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Memorial services program for Amanda Edna Carey Carter

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>The Dixie Hummingbirds</I>

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Collar stays worn by Eugene Allen

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Photograph of Gilbert E. DeLorme Sr., Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

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Rhinestone earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Kissi iron currency

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Green net hat with velvet bow

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Wooden fork

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Wooden knife

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Iron cooking pot hook from the Brock Plantation

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Flier for The Beastie Boys with Fishbone at the Hollywood Palladium

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Glass stemware with floral etching from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Wide pink scarf with metallic border from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of First AME Church with bus and sedan

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Pinback button for the Young Lords Party

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Shackles

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Pinback button for Herman B. Ferfuson's campaign for Senate

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Pinback button featuring a campaign portrait of Senator William B. Nash

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Gelatin silver print of a couple dancing in front of a crowd

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Letter to the captain of the Convenção from the Rio de Janeiro Police

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Envelope with tobacco carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

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Print of the Oakland Ladies Auxiliary

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<I>S. S. Toliver Bringing In Refugees from Greenville and Vicinity</I>

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Wash pot

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Photograph of a seated couple

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<I>Coretta Scott King is being protected by police officers and civil rights workers as she leaves Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

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<I>Audience at First Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held at Ebenezer Baptist, 1969</I>

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Chromogenic print of a Booker T. Washington High School reunion at Mayo Hotel

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Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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Rhinestone bracelet worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Yellow feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

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Member badge for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Pinback button promoting the Million Women March

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Photographic postcard of James J. Jeffries staggering away from Jack Johnson

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Armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Postcard of a produce vendor

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Photograph of unidentified woman

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Hollow-cut silhouette of Jane Miller Dickey

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Brown pillbox with faux fur trim

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Black straw hat with cream net

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Poncho with graphic design

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Brown faux ostrich leather purse with mirror

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Photograph of two men and eleven women posing in stage costumes

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Admission ticket for the Second Annual Monterey Jazz Festival

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Skirt from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

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Metal file box from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Program for Club Ebony

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Gelatin silver print of Monk Montgomery singing and playing the guitar

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Tintype of a man in bow tie and waistcoat

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Triangular rhinestone jewelry clip from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Business cards from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pink cotton velvet fabric from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Journalist pass for the 2012 Democratic National Convention owned by Jim Vance

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Curtain rods from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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<I>Open Door Revival: Healing Time Testimonies</I>

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Photograph of Jean Stridiron at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Photograph of unidentified Pittsburgh-based member of I.B.P.O.E.W. in regalia

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Ambrotype of a young woman holding two white children

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Carte-de-visite of an unidentified young man with a canteen and holding a valise

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Sugar cane cutter

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Lipstick container lid from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>Ruins of the Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21</I>

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Tintype depicting woman in white shawl

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Photograph of The Henry LeTang Dancers at Club 845

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Shutter hook from Charleston, South Carolina

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Photograph of Frances Albrier wearing a hat

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Butchering stick

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Mbira and acoustic transducer owned by Pete Cosey

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Pinback button supporting Oprah Winfrey as John Kerry’s running mate

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Yellow faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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Negative of Polk Fountain

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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US Olympic patch owned by Marilyn White

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Brick from a cistern found at Florida A&M University

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Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton and Grover Allen

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Black diamond shape pillbox with veil

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Carte-de-visite of a woman with a young boy

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Photograph of majorettes and a marching band

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Chromogenic print of a man

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Lectern used by Barack Obama to accept the Democratic nomination for president

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Hafltone print portrait of an unidentified soldier

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<I>Theater Workshop, "Smiles" Sequence</I>

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<I>Mute Evidence of Destruction - Dummies Along Springfield Ave</I>

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Iron lock and set of keys owned by members of the Ellis family

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Brick with an egg and dart pattern

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Photograph of Charles Linton

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Shirt worn by Spike Lee as Mookie in the film Do the Right Thing

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Framed profile of a woman in a pink dress from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Photograph of six people standing at a tailor shop’s front counter

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Pennant for the Philadelphia Stars

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French manilla

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Dance rattle

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Wooden fork

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Green and beige plaid opera coat with ruffles

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Upright acoustic double bass owned by Stanley Clarke

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First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

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Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform

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Set of five photographic negatives in a paper envelope

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Photographic print of children playing on a sidewalk

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Daguerreotype of a boy holding a white baby

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Pink velveteen hat with purple feathers

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Photographic print of a man in military uniform

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Sixteen-patch scrap quilt with feed sack backing

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Photograph of Suliaman El-Hadi and Jalal Nuriddin

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Plastic spoon utensil with elongated handle used by Herman Wallace

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Jig doll in the form of a caricatured porter

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Photographic print of four women sitting on a couch

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Program for the funeral service of Benjamin E. Hall

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Pair of round pink rhinestone earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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High crowned fur cap with giraffe print

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Photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Shako used by Florida A&M University Marching Band

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>Shooting Family Sequence</I>

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Diploma cover for Booker T. Washington High School's Willie Williams

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Shoe brush owned by Cab Calloway

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Purple hat with rhinestone star

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Crochet cap with leather flowers

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Lace doily from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Print of Cab Calloway and dancers performing

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Landscape photograph of Cumberland River

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Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama

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Shuck mop

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Chromogenic print of two women sitting and one woman standing behind them

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Pinback button reading "Blackness is Together! Are You?"

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Tintype of Andy Wilson, a "contraband" servant during the Civil War

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Photograph of Mae & Joel Reeves holding two young children

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Photographic print of Samuel M. Jackson sitting at the kitchen table

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Gelatin silver print of Paul Monday playing the piano

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Metal boot hooks with wood handles

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Red felt bag for gavel used by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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Pair of black half hose from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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<I>Gladys Bentley: America's Greatest Sepia Player -- The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs</I>

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Black plastic buckle from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Flower petal pillbox hat with netting

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Ten shards of stained glass

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Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and an unidentified woman and man

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Photographic print unidentified military men

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Photograph of the Rose Buds performing at the Rose Room

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Photographic postcard of unidentified child

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Washcloth from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Hook

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Debarking tool head

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Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of a man

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Metal container with floral decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photo of a group of people having a picnic

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Pendant with a female symbol

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<I>Crowd gathered outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church after the first birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

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Corner étagère from the Rock Rest Tourist home

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Photograph of the construction on Roger Williams University’s Phillips Hall

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Photographic postcard of a man in a suit

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Badge for a representative of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

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Magazine clipping of a Dizzy Gillespie portrait

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Photograph of B.C. Franklin, I.H. Spears, and Effie Thompson

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Pin for a life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform

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Photograph of Eliza Stephens, Florence Stephens Bryant, and other family members

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Flier for “NYC Fresh Fest IV” in Buffalo, New York

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photograph of the Hall Johnson Choir

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Wood spatula

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Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

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Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Printed paisley velveteen waistcoat

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Letter opener owned by the Terrell family

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Collection of small amber beads

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Pin for space shuttle mission STS-47

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Pendant for an Alpha Kappa Alpha member's diamond anniversary

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Postcard with color image of men scraping rosin gum trees

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Pinback button for the Congress of Racial Equality

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Usher badge from New Bethany Baptist Church

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Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and George Mitchell, Jr., Esq.

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Floor lamp and shade used by Sarah E. Wright

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Tintype of John Walls

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Pinback button with the slogan "Control Your Local Police"

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Tintype of a man

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Photograph of Mae Reeves and an unidentified woman

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Brick

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Photographic postcard of unidentified woman holding a travel bag

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Photograph of a baby wearing dark colored clothing sitting in a chair

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Gold belt with ODV personalized belt plate worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Photograph of Carl Lewis with his fourth gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics

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<I>NO 47-X JESS STAHL ON SHARKEY BURNS ORE 1924</I>

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Mug and lid for "Jolly Boy Black Tea" depicting a “picaninny” boy

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Cotton flax straightener

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Broadside for sale of enslaved woman and children from estate of Joseph McCoy

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Photograph of a family posing in front of a house

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Photographic print of a woman posing outdoors in front of a flower vase

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Black beaded collar from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Gold and white beaded earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tintype of a man

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Bag of red and black checker pieces used by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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US Forest Service uniform pants worn by Melody Starya Mobley

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>15th Amendment, or the Darkey's Millennium, 40 Acres of Land and a Mule</I>

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Shoe shine brush used by the Pullman Palace Car Company

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Three packets of buttons from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Gladys Bentley

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Gray dress with draped shawl collar

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Brown straw sun hat

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Negative of Dr. Arthur M. Townsend sitting next to a sapling

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Gelatin silver print of Mississippi flood, showing train tracks in a rural area

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Pinback button for the Black National Political Convention

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Pinback button advertising Sunset Books

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Chromogenic print of Eunice Jackson exercising

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Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

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Photographic print of four women standing in a street

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Powder horn carved with the name of Revolutionary War soldier Prince Simbo

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Poster for Mattiwilda Dobbs performance

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Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles

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Photographic postcard of an unidentified victim of Tulsa Race Massacre

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Photographic print of a group of people gathered around a bar

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Bolt of black tulle fabric from Mae's Millinery Shop

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American Campaign Medal owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

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Coin bank in the form of a caricatured boy

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Photographic print of Maxine Sullivan and a group of five unidentified men

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Photograph of a woman

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Basket for carrying cotton

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Dark brown straw hat with black ribbon

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Wood plane

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Photograph of a house with a second house in the background

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Two pieces of scrap fabric from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Carved wooden walking cane owned by Sen. W. Nash

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Photograph of First AME Church choir on the steps of the church

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Photograph of a man in a suit

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Photographic print of a performance by Melvin Harris and the Blue Notes

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Promotional card for the The Shipmates & Ginger

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Black beaded accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of unidentified woman at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Photograph of Augusta Savage's sculpture, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)

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Lobby card for the film Juke Joint

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Satin clothes hanger owned by Billie Holiday

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Pinback button for the play Tapman

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Photographic print of young boy standing in front of a car

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Photographic print of Joe Louis with unidentified woman

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Bifocal sunglasses and case owned by Herman Wallace

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Wicker rocking chair from Shearer Cottage

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Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Gelatin silver print of Carl Lewis with his sister and father

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Coin bank in the form of "Uncle Mose"

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Photograph of Laura Cathrell and two men

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Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed

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Rhinestone necklace with floral elements from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Ensemble associated with Marian Anderson's 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert

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Photograph of Maud Ariel McKoy, mother of General Colin L. Powell

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Postcard of a nut cake vendor

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Flyer advertising the Black Expo at City Center Theater

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Brick

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Mini sewing kit from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Jacket and pants worn by MC Hammer in music video for "They Put Me in the Mix"

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Photograph of P. T. Miller

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Photograph of a Laura Cathrell and a group of men and women at a party

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Gelatin silver print of a crowd at the Apollo Theater

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Photograph of Pearl Bailey

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Medal for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America

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Cream silk shawl with floral embroidery worn by Madam C.J. Walker

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Poster advertising a Last Poets performance

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Postcard of men branding a cow

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Burl bowl

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Black wig with rainbow accents worn by George Clinton

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Black dress with fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>Mississippi Highwater</I>

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Black and white photograph of Martin Dihigo

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Opera glasses with case belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Funeral Program for August Wilson

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Caftan worn by Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey

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White bow tie worn by Cab Calloway

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Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Tripod hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Apron with fruit bowl appliqué

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Print of Cab Calloway standing in front of a French sign

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<I>Y. S. & P. M. R 20 5-24-1927</I>

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Memorial photograph of the interior of James Baldwin's home in France

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Crochet hook from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Blue net cap with flowers

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Brown bowler with hat band

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Unfinished white buckram hat form from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pastor's chair from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

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Panoramic photograph of workers outside the Grendel Textile Mill

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String holder in the form of “Mammy”

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Pinback button for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign designed by Gail Anderson

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Sitar case owned by Pete Cosey

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Photograph of Frances Albrier in hat and pearls

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Pinback button with the saying "Kiss Me I'm Black"

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Hand colored photograph of Sally Cathrell

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Miniature U.S. Virgin Islands flag owned by Seba Johnson

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Photographic print of Ira Tucker, Sr. and Louise Tucker

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Photograph of Malenda Polk wearing a white, high collar dress.

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Advertising card for the Fleet St. A. M. E. Zion Church in Brooklyn

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<I>Vyse Ave at 178th St, S Bronx March 1988</I>

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Advertisement poster for the Eveready Gospel Singers

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<I>Theater Workshop, "Smiles" Sequence</I>

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Cream hat with asymmetrical brim and feathers

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Photograph of Velma Middleton and Louis Armstrong

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Pair of small taupe gloves with embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Chromogenic print of Eunice Jackson in gym clothes, standing

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Photograph of the Stevens Family outside their home in Linn Creek, Missouri

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Pinback button promoting affirmative action

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Photographic portrait of Earle Hyman

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Photograph of a group of people playing cards

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Logo pin for Creative Strategies membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Candleholder in the form of a silhouette of a caricatured woman

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Silver hat brush owned by members of the Ellis family

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Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and family

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Photographic print of a young girl

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Striped dress with cowl collar and matching belt

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Quilt in eight pointed star design made by an enslaved person in Georgia

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Novelty hashish apothecary jar owned by Hazel Scott

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Tintype of man and woman in wedding attire

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Red wooden paddle from Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

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Pennant from the March on Washington carried by Edith Lee-Payne

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Black purse with embroidered floral deisgn from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Walnut side chair from the home of Robert Smalls

created

Wooden knife

created

Sash from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Photographic print of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

created

Chromogenic print of a man sitting in a lawn chair

created

Flier for DJ Quik performance in Seattle

created

Photographic print of a young girl

created

Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at family home

created

Photograph of a man and a group of women

created

Photographic print of a dog

created

Printing plate of Velma Weeks

created

Tintype of a man

created

Photograph of a man speaking at an Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

created

Coffee grinder owned by Cornelia Wallis

created

Hand forged copper pot

created

Photographic postcard featuring headshot of a man

created

Flier for "The Great DJ-MC Academy Awards Show" at the Audubon Grand Ballroom

created

Hand-cut silhouette of Flora, a woman enslaved in Connecticut

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Photograph of entertainers at Golden Gate International Exposition World's Fair

created

Photograph of men herding cattle in a field

created

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim

created

Rose pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Brick

created

Piecework quilt in saw design made by enslaved persons in Montgomery, Alabama

created

Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt

created

Black velvet dress with gold sequin skirt worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Photograph of men playing football

created

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

created

British manilla

created

<I>Away Down Among "de Cotton and de Coons," Louisiana, U.S.A.</I>

created

Evening gown belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of two baseball players, two women, and a third man

created

Advertisement card for Rev. S. M. Malone

created

Amulet in the form of miniature shackles

created

Photographic print of Emmett Ashford umpiring

created

Pinback button featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

created

Oyster knife

created

Photograph of Eva Northrup on the plantation where Harriet Tubman was enslaved

created

Identification button used by Thomas Porter II

created

Pinback button for Frank Barbaro's Mayoral campaign

created

Tintype of a woman wearing a striped dress with flowers in her hair

created

Velvet clutch evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Tintype of a woman

created

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

created

<I>Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless</I>

created

Chair used by General Colin L. Powell as Secretary of State

created

Photograph of Birdie Warfield Edison an unidentified man seated at a bar

created

Pickaxe head

created

Poster for a Lena Horne performance at the Olympia Music Hall

created

Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

created

Alpha Kappa Alpha jacket owned by Sarah Clark

created

Red tie with Peanuts characters worn by Eddie Robinson

created

Photograph of A. J. Wiseman

created

Marriage Certificate of Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins

created

Black and white photograph of Lucille Armstrong viewing the bust of Eubie Blake

created

Pinback button for a college Black Student Union

created

Collar owned by Harriet Tubman

created

Sign from a segregated bus station in Birmingham, Alabama

created

Ku Klux Klan robe from the Wilds Family Plantation

created

Chair belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Lapel button from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign

created

Tintype of a woman in hat and dress

created

Hiring agreement for an enslaved woman named Martha in South Carolina

created

GAR 1890 Boston National Encampment medallion owned by Marquis Peterson

created

Photo of a woman standing on boardwalk

created

Crew jacket worn by Bob Minor on the set of Posse

created

Silk wedding dress worn by Magdalene Hendricks Boozé

created

Green faux pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Mr. J. E. Edwards, Choir Director of First AME

created

Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett

created

Photograph of the Gilliard family

created

Diary from 1973

created

Pinback button for Marlene Johnson

created

Badge from the1952 Grand Master Conference of Prince Hall Masons

created

Cut pile rug from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

created

Pair of gray athletic socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Chest of drawers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Autographed Playbill for A Raisin in the Sun

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

<I>Horace Henry</I>

created

Bag of red checkers pieces used by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

<I>26. - Type de Mulâtresse de la Martinique</I>

created

Digital image of Eddie Faye Gates, Johnnie Cochran, and Kevin Jerome Gates

created

Tintype of Henry Hovington

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic postcard of Sally Cathrell, a man and a woman

created

Pinback button for United Mutual Life Insurance Company

created

Family portrait of George and Adaline Bryant with four of their sons

created

Photographic print of 3 men and woman posing in indoor setting

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<I>Rehearsing "Smiles" Sequence</I>

created

Photograph of Colin Powell in Army fatigues with fellow soldiers

created

Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier standing in front of a window

created

Pith helmet hat from Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

created

Pinback button promoting the National Rainbow Coalition

created

Lantern slide of a man on a rearing horse

created

Pocket knife from pilot survival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

created

Boxer shorts owned by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

Tintype of an unidentified Union soldier

created

Hand colored photograph of a woman

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Photographic postcard of a man in studio holding a rope tied in a lasso

created

Group portrait of the Samuel Huston College women's basketball team

created

Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton

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<I>Evisu Ball, Manhattan, NY, 2010</I>

created

Flier for “10 Years of Hip Hop 1973-1983” designed by Van Silk

created

Barstool with black vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Rhinestone butterfly brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pink lace flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

<I>Street Leland, Miss. 4-30-27</I>

created

Bombadier wings owned by Fenton B. Sands

created

Red and black nine patch quilt

created

Photographic postcard of an unidentified victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Pinback button for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign

created

Pass for the North Sea Jazz Festival used by Ira Tucker

created

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson posing outside

created

Officer of the Guard order issued to John H. Alexander

created

Scrimshaw etched with patriotic theme owned by John Wesley Cromwell

created

Photographic print of a man and woman outdoors sharing a chair

created

Photograph of Eartha Kitt

created

Photographic print of a large group of people posing outside of a house

created

Flier for "It's Buck Jump Time" hip-hop event in New Orleans

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell and two female performers in costume

created

Photographic print of a seated unidentifed man

created

Group of feathers from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Colonoware pot from Cooper River, Charleston County, SC

created

Silver box from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

"Sorry We're Closed" sign from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic postcard of World War I soldier named Fred Christman

created

Pinback button featuring Martin Luther King Jr.

created

Box containing monogrammed playing cards owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Pennant for the Zeta Phi Beta sorority's 45th Boulé

created

<I>Paterson City Club vs. "Cuban Stars"</I>

created

Program for the Seventh Province Annual Field Days in Monroe County, New York

created

Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers

created

Brown leather pouch owned by Suliaman El-Hadi

created

Spool of pink yarn from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Logo pin for Job Corps membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

created

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier with hat, trumpet, mandolin, and cartridge belt

created

Pink and gold ceramic ashtray from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Geometric floral and paisley printed handbag with bamboo handle

created

Peach fabric clutch with gold clasp used by Precola DeVore Parks

created

Poster for a concert at Club Paradise in Memphis

created

Poster from Women's March on Washington with "I March for Rosie Jimenez"

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman posed in front of a pool

created

Photographic print of a young boy

created

Journalist pass for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration owned by Jim Vance

created

First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of Gen. Powell's swearing in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

created

Fan advertising the American Beach Negro Ocean Playground

created

Photographic print postcard of a baby on a blanket

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Photograph of Cameron Scott Falkener

created

Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção

created

Schematic drawing of stage requirements for The Jackson Five

created

Three blackface masks

created

Brochure for the traveling exhibition "Grace Before Dying"

created

Branding iron with "V" head

created

Ancient Order of Hibernians medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

<I>Activism</I>

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of Jimmie Jones

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign reading "Librarians for Obama"

created

Gelatin silver print of Jimmie Gorham and his Orchestra

created

Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend on a ship

created

Drawer sachet from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Photographic print of a woman and child

created

Photograph of a female performer in costume

created

Dashiki owned by Margaret Louise Lynch Belcher

created

Flier for "The Imperial Funk Machine" at Bronx River Center

created

Textile made by the Ibo Jewish Community in Nigeria

created

Small flashlight from pilot survival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

created

Carved wooden cane owned by Carl Brashear

created

Wool clothing sample quilt with denim back

created

Pinback button advocating for the SASO 9

created

Tintype of a highly decorated Buffalo soldier

created

<I>The Close of the Battle or the Champion Triumphant</I>

created

Flier for the Zoar M.E Church choir

created

Pinback button from SNCC

created

Photo of Mattiwilda Dobbs and Swedish Queen consort Louise

created

Kissi iron currency

created

Bag for sliding caliper used by Dr. Montague Cobb

created

Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

created

White beaded handbag from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Blue crayon from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Carte-de-visite of an unidentified Union soldier

created

Flier for “Night of the Leather Freaks”

created

White t-shirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

Pinback button of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

created

Photographic print of Ira Tucker and family

created

Pew from the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

created

<I>Miniature Black Madonna</I>

created

White knit gloves

created

Cream lace dress with matching belt and broach

created

Knife from the Tubman household

created

Photograph of a performance with a band, dancers, and singer

created

Wicker chair from Shearer Cottage

created

Wooden knife

created

Black half hose from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Carte-de-visite of a man

created

Landscape photographof the bank of Cumberland River

created

Photographic print of Henry L. Oliver and two men standing in hats and overcoats

created

Photograph of North Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Cabinet card of a newspaper carrier

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Purple leather trousers worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic

created

<I>Vicksburg 5-3-27</I>

created

Flag for Alpha Kappa Alpha

created

Flier in memory of Freddie Gray

created

Photograph of Lieutenant Vernon O. Nicolls and Edith Nicolls

created

Notebook owned by Maxine Sullivan

created

Tintype of a man

created

Memorial card of President John F. Kennedy from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pair of blue dress socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Printing plate of Jene Smook

created

Pinback button for education activism

created

Flyer announcing a demonstration on African Liberation Day

created

Bottle tag from the Cotton Club

created

Pink rhinestone choker necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Tintype of a man

created

Ribbon for Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 10461

created

White knit hat with flowers

created

Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of the bodies of Nease Gillespie, John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham

created

Bully beef can opener

created

Photograph of women inside the Citizenship Education Project office

created

Pair of light pink gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Door with "WHITES ONLY" lettering

created

Photographic postcard of a man in a double-breasted jacket

created

Hydrangea faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Signed poster reading "Georgia Thrives With Abrams"

created

Lafayette College Medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Metal hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph album of Allston family and other portraits

created

Photograph of two men seated on horseback

created

Gray bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Belt from an S1W uniform

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

<I>Mr. Jackson bedridden, family in attendance</I>

created

Tintype of a woman

created

Halter top worn by Janet Jackson in "Got 'til It's Gone" music video

created

<I>John A. Raub store, Little Eagle, S.D.</I>

created

Woman's black lace fan owned by members of the Ellis family

created

Puppet with stand in the form of a caricatured man

created

Funeral program of Samuel D. Hooker, Jr.

created

<I>New York Awards Ball, Brooklyn, NY, 2000</I>

created

Neon sign from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

White cotton children's dress

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of Regina Egertion Wright with Colored Training School diploma

created

Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing during a recording session

created

Rainbow wig worn by George Clinton

created

Stockpot used to cook collard greens at the Florida Avenue Grill

created

<I>Filling Silo HCC-10-2-11</I>

created

Wire bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Advertisement tag for the Homestead Grays vs. New York Cubans baseball game

created

Photograph of two men on horseback on a hilltop

created

Corner stool from Dundee's 5th St. Gym

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Photograph of a man

created

Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Flier for “The Sprite New York City Fresh Festival II”

created

Shoehorn owned by Cab Calloway

created

Long johns worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

<I>Eunice Jackson at 100th birthday celebration</I>

created

Photograph of Dr. Ubert Vincent and Bobby Rylandat the Cosmopolitan Tenn

created

Army green duffle bag owned by General Colin L. Powell

created

Dipper with wood handle

created

Numbered bingo chips from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Beret from the Black Power era

created

Photograph of Thomas Smith at base camp with inscription on back

created

T-shirt featuring Black Lives Matter graphic

created

Photograph of Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica

created

<I>Al Smith's Last Prayer</I>

created

Photograph of three soldiers during World War II era

created

Klu Klux Klan hood with mask

created

Photographic print of Harper Franklin, Beatrice Coleman and Beatrice Dedman

created

Rhinestone bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Floral sweater pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Yazoo City Pan. J8</I>

created

Photomechanical print of Jackie Robinson on Brooklyn Dodgers opening day in 1947

created

Broadaxe head

created

Mask shaped sign used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, LA

created

White sequined cardigan from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Tie dye dress belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Entrenching tool

created

Tintype of George H. Mitchell

created

<I>Beatrice Coleman and Beatrice Dedman</I>

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with “...I’m an Immigrant and an American"

created

Photographs of First AME Altar Boys

created

Chromogenic print of twenty (20) women and eight (8) men posing outside

created

Copy work photo print of an autographed Vincent Chin and Fats Domino photograph

created

Throw pillow from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Novelty curare apothecary jar owned by Hazel Scott

created

Drafting compass owned by Julian Abele Cook Sr.

created

Photographic print of Custom Craft Studio

created

Photograph of Arthur Melvin Townsend in front of a barn

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell, Birdie Warfield Edison, and an unidentified man

created

<I>Melvin Van Peebles</I>

created

Photograph of a large group of people seated and standing around a table

created

British brass-barreled blunderbuss

created

Brick

created

Ku Klux Klan cape

created

Photographic postcard of Pullman Porter, Omer Ester and his wife Jean

created

Photograph of five men wearing baseball uniforms

created

Glass stemware with gold decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Ruins of the Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21</I>

created

Flier for “The First Winter Super Fest”

created

Photograph of school children with their teacher

created

Field whip

created

Photograph of a man, Julian, a woman, Chickie Collins, and two men

created

Flier for Roxanne Shanté performance in London

created

Pinback button for Black Solidarity Day

created

Digital print of Mae Reeves & Donna Limerick

created

Photograph of a female performer in costume

created

Photograph of a woman in a fur coat

created

Pastry jagger

created

Bugle

created

Photograph of the Scoby Browne Quartet autographed by "Duke"

created

Yellow blouse with floral brocade and sheer raglan sleeves

created

Tintype of two women

created

Stockpot used to cook collard greens at the Florida Avenue Grill

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Bifocals worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

Chromogenic print of S.M. Jackson with great nephews the Jackson 5

created

Advertisement for WLAC-TV Eyewitness News at 10

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Sign that reads "Standing My Ground 4 Trayvon"

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

created

Open weave straw hat

created

Pinback button promoting the March on Washington

created

Bumper sticker endorsing Carl Stokes for Mayor of Cleveland

created

Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case

created

Photograph of Wellington and Wilma Webb walking in a parade

created

Container of spare parts from a drafting tool kit used by John S. Chase

created

Cream sequin and beaded top

created

Photographic print of a group of 14 men and 2 women

created

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

created

Laminated newspaper clipping of the obituary for Mr. S.M. Jackson

created

Jacket associated with Marian Anderson's 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert

created

Pinback button for Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential primary campaign

created

Balloon-back side chair from the home of Robert Smalls

created

Newspaper clippings about Old Calabar

created

<I>Vicksburg 5-3-27</I>

created

Pink hat with two-tone panels

created

Cosmetic case owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Photograph of Moral Re-Armament Assembly of Nations attendees

created

Photographic print of a woman on a brick wall

created

Embosser used by Claflin University

created

Ku Klux Klan parade banner from Derry, New Hampshire

created

Albumen print of Isaiah White

created

<I>Activism</I>

created

Carte-de-visite of Marquis Peterson

created

Business card owned by Dwayne McDuffie

created

Advertisement card for a Sunday School Rally in Detroit, Michigan

created

Photograph of unidentified child at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Pinback button with a black panther on it, from the MMM 20th Anniversary

created

Print of Pullman Porter James Bryant in uniform

created

Brass colored metal belt buckle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>History of Jazz with Willis Conover</I>

created

Photograph of African Americans being detained during the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Table top sign for Fall Fashion Favorites from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat

created

Sculpture in the form of a caricatured man standing on a watermelon slice

created

Banjo case for Charles P. Stinson banjo

created

Communion cup used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

created

Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

created

Catcher's mitt used by Roy Campanella

created

Photographic postcard of unidentified child

created

Ornate metal and glass perfume bottle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Spool of cream yarn from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Poster from a boxing match between Sugar Ray Robinson and Ralph Dupas

created

Photographic print of an African American soldier standing at attention

created

Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina

created

Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

created

Photographic print of Joseph S. Williams sitting on a chair, right leg crossed

created

Purple pleated hat with three-looped bow

created

Storage ottoman from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Thimble from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Leather bag with tools, whistles, and shells

created

Turquoise sleeveless dress with flower embroidery

created

Rice fanner basket

created

<I>The Renowned Dr. J. DeKoven Killingsworth, conducting the Clark College Philharmonic Society</I>

created

Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with two unidentified women

created

Theatre program for Othello

created

License Plate with the slogan "Stop Busing our Children"

created

Photographic postcard of four unidentified men

created

Sixteen assorted buttons from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Black and white photograph of George Foreman

created

Photographic postcard of two WWI soldiers

created

Dining room table from the home of Lucinda Todd

created

Ashtray in the form of a “picaninny” boy eating a watermelon slice

created

Three red car bows from the car giveaway episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show

created

<I>Dr. Ralph Abernathy addresses the audience inside Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

created

Photograph of an unidentified man holding a saber

created

Straw hat with multicolored embroidery

created

<I>Leland, Miss. 4-30-27</I>

created

Printing plate of Yvonne Gholston

created

Marriage certificate with tintypes of Augustus L. Johnson and Malinda Murphy

created

Photographic print of Dizzy Gillespie, from Perkins

created

Coin bank in the form of a caricatured boy

created

Sign for authorized agent of Mme. C.J. Walker's

created

Colonoware pot from Cooper River, Charleston County, SC

created

Pink oval doily from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Sheer dickey owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Multicolored faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Flier for “Cold Crusher” at The Riverboat

created

Army White Dress uniform trousers worn by General Colin L. Powell

created

Rope used in the lynching of Raymond Byrd

created

Cream dress with floral lace and embroidery

created

Pinback button commemorating the March on Washington

created

Gelatin silver print of a woman, Wilma, leaning on a column

created

Silk handkerchief from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Coquina fragment

created

Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

created

Photograph of Edith Nicolls

created

Framed photograph of unidentified WWI soldier

created

Promotional photo of Cab Calloway in a white tuxedo

created

Pinback button featuring "I Believe Anita Hill"

created

Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Pinback button with "I'm Black and Proud" slogan

created

Oyster jar from the Thomas Downing oyster house

created

Pinback button celebrating Kwanzaa

created

Army patrol cap worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

created

Flier for “Benefit Show for Police Athletic League Hip Hop Showdown” by Van Silk

created

Photograph of five performing showgirls

created

Photographic postcard of two WWI soldiers standing in front of a tent

created

Beaded floral sheath dress worn by Dinah Washington

created

Pendant for the centennial celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Pinback button for a panel of teenage pregnancy prevention

created

Land conveyance by Heber and Hager Honestman, a free Black couple

created

Electrified backlit sign with National Council for Black Studies logo

created

Photograph of Harry "Sweets" Edison with a group of men

created

<I>GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7</I>

created

Chair from Metropolitan AME

created

University of San Francisco jersey worn by Ollie Matson

created

Photograph of theatre production with blackface actors and Oliver Howard Horner

created

Photograph of objects on the mantelpiece inside James Baldwin's house

created

Cased ambrotype of an unidentified woman

created

Cast iron dictionary stand used by Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman

created

Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham Lincoln

created

Pinback button featuring Malcolm X

created

Tintype of a woman standing with parasol

created

Pinback button for the New York Black Yankees

created

Shield-shaped identification pin for William H. Clay

created

Plastic and metal vest from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman wearing glasses

created

Gelatin silver print of Rosita "Chicken" Lockhart with autograph

created

Leather belt worn by Melody Starya Mobley

created

Silver container and lid owned by members of the Ellis family

created

Broadside offering reward for capture of George, Jefferson, Esther, and Amanda

created

<I>Para votaren Ausencia en Virginia</I>

created

Arbeidernes TIF medal owned by Eulace Peacock

created

Venetian glass trade beads

created

Pair of white floral clips from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic print of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

created

Patch commemorating Lockland Wayne 1952 state champion basketball team

created

Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

created

Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway

created

Albumen photograph of Wild West Performers

created

Bass drum from the 25th Infantry Band

created

Papier-mâché minstrel face mask from Spell #7

created

Tintype of a portrait of man

created

Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim

created

Cream satin collar with beaded embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Schedule of courses for Black and Puerto Rican Studies

created

Program for Fred Robbins' One-Nite Stand

created

Dressing Table from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Banner for Father Divine

created

<I>Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.</I>

created

<I>Young Antonio Valor Brotherman: Revelation</I>

created

<I>Robinson-Turpin 1</I>

created

Placard reading "Stand Against War & Racism"

created

Ambrotype of Elisa Greenwell with handwritten note

created

Quilt with Drunkard's Path variation blocks hand pieced and hand quilted

created

Photograph of a woman, Jean

created

Photograph of a Wellington Webb T-shirt draped on a Webb yard sign

created

Hay rake

created

Butter scoop

created

Pinback button for New Jesrsey Anti-Apartheid Mobilization

created

Company contract for Poro College

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

Photograph of members of 20th Engineer Brigade at a mess tent in Vietnam

created

Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa

created

Printing plate of an unidentified woman

created

Friends of the Black Oscar Nominees Award received by Cab Calloway

created

Bar of soap from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Seven piece place setting of stainless steel flatware sold by Salaam

created

Photograph of the body of a man killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana

created

Gray beaded capelet with fur collar and trim

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Envelope for a letter from Afro-American Newspapers to Rev. V. Stokes

created

Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II and another soldier in Vietnam

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Journalist pass for Nelson Mandela's State Funeral owned by Jim Vance

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Flier for “Black History Month Annual Cultural Freebee Jam” by Kool Lance

created

Clock worn by Flavor Flav

created

Photograph of Ghanaian parilamentarians at the MRA Assembly of Nations

created

Sleigh bells owned by Pete Cosey

created

Photographic print of the Scurlock family in Atlantic City

created

Dark grey prison issue beanie worn by Herman Wallace

created

Poster for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization

created

Group portrait Tuskegee Airmen from page 19 of album of Lewis C. Smith

created

Chromogenic print of an elderly woman sitting in a chair

created

Iron collar and key

created

Baseball Card of Martín Dihigo

created

Torn sales book cover from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Metal hatpin with stacked rhinestones and pearls from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a WHK microphone

created

Hats off to Mae! event announcement

created

Photographic print of two women

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Pink and white flower hat

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Emergency hook blade from pilot survival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

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Four lengths of white lace trim from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Printing plate of Roy Wilkins

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Brick

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Wooden mallet

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Pink faux patent leather purse from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Print of M. G. Sishuba

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<I>Crowd singing We Shall Overcome inside Ebenezer Baptist Church during first birthday celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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1950 Ring Magazine Heavyweight Championship Belt awarded to Ezzard Charles

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Pennant for the Cincinnati Clowns

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Print of D. W. Bloodworth

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Advertisement card for Rev. J. H. Smith

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Pinback button with “Asian-American and Pacific Islanders for Stacey Abrams”

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Photographic portrait of a man wearing hat and gun holster

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<I>Birdsong Camp at Cleveland, Miss 4-29-27</I>

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Tintype of a girl

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Printing plate of Bob Wilson

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Dance rattle

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Snuff stick

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Conductor's baton used by James DePreist

created

Identification tag for Cornelius Robinson, with American eagle

created

Photograph of Junior champions at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Butterfly pin with rhinestones and faux pearls from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pink fur hat

created

Framed photographs of Chano Pozo inscribed to Ray Barretto

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell, a woman, and two horses

created

Photograph of Margaret DeLorme and Waldo C. Falkener, Jr.

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Albumen print of 23rd United States Colored Troops (USCT) Officers

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Photograph of a Dr. A. M. Townsend standing in front of a bridge

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<I>Untitled (photograph from the Film & Photo League Archive)</I>

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Baton owned by a Cab Calloway

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<I>Colored Troops Returning From France on the S.S. Aquitaine, New York</I>

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Reversible strip quilt made from clothing fabrics

created

Gold and pearl brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Bell from the Holloway Plantation

created

Brick

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Platter cover

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Resin scorer

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Taupe bonnet with cross-stitched brim worn by the enslaved woman Martha Barnes

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Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing during a recording session

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Photograph of Laura Fitzpatrick at age 16 leaning on half wall

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Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier standing in front of a painted background

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Tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Insignia from the 24th Infantry Regiment, Company C

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Pin for the 758th Tank Battalion owned by Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls

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Wooden box used for storing trimming supplies from Mae's Millinery Shop

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TIC Kit used by Dr. Ben Carson

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Carte-de-visite portrait of William Henry Channing

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Photograph of Mae Reeves, Donna Limerick, and family at a wedding

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Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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Price list for Poro beauty products

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<I>Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.</I>

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Photographic postcard portrait of two men in Western attire

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Walnut armchair from the home of Robert Smalls

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Military uniform belt worn by General Colin L. Powell

created

Pinback button with "Free All Political Prisoners" slogan

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Photograph of men, women, and children outside

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Logo pin for Personal Involvement Now membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Photographic print of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Printing plate of Elaine Sherrill

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Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car

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Photographic print of Emmett Ashford umpiring

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Jeans worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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Shirt worn by Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

created

Gelatin silver print of four men singing into a microphone

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Pin from the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity

created

Black necktie with gold beading worn by LaMonte McLemore of The 5th Dimension

created

Venetian glass trade beads

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Tintype of a woman in blouse and skirt

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Photographic print of a man

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Bowler hat and band for Ain't Misbehavin act II costume worn by André De Shields

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Ice bucket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Broadside for Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight known as "Thrilla in Manila"

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Long handled cane cutter

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<I>Scene at Convention Hall (Tulsa Race Riot June 1st 1921)</I>

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Crown tie tack worn by Reverend Ike

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Souvenir medal commemorating World War I

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Purple dress with white embroidery and matching shawl

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Patch for the Special Services Division

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Free paper for Elizabeth Only

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Memorial ribbon for George Fisher used by G.U.O.O.F

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French Adrian Helmet

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Chromogenic print of the Cloman family sitting around dinner table

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Tintype of Emmaline

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Printing plate of Jacqueline Le Protti

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Flyer advertising student strike against the Vietnam War

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Pinback button promoting the Sixth Pan African Congress

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Tintype of Bayard Sodon

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Warm up jacket worn by Jerry Armstrong for Texas Western

created

Photograph of Dreamland Theater being rebuilt following the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Autograph written by Cassius Clay

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Postcard of a banana and pineapple vendor

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Clothing label for Mae Reeves from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church

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Advertisement card for Lenten Services at Plymouth Congregational Church

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Photograph of Roseller T. Lim, Urho Kaenoenen, and Eyo Ita

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Gold metal scrollwork jewelry box from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Briana Scurry

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The Links Foundation Pin

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Pin for National President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Photographic print of a young boy

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Photographic print of 9 children standing outside

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U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Rhinestone necklace with ball ends from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of an unidentified family

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Faux pearl and rhinestone earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Off-white thread-wrapped wire from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day

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Poster promoting March and Rally for Peace, April 27, 1968

created

Hollow-cut silhouette of member of the Dickey family, likely Samuel

created

Photograph of a group of female performers in costume

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Stove bucket

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Cape from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

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<I>Florida, The Land of Flowers and Tropical Scenery.</I>

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Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

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Photograph of three people in the garden at Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Rice sickle with wooden handle

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Orange belt with black fringe

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Yellow feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

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Wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Knit shorts worn by Herman Wallace

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and Mamie Maria posing in front of a tree

created

Photographic postcard of friends of Florence Stephens Bryant

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Pinback button for a Freedom Ride organized by CORE

created

Rice sickle from Awendaw, South Carolina

created

Photograph of Betty Bryant in Wichita, Kansas in front of North High School

created

<I>Community Film Showing</I>

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of Nancy M. Johnson

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White and pink ceramic pitcher from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Handheld broom from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of three buildings in Clarksville, Tennessee

created

Blue silk dupioni dress and jacket

created

Pitchfork from the Chicora Wood Plantation

created

Metal hearth griddle

created

Pair of handsewn leather shoes

created

Arbeidernes TIF medal owned by Eulace Peacock

created

Side table with glass top from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographs of two (2) unidentified women

created

European glass trade beads

created

Photograph of a group of people seated at a booth

created

Photographic print of a woman and child posing on the steps of a train

created

Black and white photograph of Roy Campanella

created

Flier for “Party With The Stars ‘83’” at the Biltmore Theatre

created

Fur stole worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Photographic postcard of an unidentified young boy

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Uniform for Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class

created

Negative of woman leaning against tree

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Marten fur stole worn by Dinah Washington

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Photograph of Hazel Scott performing with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra

created

Bean bag toss board depicting a caricature of a clown

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Pork pie hat for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Mortar and pestle for pounding grain

created

Pinback button of Jackie Robinson with baseball charm and ribbon

created

Picture postcard of the Putney 91 Motor Inn sent to Paula Morris

created

Polaroid of Julius Carry and stunt double as Sho'Nuff

created

Dues and finance report

created

Pinback button with the slogan "Live the Legacy"

created

Snuff stick

created

Movie still of Etta Moten Barnett singing The Carioca

created

Photocopy of a photograph of Pete Cosey performing with a jazz ensemble

created

Tintype of a woman in a checked dress

created

I.A.C. medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

<I>Vicksburg 5-3-27</I>

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Thirty-eight buttons from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

String of large coral beads

created

Souvenir program for Wilma Rudolph Day

created

Pair of sheer white gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Ticket for Prospect Junior High School graduation

created

Photograph of a man and Laura Cathrell

created

Wood bowl

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Pink raffia and velveteen headband with veil

created

Advertisement card for Rev. Isaac Toliver

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Laundry pail associated with the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march

created

<I>Class of 1892 Oberlin Academy Preparatory School</I>

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<I>Valley Park, Miss. 5-2-27</I>

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Photograph of a group ten female performers in matching costumes and three men

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Swedish Red Cross Medal of Honor

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Photograph of a man

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Black bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Rope used to lynch Matthew Williams

created

Funeral program of Deaconess Josie Ware Lewis

created

Photographic print of two women wearing dresses and hats

created

Photographic print of an unidentified boy standing in front of a house

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Pinback button for Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign

created

<I>Greenville, Miss. 4-30-27</I>

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Chromogenic print of two men sitting and talking

created

Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor

created

Umbrella used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans

created

Wax flowers worn by Florance Trevor

created

Hollow-cut silhouette of John Miller Dickey

created

Flyer announcing a campaign to support Namibia

created

Photographic print of Ira Tucker, Lynda Laurence and Sundray Tucker

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Broadside for Essex Hemphill poetry reading

created

Pin reading "U.S.A." worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photographic print of Ira Tucker at the Lorraine Motel

created

Lapel pin in shape of gold star owned by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

created

<I>Tuesday Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 5</I>

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Photographic print of a group of people in eveningwear

created

Handwritten formula for hair grower

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Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

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Drum major baton

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Collar owned by Harriet Tubman

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Identification tags worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

<I>1960Now Portfolio (A): Untitled</I>

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Repurposed lotion tub with items belonging to Herman Wallace

created

<I>V. S. & P. Barnes 5-24-27</I>

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Clothes brush used by Pullman porter Percy Davis

created

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

created

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt

created

Pocket square from a suit worn by Reverend Ike

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of the Rose Buds performing at the Rose Room

created

<I>Recreation Time</I>

created

Photograph of Suliaman El-Hadi

created

Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

created

Black draped hat

created

Photo of the Johnston family

created

Pinback buttons for the Young Workers Liberation League

created

Program from the March on Washington

created

Feather fan owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Negative of Warren County Court House

created

Pinback button from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign

created

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

created

Jockey saddle used by Marlon St. Julien

created

Flier for "Must Be the Music Skate Affair" at the Bronx Skating Rink

created

<I>"A Friend in Army France"</I>

created

Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace

created

<I>Scene from Tulsa Race Riot June 1st 1921</I>

created

Sign in the shape of the letter "B" used in a Black Men of Labor parade

created

Pinback button with the text Triumph

created

Print copy of a photograph of Mae Reeves

created

Tintype of four men smoking cigars

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Plywood panel mural from Resurrection City

created

Crop top worn on Soul Train by dancer Edith Lynn Pickens

created

Pink fabric clutch used by Precola DeVore Parks

created

Silver handbag with beadwork decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Cabinet card of Jane Townsend and LouElla McMurray

created

Grey t-shirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

created

English brick from the Yeamans Hall land grant

created

Plantation kraut cutter

created

Wooden knife

created

Olive branch given to Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics

created

Pinback button worn by Lena Horne at the 1981 Tony Awards

created

Pinback button for Barbara Jordan from the 1992 Democratic National Convention

created

Chromogenic print of the Dyer Memorial Chapel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Caftan belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Uniform for Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class

created

Flier for Tatiana Record Company Summer Moonlight Cruise

created

Tintype of two men seated with legs and arms crossed

created

Ambrotype of three women in dotted calico dresses

created

Six rhinestone button covers from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Black Feeling, Black Talk</I>

created

Souvenir du Carnival, Photograph of French Antillean dress

created

Feather-like gold metal earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Spanish language flier for a March on Washington to overturn the Bakke decision

created

Wooden school bench from the Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

created

Headshot of Hattie McDaniel as "Mammy" from Gone with the Wind

created

Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

created

Black buckram hat form from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Textured bow tie worn by Eugene Allen

created

Spool of green ribbon from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic postcard of an elderly couple sitting on a porch

created

Pinback button with a black panther on it, from the MMM 20th Anniversary

created

Waistcoat for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Belt buckle from White Dog film production owned by Bob Minor

created

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

created

Gray-brown feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

created

Two-man buck saw

created

Pin for American Red Cross Volunteer worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Cream hat with feather decoration

created

Metal and rhinestone buckle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Lollaretta Pemberton

created

Photographic print of Princetta Rudd as a young woman

created

Architectural House Plan and Plumbing Template owned by John Chase

created

Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier

created

Concert poster for Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley in New Orleans

created

Cream fez worn by a member of the Maryland Order of the Eastern Star

created

Accent cabinet from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Table lamp with shade from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman posing in front of a mountain

created

Photograph of an unidentified man addressed to Dr. A. M. Townsend

created

Lafayette College Medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Prayer kneeler from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

created

Photograph of entertainers at Golden Gate International Exposition World's Fair

created

Bar counter from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Daguerreotype of a man in paisley vest

created

Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Photograph of a female dancer in costume

created

Photograph of detained African American men during the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Logo pin for The Founders' Window membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Gelatin silver print of a man holding a pistol

created

Pinback button with the text "Black Roots The Soul Of The Earth"

created

Photographic print of the Scurlock family celebrating a birthday

created

Pinback button for Carl McCall for New York State Comptroller

created

Photograph of a group of women seated at the Rock Rest Tourist Home dinner table

created

Program for a college football game between Wilberforce and Tuskegee, 1944

created

Photo of a woman in fur standing between two men on the sidewalk

created

Photographic postcard of a man

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Broadside for a performance by Madame Sissieretta Jones

created

Photograph of a baby dressed in white and sitting in a chair

created

Civil War-era belt buckle from Point of Pines Plantation

created

Black t-shirt for the band Almost September

created

Silver rhinestone flower accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Press Coverage of First Birthday Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

created

Perfume bottle belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Missouri Democratic Ticket for the United States Presidential Election of 1868

created

Eighteen carriage bells on wire from a plantation near Georgetown South Carolina

created

Framed color photograph of the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's 200M finish line

created

Draw hoe

created

Cauldron

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Brick

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Photograph of Felton W. Williams Jr. playing an electric guitar

created

Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a monument

created

Green and white handkerchief used by Ira Tucker Sr.

created

Button for Student Action

created

British manilla

created

<I>Inside Ebenezer Baptist Church during first memorial to Dr. King, 1969</I>

created

Gelatin silver print of Lead Belly playing the guitar

created

Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee

created

Photographic print of Jack's Memory Chapel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Photograph of Carl Harvey playing Rastacasta electric guitar on stage

created

Printing plate of Elaine Corbin

created

Box of business cards from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button for Vernon's Jerk Paradise Restaurant

created

Tuxedo pants worn by Eugene Allen

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier

created

Delta Air Lines uniform belt worn by Eugene Harmond

created

Yellow crepe scarf with printed violets from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Circular wire with white and red beads from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Square mortar and pestle

created

Photograph of a young man with two dogs

created

Metal pin with flower design from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey

created

Pinback button for the Brownsville Community Council

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell performing on stage

created

Guestbook from Shearer Cottage

created

Black fascinator with faux flowers worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

“55 M.V.I. A Volunteer for Freedom" medal owned by Marquis Peterson

created

Advertisement card for gospel singer Rev. Isaac C. Reddie

created

Photographic postcard of the C. & M. A. Gospel Quintette

created

Photographic print of a man

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Photograph of Felton W. Williams Jr. and Arthur M. Williams playing guitar

created

Brown handbag with amber handle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Brotherman #1 - Cover</I>

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Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren

created

Photographic postcard of a woman named Ida Cox

created

<I>Wellington E. Webb Center for Primary Care Provider Directory</I>

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<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: FAVORITE PASTIME IS A GAME OF CARDS.</I>

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Torah scroll from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Two-man buck saw

created

Tintype of a Civil War soldier

created

Headpiece from Muslim Girls' Training uniform

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic print of Orville and Paula Williams sitting at a table

created

Headscarves worn by Mélisande Short-Colomb at Georgetown University convocation

created

Handwritten narrative of "Uncle Barcus"

created

<I>The Courier-Journal Magazine June 5, 1988</I>

created

Frame with four Confederate States of America miniature flags

created

Romeo costume hose worn by Cab Calloway at the Miami Beach Cotton Club

created

Two clothing labels for Mae Reeves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Flag depicting Martin Luther King Jr.

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Framed photograph portrait of General Colin L. Powell and family

created

Floral embroidered purse used by Dinah Washington

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell, four women, and two men

created

Photograph of Birdie Warfield Edison in a park

created

Photograph of the National Women's champion at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson with her brother, John A. Cloman

created

Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and horse

created

Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend

created

Carte-de-visite of a woman in a checked dress

created

Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Hat with black swirl design and rhinestone pin

created

Sculpture in the form of a caricatured porter holding a tray

created

Poster for the Public Enemy album There's a Poison Goin On

created

Poster advertising a game between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Harlem Stars

created

Thimble from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Box signed by Jimmy Carter housing a cuff link worn by Eugene Allen

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of Miss Thiele

created

Photograph of Carl Harvey playing Rastacasta electric guitar on stage

created

Black velvet hat with bow and feather ornament

created

Photograph of performing showgirls

created

Flemish brick made by an enslaved person

created

Photograph of Charles and Georgia Davis with Arthur and Willa Townsend

created

Pinback button reading "New Jersey Loves Dinkins"

created

Pinback button promoting the Million Family March

created

Pinback button for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of a female performer in costume

created

Photograph of unidentified woman

created

Stereograph of a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic

created

<I>So. of Choctaw, Miss 4-30-27</I>

created

Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke

created

Framed color photograph of the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's 100M finish line

created

Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth

created

<I>Council Women Move Into Final Week of Voters Education</I>

created

Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman

created

Tuxedo studs worn by Eugene Allen

created

Roster for Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry, Second Platoon

created

U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform

created

<I>Cicely</I>

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell and a group of men and women at a party

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Candle snuffer depicting a caricature of a man's head

created

French manilla

created

Hand mirror from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

English brick found in the Heyward Family Cemetery

created

Photograph of the 1960 Olympic Opening Ceremonies owned by Dick Howard

created

Pinback button of Farrakhan quote

created

Carte-de-visite of Frederick Douglass

created

Metal and rhinestone accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Microphone box used by Ralph McDaniels on the television show Video Music Box

created

Photograph studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair

created

String of beads

created

Standing desk from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Althea Gibson standing next to two men shaking hands

created

White petticoat with embroidery and blue ribbon

created

<I>The Birth of Blues</I>

created

Bed frame from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

<I>The People's Uprising, Justice for Breonna Taylor, protesting the decision by the Kentucky grand jury to indict former officers in connection to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, Atlanta, GA.</I>

created

Suspenders for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Postcard of soldiers inspecting horses

created

Pinback button with the text The Spirit of New York

created

Flier for the “Must Be The Music Skate Affair” designed by Eddie Ed

created

Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King, Jr.

created

Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform

created

Spanish colonial document related to slavery in Peru

created

Red wine glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell, a man, and two women at a party

created

Pendant for an Alpha Kappa Alpha member's golden anniversary

created

Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture

created

Boots worn by Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

created

Picture postcard to Doc Anderson Townsend

created

<I>V. S. & P. - M. P. 20 5-24-27</I>

created

Shoulder patch insignia for 92nd Infantry Division

created

Printing plate of Anna Mae Winburn

created

Pinback button for the liberation of Carlos Feliciano

created

Tintype of two children

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A pair of US Army green Service Uniform pants worn by General Colin L. Powell

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<I>Wreath and eternal flame laid in front of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tomb at Southview Cemetery</I>

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Ambrotype of a man

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Pinback button for the CDA Community Staff Action Committee

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Albumen print of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Photograph of Mae Reeves and Donna Limerick as an infant

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Photograph folder

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Award for All-American Band from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Shackles and key

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Gold hat pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of a group of children outside

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Pinback buttons for the National Farm Workers Association

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Venetian glass trade beads

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Light blue geometric patterned hat with veil

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Photographic postcard of five men posing with cigars and handguns

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Pink dress with feather pattern and rhinestones

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Unit badge for Ira Fields of Unassigned Company A of the U.S. Colored Infantry

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Tintype of a woman standing with chair

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Two pairs of arm cuffs and ribbons from the Sho'Nuff costume in The Last Dragon

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Hall table from Shearer Cottage

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Advertisement card for Club 845's Gala Holiday Revue

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Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

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Bumper sticker endorsing Carl Stokes for Mayor of Cleveland

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Portrait of an unidentified Tuskegee Airman in aviation gear

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<I>Mr Isaac Farris Sr., Dr. King's brother-in-law and Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, president of Morehouse College, seated in audience</I>

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Photographic print of William Scott

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Pin for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Ivy Leaf Club

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Venetian glass trade beads

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Film still of Louis Armstrong on the set of "Going Places"

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Photograph of Don Redman and his Orchestra

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<I>Shooting Car Sequence</I>

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Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform

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Purple lipstick container from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Cat o' nine tails planter whip

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Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family

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Photograph of Eva Stewart Northrup in front of Harriet Tubman's house

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US Marine Corps mess dress uniform cummerbund worn by Jesse E. Wrice Jr.

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Photographic postcard of a woman

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Cocktail apron worn by Dinah Washington

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Pinback button featuring Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

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Photographic print of a man and woman outdoors sharing a chair

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<I>Destini Riley, Self Portrait</I>

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Printing plate of two unidentifed men

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Stereograph of a deceased soldier on the battlefield after Gettysburg

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Photograph of Smokey Robinson with Casey Grant and Delta flight attendants

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Pinback button advertisment for StoryCorps

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Photographic postcard of Charles Wilbur Rogan with his unit in the Philippines

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Colonoware pot from Cooper River, Charleston County, SC

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U.S. Virgin Islands Olympic pin owned by Seba Johnson

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Quilt clamp

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Rake used by community members to clean-up after Baltimore protests

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Multi-part hat form used by Yvonne DeVigne

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse

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Socket bayonet modified with a hooked tip

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Pinback button for a March Against Apartheid in New York City

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Coin bank in the form a caricatured man

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Photograph of James Baldwin standing with the owner of his French home

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Photographic print of a sergeant and bride surrounded by wedding guests

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Photograph of a man and young boys in cowboy costumes holding toy guns

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Photograph of a man with a goatee and a dark colored suit

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Wood pestle

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Photograph of a Cab Calloway with six performers

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Rhinestone pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Rhinestone and beaded earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pinback button for the Baltimore Elite Giants

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Tintype of a seated man

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Photograph of DJ Hawk, Roy Hamilton, LaVern Baker, and Rusty Bryant

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Mission style rocking chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção

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Handkerchief with World War II Double V campaign design

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Metal lipstick holder from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Postcard of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie

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String of glass millefiori beads

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White evening dress with metallic and feather accents worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Tintype of a man

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Nation of Islam University of Islam school nurse's uniform worn by Jamilah Sahib

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Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Photograph of brothers Moses, James and Hermon Bryant

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Pink handkerchief with white polka dots from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Prayer rug owned by Imam W.D. Mohammed

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<I>Mourners gathered at Southview Cemetery</I>

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Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School

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Gelatin silver print of four men in tuxedos

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photograph of Chickie Collins with two unidentified female performers in costume

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Theatre program for The Blacks

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Photographic print of Mamie Scurlock

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Sponge from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Twenty-two buttons from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tintype of a child with hat

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Photographic print of a dance class

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British manilla

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Funnel

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Strip quilt of red and black plaid, with lavender, yellow, and pink stripes

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Pinback button promoting SNCC and black power

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Flyer Advertising the Soul Together's Badass Black Festival

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<I>CAPTURED NEGROS ON WAY TO CONVENTION HALL - DURING TULSA RACE RIOT JUNE 1ST 1921</I>

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Bedspread woven in the Catalpa Flower pattern by an enslaved woman

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Cooking pot with handle

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Digital image of a community meeting on the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Red faux flower hat

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Fourteen newspaper and magazine clippings from the walls of Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>3 Locomotives under Water 1 1/2 Miles East of Greenville</I>

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Healing doll

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Pinback button for "Brothers supporting the Million Women's March"

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Pointing trowel used by Black Men of Labor, Inc.

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P. S. & W. Co. cotton scale beam

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Cultivator hoe

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Spade head

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The number “54” in brass

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<I>Little Africa on Fire (Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-1921)</I>

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Photographic postcard featuring Ray Charles

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Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Army dress uniform gloves worn by General Colin L. Powell

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Red straw hat with navy and white ribbon

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Throw pillow from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Photographic print of a toddler sitting on a bench

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Tintype of George W. Davis

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Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II during the Vietnam War

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Photograph of California Conference of Churches Group

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Postcard of a performer playing a drum while on a unicycle

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Photograph of a man in a police wagon during the Newark Riots

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Pair of leather gloves used by the 10th Cavalry Regiment

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Hat with multicolor woven pattern

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Photograph of Suliaman El-Hadi and an unidentified man

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Blue velveteen skull cap with veil

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Director’s chair owned by Cab Calloway

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Tunic from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

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Walking stick used by Jimmie Daniels

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Washboard

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Gelatin silver print of Charley Pride wearing a Milwaukee Brewers uniform

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Photograph of Bosey E. Vick

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<I>Steamer Vicksburg with Load of Refugees from Hollands Landing Taken in Sunflower River 55 Miles Above Vicksburg - April 1927</I>

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Left-handed baritone Mirafone case used at Florida A&M University

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Handmade "For Liberty Engineers" sweetheart gift from World War I

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Carte-de-visite of Millie and Christine McCoy

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Leather flight cap

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Green, blue, and pink floral day dress with shoulder pads

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Gold metal oval clip from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Daguerreotype of Rhoda Phillips

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Print reproduction with handwritten note

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Photographic print of Korean War Veteran, Edward T. Taylor

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Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

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Photograph of the senior officers of Atlanta Life Insurance Company

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Baluster from the Dock Street Theatre

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Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

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Funeral program for Fannie Lou Hamer

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Photograph of George Clinton

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Tintype of a man

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<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Hampton 5-11-27</I>

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Autographed advertisement promoting the biography of Joe Louis

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Vegetable basket

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Postcard featuring caricatured man at dinner table

created

Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Cape worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

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Three eyeglass lenses used by Herman Wallace

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Pinback button promoting the Housing Now! National March

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Photographic print of two women and a man at Jack's Memory Chapel

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Amber rhinestone necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Box of poker chips from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Black beaded handbag from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress

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Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

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Medal for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America

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Photograph of B.C. Franklin and unidentified men in Ardmore, Oklahoma

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Bible belonging to Nat Turner

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Cotton eyelet dress with black flocking

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Metal hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>Tom N. Wills of Arizona, a Great Roaper</I>

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Rectangular pink doily from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Diamond shaped teal and pearl accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pinback button for the release of political prisoners

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Pinback button with the slogan "Brotherhood"

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Decorative bunny from the porch of the Powell family vacation cottage

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Pendant for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority member's silver anniversary

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Mule bit crafted by an unidentified enslaved person

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Pinback buttons with ¡VIVA! Peace on Earth / Paz en La Tierra / Pacem in Terris

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Locket with photographs of Harriette and Harry T. Moore

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Flier for the Madison County Movement

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Wooden crutch

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Photograph of the Cotten family

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Decorative ironwork hook

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Cathedral wedding veil with pearl beads

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The Right Hat by Mae sign from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church

created

World War I Officer Stetson Campaign Hat belonging to Lt. Peter L. Robinson, Sr.

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Insignia shoulder patch for the 92nd Infantry Division

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<I>Langston Hughes </I>

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Pinback button for the Young Lords Organization

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Brown velvet cloche with black ribbon

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Shuttle

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Anniversary clock from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Chromogenic print of the tombstone of Perry William Cloman

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Arm patch for the 758th Tank Battalion owned by Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls

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Drumstick used by Art Blakey

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson, Owen William and an unidentified woman

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign reading "Coloradans for Obama"

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Photograph of the Young Lords Party and Black Panther Party buttons

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CDV of Thomas Henderson servant of Lt. Col. C.B. Lamborn of 15 Penn. Cavalry

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Floral lace flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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Blue velvet faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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String of cowrie shells

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Pink wool felt hat with detached feather brim

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Autographed photograph of Satchel Paige

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Photographic postcard of an unidentified man in a suit

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Pinback button for the film Follow Me Home

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Printing plate of Lavinia Wright

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Flier for "Skate Fever’s 1st Annual Speed Skating Contest"

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Photograph of Jimmy Spencer

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Set of wrought iron leg shackles

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Black beaded handbag with floral design from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Ku Klux Klan robe and belt worn by Phineas Miller Wilds

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Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl

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Photographic postcard of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan

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Pinback button for the 1965 Harlem Olympics

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Photographic print of Samuel M. and Eunice Jackson looking at a door

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Photograph of Laura Cathrell, a man, and two women at a party

created

Bifocals worn by Herman Wallace

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Bronze participation medal for the 1936 Berlin Olympics

created

Woven fiber basket with hat trimmings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Square brick made by an enslaved person

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Lapel pin for Honorable Discharge issued to Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

created

Pink jacket with East Asian inpsired brocade pattern

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Portrait photograph of Florence Stephens Bryant

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Signed advertisement for Essex Hemphill and Wayson Jones performance

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Photograph of Jimmie Lunceford

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Poster from Women's March on Washington with "Love trumps Hate"

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Union High School Most Valuable Player medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Handbill for a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Auburn, New York

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Photographic print of three unidentified children

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<I>"Recollection" in The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1772</I>

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Textile made by the Ibo Jewish Community in Nigeria

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<I>M91 A round up crew ready to "set out".</I>

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Photographic print of a man in uniform

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Print of Cab Calloway wearing a white tuxedo

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Log cabin variation quilt with feed sack backing

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<I>V. S. & R. Barnes 5-24-27</I>

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Photograph of Al Moore and Larrye

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Photographic print of a woman

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Magazine clipping of soldiers in formation

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Committee of Safety musket

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Photograph of Sammy Davis Jr.

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Photographic print of John Allen Cloman and an unidentified woman

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A silver and rhinestone clip from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Guest book from the home of Colin and Alma Powell

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Spire fragment

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<I>The Battle between Crib and Molineaux</I>

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Ticket stub for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

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Swinging doors from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

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Ambrotype portrait of Creed Miller with star-shaped military identification pin

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Photograph of James Baldwin and Leonard Bernstein at a Legion of Honour Ceremony

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Photograph of unidentified women at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Photographic print of a WWI soldier

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Paper tuxedo dickey with bowtie for "Waltz of the Stork" in 1982

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Pocket square worn by Reverend Ike

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Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear

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Venetian glass trade beads

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<I>Full Frame Film Festival, Official Premier</I>

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Pins from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Cuff links for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Black velvet and gold metal purse from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Black beaded bag with flowers belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Beaded clutch belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Cuff links worn by Cab Calloway

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<I>Rolling Fork, Miss. 5-2-27</I>

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<I>Barack Obama: Sobre Temas Latinos</I>

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Side table with a mirrored top from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Pinback button for Head Start

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Coin bank in the form of "Mammy" seated on a chamber pot

created

Photographic print of a woman in an ox cart at McLeod's Amusement Park

created

Poster for The Longest Walk

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Chromogenic print of marathon runner Tony Reed in Nairobi, Kenya

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Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier next to a chair with his hat on it

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Photograph of White House butlers in repose

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Photographic postcard of a man in western wear standing in front of a window

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Key ring from the car giveaway episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show

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Photographic postcard of Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart

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<I>Vyse Ave. at East 178th St., South Bronx, 2013</I>

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Baluster from the Dock Street Theatre

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Coral satin evening dress with black velveteen bodice

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Double stranded faux pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family

created

Printing plate of Claire Jay

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Twill tape with buttons from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Broadside calling for violence against abolitionist George Thompson

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Mechanical toy in the form of a caricatured boy in a mule led racing cart

created

Photograph of a female performer, Jean, in costume

created

Venetian glass trade beads

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Pale pink cardigan with gold beading from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Suit pants for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Photograph of Henry Durr holding masonry tools

created

Tintype of a Buffalo Soldier

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Pinback button for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America

created

Gold pearl coil bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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Advertisement for the record album Hot On the One

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Table lamp from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Horse saddle used by stuntman Ernest "Ernie" Robinson

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Christmas tree pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photographic postcard of Andrew and Allen Austin

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Photographic print of a woman on a stylized background of a scroll and snowscape

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Desk chair used by Sarah E. Wright

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Address book belonging to James Baldwin

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Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing during a recording session

created

Black hat form from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Program for the interment services for Joe Louis

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Pocket square worn by Cab Calloway

created

Fleur de lis metal pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic print of Tito and Paquito D'Rivera inscribed to Dizzy Gillespie

created

Photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic portrait of John Hope Franklin owned by W.D. Williams

created

Pinback button for the 1963 Freedom March

created

Red straw hat with pleated hat band

created

One gold dangle earring from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Glass display case from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Hazel Scott at age three

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Pink floral headband with tulle veil

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Business card for Tupac Shakur and his company Euphanasia

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Photograph of men playing football

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins on a stage with a girl

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Program for Cafe Zanzibar

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Photograph of Mae Reeves wearing a fox stole and black hat

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Black pillbox hat with veil and pom poms

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Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of Billie Holiday

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Tintype of a young girl in a paper radio frame

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US Army uniform belt worn by Lt. Col. Charles J. Blackwood

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Photograph of Beverly White

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Tartan wool knit beret

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Guestbook from the Powell family vacation cottage

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Wallet belonging to Harry T. Moore

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Ambrotype of John H. Copeland in an embossed leather case

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Hockey puck used by Ice Hockey in Harlem

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Perfume bottle and lid from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photographic print of S.M. Jackson in Masonic regalia

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Pantile made by an enslaved person from Boone Hall Plantation

created

<I>Neglected Genius.</I>

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Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey with his son, Lawrence McVey Jr.

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White bell bottom pants worn on Soul Train by dancer Edith Lynn Pickens

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Photographic print of a WWI soldier

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New Jersey Association Championship medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Photograph of a man and woman standing on a sidewalk

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Photographic postcard of two unidentified women

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<I>Rolling Fork, Miss. N. of R. R. Water Tank 5-2-27</I>

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Advertisement card for Mrs. Sallie A. Ramsey

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Photograph of unidentified Cosmopolitan Tennis Club members

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<I>Vicksburg 5-3-27</I>

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Pinback buttons for voting rights

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Photograph of Frances Albrier gesturing towards a mural of Mary McLeod Bethune

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Flier promoting S.S. Jones farewell meeting

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Photograph of a man with a mustache wearing a dark jacket

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Photographic print of a row of women in nurse's uniforms

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Black skullcap with corded triangular panels

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<I>Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday morning January 15, 1969</I>

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Photograph of a federal jobs training program

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Sixteen-patch multi-colored quilt

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Banner for Public Enemy

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Metal hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Gray-brown feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

created

Pennant from a Negro League East vs. West All-Star Game

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Brown hat with strap and net veil

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Printer's full print sheet of Some Men

created

Green circular hatbox with lid from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Broadside for Kairrissah at Front Street Theatre, Baltimore

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Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

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<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: IN THE KITCHEN THE COOKS PREPARE MEAT CAKES.</I>

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Printing plate used by the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation

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Photograph of Fred Toomer at an Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

created

Photograph of three members of the U.S. AAU Track and Field Team in Tokyo, Japan

created

Patch for the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with “Women’s Rights Transcend Borders"

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"Backpack" tool for hauling sugar cane

created

Magnet with a Black Futurism 2019 slogan

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Knife for cutting sugarcane

created

Cyanotype of a porter from the Hotel Palomares

created

Waste basket used by Sarah E. Wright

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Printing plate of Leontyne Price

created

Pinback button advocating for Home Rule

created

Bottle used to christen the S.S. Harriet Tubman

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String of small coral beads

created

Gold leaf pin with opal stones from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button for Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues festival

created

Pinback button for Julian Bond

created

Photograph of a football game in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Printing plate of Willie Francis

created

Tintype of a seated man

created

Tintype of a man wearing a suit with a pendant on the lapel

created

Photograph of a woman sitting in a wicker chair

created

Group portrait of a class reunion in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Business card case

created

Wood plane

created

Photograph of entertainers at Golden Gate International Exposition World's Fair

created

Bow tie pattern scrap quilt

created

Pin for the 758th Tank Battalion owned by Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls

created

Program for the 47th International Grand Lodge Convention of the I.B.P.O.E. of W

created

Funeral program for John Wesley Williams

created

Hand mirror belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Photograph of the Ensemble of Harlem Uproar House

created

Cabinet card of an unidentified infant in a christening gown seated in a chair

created

Tunic from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

created

Sign from Hope School

created

Photographic print of two children posing in front of a flowering bush

created

Photographic print of a woman and man standing in a street

created

Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a WHK microphone

created

Tintype of a seated man

created

Photograph of Donald Mills and two men seated at a table

created

<I>The Undertaker</I>

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Barstool with red vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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Blue ankle length skirt with slit

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Cream and silver double breasted jacket

created

Carte-de-visite of Lt. Governor Oscar J. Dunn

created

Photograph of two men and three women.

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<I>51-Sugar Cane Plantation, La.</I>

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Photograph of Sybil Parker

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Photograph of Alpha Iota Chapter, Wiley College

created

Pinback button with Black Power fist

created

Article page about the Black Consciousness Movement

created

Floral print tin containing feathers and faux flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Gold pencil and case owned by the Terrell family

created

Handwritten formula for pressing oil

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

White bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

<I>Coretta Scott King inside limosine leaving the first birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

created

Pledge bucket hat from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with "Defy with Dignity"

created

Photograph of Annie May Stamps

created

Decorative bunny from the porch of the Powell family vacation cottage

created

US Army uniform garrison cap worn by Lt. Col. Charles J. Blackwood

created

Photograph of people standing in a line on a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Container of spare graphite from a drafting tool kit used by John S. Chase

created

Photograph of a woman

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Eggbeater

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Trammel with hook

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Albumen print of U. S. Colored Troops at Ft. Douglas

created

Printing plate of Gwendolyn Brooks used by The Chicago Defender

created

Blue Star flag

created

Cuff bracelet with floral lattice design from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Masonic apron from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

created

Second Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of General Colin L. Powell's family home in Queens, New York

created

Distortion pedalboard owned by Vernon Reid

created

Matted tintype of Bachus

created

Photograph of Mae Reeves sitting in a chair

created

<I>Untitled</I>

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Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case

created

Whistle from pilot survival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Banner used by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs

created

Broadside for a James Brown concert in Cologne at the Blue Moon Jazz Festival

created

Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team

created

Photograph of Mae & Joel Reeves in front of a Christmas tree

created

Spike

created

Box grater

created

Raffia crochet beret with bead strands

created

Metal drawer knob from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Novelty cocaine apothecary jar owned by Hazel Scott

created

Hat box with lid

created

Broadside for the auction of 10 enslaved families in New Orleans

created

Metal bottle opener carried by Robert Thomas

created

Photograph of Eugene Martin, Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

created

Pinback button supporting Angela Davis

created

Gold sequined green dress with matching jacket cape and belt

created

Cream knit gloves with pin tucks

created

Helmet worn by Peter L. Robinson, Sr. during World War I

created

Seat back portion for a desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

created

Pocket ashtray belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Identification button worn by enslaved persons on Golden Grove Plantation

created

Green hat worn by Alicia Keys on the album cover of Songs in A Minor

created

Glass oil lamp from the home of Robert Smalls

created

Iron key ring from a plantation in North Carolina

created

Tribal art metal implement

created

Brick

created

Tintype of a woman wearing a dress with hat and bag

created

Muslim Girls Training uniform worn by Sister Ruth Omar

created

Chromogenic print of a woman sitting at a table for a meal

created

Poster for the premiere performance of the play Beauty Shop

created

<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: CHOW LINE NOTICE U.S. GOV’T SOLDIER MESS KITS</I>

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Photograph of Florence Stevens Bryant with daughter Addie Bryant

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

The Ring Magazine Boxing Fighter of the Year 1949 award for Ezzard Charles

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Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique

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Robe worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

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Bifocals worn by Herman Wallace

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Photograph of Beverly White

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Rhinestone and bead choker necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Six metal clip on earrings with paper backing from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Umbrella used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans

created

Cigarette lighter belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Pinback button which reads "Respect and Protect the Black Woman"

created

Tatted lace flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

<I>Woman in national dress. St. Lucia. W. I.</I>

created

Set of bingo cards from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

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Photograph of a Laura Cathrell and a group of men and women at a party

created

Pinback button that reads "Be Black Baby"

created

Black hobo purse with white beading from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Near Helm, Miss BR L 134-6 5-9-27</I>

created

Chromogenic print of a man standing with arms crossed

created

Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 3

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Photographic print of a woman with a large bow at her neck

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Placard stating "I AM A MAN" carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March

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Pair of teal rhinestone flower earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Advertisement card for a revival featuring the Cleveland Colored Quintet

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<I>Ebony Vol. LX, No. 12</I>

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Gelatin silver print of Leslie Hutchinson and his orchestra

created

Red and white checked apron belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Plastic handle with embedded rhinestones from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party

created

Case for sewing machine used by Yvonne DeVigne

created

Rice fanner basket made in Senegal

created

Digital image of Ernie Fields and His Orchestra

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Wooden mallet

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Flier for “The Amphitheatre Jam!!!” designed by Fab 5 Freddy

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Black wax print hat with abstract human figures and drum pattern

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Black straw hat with pleated net trim

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Writing desk with bookcase hutch from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Coat and bonnet belonging to Delores Eugenia Hardiman

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Photographic print of a woman

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Photographic postcard of James Bryant and friends

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Faux pearl flower earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Lithograph depicting a pig knocking over a “zip coon”

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Photographic print of Symuel, Jew, and Harris

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Pinback buttons for the National Mobilization for Domestic Unity

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Flier for “NY’s Best in Concert” at the Audubon Ballroom

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson in uniform with nurses

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Nautical clock gifted from Pres. Theodore Roosevelt to William L. Houston

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Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

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Knife with wooden handle

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Pair of hand-forged iron wrist shackles

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<I>Destini Camera Movement, Car Sequence</I>

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Black clip on bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Ticket for a Stevie Wonder performance in Japan

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Member badge for IBPOEW Lodge 135

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Leather house whip

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Square rhinestones earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Print of Cab Calloway conducting his band

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Eleven lengths of various trimmings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pinback button endorsing Carl Stokes for Mayor of Cleveland

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Bottle of custom made “Lena” perfume gift with drawstring bag and card

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Pinback button reading "Win With Wingate"

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Stitching pony clamp arm

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Branding iron with "O" head

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

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Cape for The Wiz costume worn by André De Shields

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photograph of Maria T. Trimble

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Flier for “The Final Countdown - The Battle, Cosmic Force vs. The Funky 4”

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Dark brown fur hat

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Embroidery hoop from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Black straw hat with velvet ribbon and rhinestone

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Rhinestone bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Boot scraper in the form of "Mammy"

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The Ring Magazine Boxing Fighter of the Year 1950 award for Ezzard Charles

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Hand-sewn MC Lyte tank top

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Six gold button covers from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Funeral program of Gloria Quinn Jackson

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Coverlet woven in a Pine Bloom pattern by an unidentified enslaved person

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Paper describing events held by the San Francisco NCNW and Junior Council

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Duffel bag used by Seba Johnson in the 1988 Winter Olympics

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<I>Coretta Scott King observes the program from her seat with actor Harry Belafonte and members of her family</I>

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Marionette in the form of a caricatured man wearing a top hat

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Concerned Citizens Voters League Card from the home of H.C. Anderson

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Frisbee with a sticker of Static Shock owned by Dwayne McDuffie

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Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

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Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette

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Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois

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Hand mirror from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Buck and Bubbles

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Photographic print of unidentified woman

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Photograph of Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater and Coretta Scott King

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Music case used by Frank Derrick of the Cab Calloway band

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Roster for Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry, First Platoon

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and an unidentified woman and man

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Poster advertising Marlon Riggs In Person!

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Photographic print of Cliff Jackson and an unidentified man

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Service card of Pullman porter Percy Davis

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Pinback button advocating for a Civilian Review Board

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Gelatin silver print of two 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Cream leather collar with gold fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Desk box and lid with weighted roller blotter

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Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Copy work print of a photograph of Randy's Record Store and Studio 17

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Photograph of a friend of Florence Stephens Bryant

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<I>Louis Jordan "Blue Light Boogie": Mr. Personality, In Person!</I>

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Photograph of a young couple, Addie and Will Payne, in Texas

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Postcard of the bodies of Nease Gillespie, John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham

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Memorial service program for Stella Christina Jones

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Ambrotype of an unidentified woman and child

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Photograph of Warren County Court House

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Pin commemorating the mayoral terms of Wellington E. Webb

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Broadside for a revival at Antioch Baptist Church with Rev. Dr. Clarence M. Long

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Cabinet card portrait of a woman identified as a cook

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Commemorative plate featuring Martin Luther King Jr. from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Program from the Billie Holiday/Louis Armstrong “Birth of the Blues” concert

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Chair from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

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Shucking Bucket

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Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School

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Photographic postcard of Magdalene Hendricks and sister in Eastern Star regalia

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Construction paper with two photographs of performing female dancers

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Brown hat with orange flowers

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Gelatin silver print of Joe Louis accepting a championship belt

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Pink round doily from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Round metal tin painted red with poinsettias from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of the U.S. AAU Track and Field Team in Tokyo, Japan

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Promotional card for a piano recital given by Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone)

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Photographic print of Cliff Jackson sitting next to a pile of scrap wood

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Prosthetic leg worn by Carl Brashear

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Folk art model of a slave ship on stand

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Photograph of a man and a woman

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Track shoes worn by Carl Lewis

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Shuttle used for weaving

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Shingle froe

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<I>Samuel M. Jackson 7 wks 1925</I>

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Envelope for letter from H.W. Sewing for Daisy Bates Trust Fund

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Photograph of Harry "Sweets" Edison and Birdie Edison with unidentified couple

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White plastic cap

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U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Bentwood armchair from a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Tintype of man standing in front of prop fence

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Photograph of a young woman demonstrating use of voting machine

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Photograph of seven Junior NCNW members with voter information pamphlets

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Photograph of the Olympia-Kunsteisstadion

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Photograph of James Baldwin and three friends sitting outside around a table

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Logo pin for Heritage Series membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Photographic postcard of a man in front of a house

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Framed photograph of Colin and Alma Powell

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Photograph of a Meet the Candidates program sponsored by the San Francisco NCNW

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Photograph of Del Shields, Hazel Scott, and Nina Simone

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U.S. Army forage cap

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<I>National Guards - Taking Negros to Ball Park for Protection</I>

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Tintype of a man

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Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing with other musicians in a recording studio

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Photograph album of 25th Regiment USCT soldiers compiled by William A. Prickitt

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Debarking tool head

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Spoon for serving hominy

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Photograph of the Rose Buds performing at the Rose Room

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Wooden plaque awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Johnny Dankworth pencil from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Double-sided pieced scrap quilt

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Temporary pass for the Miami Beach Convention Center

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Photographic postcard of an infant

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One rhinestone dangle earring from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photographic print of a migrant worker, Stan Dlancey, in a bean field

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Cabinet card of a woman named Mary

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Photographic print of Vincent and Patricia Chin at Studio 17

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Photographic print of men gathered for State Funeral Directors' meeting

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Photographic print of an unidentified girl sitting on a lawn

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Gelatin silver print from Club Harlem

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Blouse worn by Patti LaBelle a 7th Annual BET Walk of Fame performance

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Small Bible repurosed into an address book by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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Sign from Women's March on Washington with "I Stand with..."

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Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

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Program for Cafe Zanzibar

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Photographic print of a woman and dog in front of Jack's Memory Chapel

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Photograph of unidentified men and woman at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Poster from the Prince Rally 4 Peace concert in Baltimore

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Black hat with feather and fabric rose

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Poster for an All Stars baseball game

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Blue hat with burgundy velvet ribbon

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Pin for Delta Sigma Theta sorority

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Pinback button featuring a portrait of Bessie Coleman

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Pinback button for Robert F. Kennedy 1964 New York Senate campaign

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Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Brochure for the Fort Dupont Hockey Club

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Wrought iron slave scale

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Beaded cream evening gown

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Employment identification badge of unidentified employee

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White undergarment with pink ribbon and lace

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Tintype of a seated Buffalo Soldier

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Photographic print of unidentified woman

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Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"

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Tintype of James Tall

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Photograph of Moral Re-Armament Assembly of Nations attendees

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Metal bracelet with vertical ribbed decorations from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Community Spirit award in memory of Emmett Ashford

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Photograph of South Central Los Angeles Center designed by Harold Williams

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<I>I. - Marchande de bananes aux Antilles</I>

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Tintype of Christopher A. Wilson

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and two other women posing

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Receipt signed by Fats Waller

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Candle mold

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Hoe from Liberia

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Land indenture for the Barbados plantation of Captain Gunston

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Clock used by the Citizen's Savings and Trust Company

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Logo pin for Global Perspective membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Red floral dress with bishop sleeves

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Photographic print of Lewis Garner

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Robe worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

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Jacket with boutonnière from a suit worn by Reverend Ike

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<I>1960Now Portfolio (A): Untitled</I>

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<I>Early Animation</I>

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Carte-de-visite of a man

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Printing plate of an unidentified man in glasses

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Photograph of E. G. Humphrey wearing a suit

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Costume worn by Beyoncé as Deena Jones in the film Dreamgirls

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Photographic print of two men sitting on a car

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Contact print of Dick Howard wearing New Mexico Track sweatshirt

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Photograph of horse and buggy

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Pinback button featuring Martin Luther King Jr.

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Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in uniform

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Photograph of a woman, Birtie, in a fur coat

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Grey earthenware vase from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

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Photographic print of Irene Banks standing in front of a brick building

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Razor blade hidden in bunk bed for prison cell no. 3 at Angola prison

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Wooden paddle

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<I>Pre-Baptismal Prayer</I>

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Pinback button for the New York Black Yankees

created

Negative of Roger Williams University's Commencement Hall

created

Brass colored metal bracelet with blue rhinestones from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Destini Directing Brother</I>

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Fan from the Cotton Club

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Poster from Women's March on Washington with “Refugees welcome”

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Rhinestone flower brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Poster for a concert by Nina Simone and The Vogues

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Repurposed bag of chess pieces used by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook

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Photographic print of a woman sitting and a man standing

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<I>Servicing a Family</I>

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Photograph of Louise Graham at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Black jacket with custom painting worn by Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind and Fire

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Sign from a segregated restaurant

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Brown and cream striped day dress from the Civil War era

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White cotton blouse with cut and drawn embroidery

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Photograph of a Black History Week display

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Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman

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Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks

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Albumen print of Stephen Johnson

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Dance rattle

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Metal chain carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

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Photographic postcard of two WWI soldiers

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Flier for Run DMC and the Beastie Boys at Freedom Hall in Louisville

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a WSRS microphone

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Bag containing a piece of brick from Fort Sumter owned by Marquis Peterson

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Pennant for Howard University class of 2009

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Flier for "The Boogie Boys, Mr. Sweety-G, Master Don, and The Death Committee"

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Pair of nurse's shoes worn by Pauline Brown Payne

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Photograph of a man and a woman

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Clothes brush with handle in the form of a caricatured woman

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Photograph of a piano player

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Suit owned by Vernon Reid

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Six paneled straw hat with wide brim

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Horsehair bonnet with ribbons

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Black straw hat with black feathers and gemstone

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White buckram hat form from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Fishing hat from the Powell family vacation cottage

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Bracelet from 2016 Women's March owned by Stacey Abrams

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Blue fabric heart-shaped box from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tintype of a man

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Fishing rod from the Powell family vacation cottage

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Photograph of Jack Oakie and Jesse Owens

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<I>Dr. Ralph David Abernathy being kissed on the cheek by an admirer after the memorial service</I>

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Willy Hall

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Clothes hanger used by Pullman porters

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Photograph of Southwest Regional Conference of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photograph of an unidentified man

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Photographic print of women and children outside a building

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Commemorative indigo resist textile with portrait and name of Barack Obama

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Carte-de-visite of a man with walking stick, hat, and jacket

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Photograph of a woman standing on a porch at Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Printing Plate of Ruth Toles

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Shrub hook

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Wooden fork

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Floral lace flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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<I>1st Annual Black Photog. Dinner Honoring James Van Der Zee + Roy DeCarava</I>

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Photographic print of "Krazy" Kris Kolumbo

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Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day

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Bale hook

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Kissi iron currency

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Menu insert from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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<I>Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jackson, Owners</I>

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Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

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Pinback button promoting public housing in New York City

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Photograph of Chickie Collins

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<I>GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2</I>

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One dangle earring with openwork design and stars from Mae's Millinery Shop

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European trade beads

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Processional cross from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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<I>BR L 132-2 5-9-27</I>

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Photograph of Ralph Cooper

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Straw hat with upturned brim

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Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier wearing an aiguillette

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Dress worn by Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons

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Black velvet skirt worn by Marian Anderson for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert

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Silver hand mirror owned by members of the Ellis family

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Photographic print of a woman posing outdoors

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<I>The Proposed Amendment to the Constitution</I>

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Photograph of George Clinton

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Tintype of man in formalwear

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Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin owned by Lt. Louise Lomax

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<I>The Suburbia Portfolio: Untitled 40</I>

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Gold and silver rhinestone leaf pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Sign used for segregating transportation terminal seating area

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Pennant for Wilberforce University football

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Single cuff link worn by Eugene Allen

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Reversible scrap quilt made from clothing fabrics

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Photographic print of Jessie Greer at her high school graduation

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Photograph of a woman

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Desk used by Sarah E. Wright

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Conga played by Ray Barretto

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<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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<I>A somber Mrs. Coretta Scott King entering into Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

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Photographic print of of 3 men, 2 boys and 1 woman posing on a porch

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Chromogenic print of a man in a corner behind a church pew

created

Photograph of citizenship education class at San Francisco NCNW headquarters

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Photograph of Principal H. H. Falkener and four Percy Street School teachers

created

Clear plastic box from Mae's Millinery Shop

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White clip on bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Brown clutch with rhinestone decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Floral peach brocade evening jacket

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Letter opener for the Black Star Line

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French manilla

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Wooden paddle

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Wooden fork

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Funeral program of Elbor E. (Mac) McCondichie, Sr.

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Photographic print of a woman, Dittie, on a couch with a cigarette

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Photograph of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company office

created

Army Green Service uniform belt worn by General Colin L. Powell

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Hat with sequin and tulle worn by Janet Jackson as Mae West costume

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Photographic postcard of three WWI soldiers

created

Poster for the album Living in America by James Brown

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Tintype of a man

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Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball for Delta State

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Puerto Rican Slave Registration form number 2508 for Julian Charó

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Ivory powder horn with carved decoration

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Pair of black half hose from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Cream and red appliqued quilted bedcover

created

Rhinestone flower pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Nation of Islam University of Islam school uniform worn by Myrtle Kaye Hopkins

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Tie rod

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Hat worn by Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

created

Photographic print of Ira Tucker, Sr. and Louise Tucker

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Photograph of Busy Bee, Water Bed Kev, Starski, Ruby Dee, Master Rob and friend

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Pair of handsewn leather shoes for a child

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Brick from the Medway Plantation made by an enslaved person

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Rice fanner basket

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Snuff stick

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Group portrait of two groups of men in tuxedos

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Silk scarf worn during the Women's March on Washington

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Manilla

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Tintype of a seated young woman

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Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

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Badge with an image of the Newark, NJ Prince Hall Masonic Temple

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Pinback button advocating for education in Harlem

created

<I>Harlem on my Mind</I>

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Photographic print of a family posed inside a car

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Faux fur black pillbox hat

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Film still of Una Mae Carlisle on the set of “I Like It ‘Cause I Love It”

created

Cassette tape deck owned by General Colin L. Powell

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Delegate badge for IBPOEW convention

created

Journalist pass for a football game owned by Jim Vance

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Contract for a Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels performance

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Rhinestone earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>5005 Profound Meditation</I>

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Banjo head

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<I>Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, president of Morehouse College, seated with a young Isaac Farris Jr. and friend</I>

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<I>Rosa Parks seated with Congressman John Conyers, Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and Mr. Cleveland Robinson</I>

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Tintype of woman in jacket and dress with hat and muff

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Albumen print of Solomon Frister

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White necktie worn by Cab Calloway

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Program for the West Philadelphia AME Church District Conference

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Faded photograph of an unidentified man

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Apron with IBPOEW iconography

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Printing plate of an unidentified group

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Flier for "The 13th Annual Zulu Nation Anniversary"

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Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier

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Top worn by Janet Jackson in "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" music video

created

Wooden plow

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<I>Right On!</I>

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<I>Untitled</I>

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String of amber beads with metal beads

created

Pass for filmmakers to the Lone Star International Film Festival

created

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

created

Photograph of Jack Grant

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Chromogenic print of an older woman

created

Advertisement for the Dixie Spiritual Singers and a drawing of a boat

created

Print of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Ladies Auxiliary

created

Portrait of Valdora Turner as a young girl

created

Printing plate of Ivie Anderson

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Pair of dog tags for Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls

created

Dress loafers worn by Reverend Ike

created

Photograph of James Baldwin and five friends sitting outside around a table

created

Cream quilted bucket hat with bow

created

Pinback button promoting affirmative action

created

Photographic print of Mamie Scurlock and an unidentified woman

created

Photograph of Dr. A .M. Townsend standing in front of a lock

created

Timber carrier

created

Square brick made by an enslaved person

created

Handheld broom from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button which reads "Malcolm X Speaks For Me"

created

CNA Sprint Series Medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Funeral program of William Walker

created

Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant

created

<I>Harry Belafonte Jr. seated with Mrs. Coretta Scott King and her children</I>

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Scythe owned by George Madison

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Gelatin silver print of Curly "Drum Boogie"

created

Coin bank in the form of a "pickaninny" boy eating a watermelon slice

created

Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr.

created

Photographic postcard of the Cleveland Colored Quintet

created

Four fabric clothing tags from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of FAME Church Members Standing on the Front Steps

created

Pink hat with bows

created

Trunk used by Tuskegee Airman 2d Lt. James McCullin

created

Axe

created

Obituary for Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey

created

Member badge

created

Placard reading "Sanction South Africa Now!"

created

Ring owned by Ginger Smock

created

Five paper clothing tags from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic print of an unidentified young girl

created

Theatre program for Boesman and Lena

created

Pinback button for N.A.R.C.O.

created

Tintype of John Spurrier

created

Pinback button reading "Save the Community Book Store"

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

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Letter concerning procurement of whips, personal effects, and bolts of cloth

created

<I>Pilot Training School: Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama</I>

created

Photograph of Mae Reeves sitting on a lawn

created

Black wool gown with fur trimmed hem worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Pinback button stating "Stay Woke" worn during the Women's March on Washington

created

Photograph of the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Identification tag for drummer “George Washington,” with American eagle

created

Itinerary for Nina Simone's tour with Harry James

created

Press Release from the Lincoln Motion Picture Company

created

Strongbox owned by Church and Terrell families

created

Pinback button reading "Students for Mary Ellen"

created

Wedding dress worn by Lollaretta Pemberton with veil and headpiece

created

Football trading card for Reggie Collier depicting Joe Gilliam

created

Program for "Cookie" An Evening with Charles Cook and Friends

created

Chromogenic print of a large gathering of people outdoors

created

Pantile made by an enslaved person from Boone Hall Plantation

created

Photomechanical print of Jack's Memory Chapel

created

Culling hammer

created

Black velvet top hat with veil

created

Glass table lamp with crystals from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Throw rug from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Blue rhinestone flower accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Tintype of a man

created

Print of Rev. J. H. Hillsman

created

Backstage pass for Pori Jazz Festival used by Ira Tucker

created

Photographic print of a man and a woman standing outside

created

Photograph of Ivie Anderson, Rex Stewart, Harry Carney, and Hayes Alvis

created

Pinback buttons for the play Radio Golf

created

Photograph of unidentified tennis player at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure

created

Photograph of a male baseball player and a woman

created

<I>Crockett Riding Mount Toro. Salinas Rodeo, 1919</I>

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Length of white tulle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Pullman porters with Dale Wimbrow and an unidentified woman

created

Photograph of Frances Albrier gesturing towards a mural of Mary McLeod Bethune

created

Pinback button reading "Blacks for McGovern"

created

Photograph of an unidentified man playing a trumpet

created

Pair of mule style shoes with wooden soles

created

Funeral program of Dr. T. Oscar Chappelle Sr. with notes by Eddie Faye Gates

created

Albumen print of an unidentified woman sitting on stairs

created

Skidding tongs

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Brick

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Tintype of an unidentified man

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White translucent hat with wide brim

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Cane for Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

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Blue suede beret

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Program for Club Ebony

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Photograph album presented to Beatrice Williams

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Photographic postcard of man in a western wear with steamboat backdrop

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Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America

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Photograph of Bill Hawkins in a Pullman porter uniform with four men

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Photograph of Tallulah Bankhead seated with three men and a woman at a table

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<I>Animating</I>

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and another woman wearing leis

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Photographic postcard of a man with a pipe, riding a mule

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Lamp hand-painted by Julian F. Abele

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Signed digital print of Colin Kaepernick kneeling during national anthem

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Field noisemaker

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Photographic print of damaged Jackson Funeral Home ambulance

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Set of twenty molded heads in the form of a caricatured men and women

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Carte-de-visite album of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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Army Good Conduct Medal

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Roster for Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry, Fourth Platoon

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Framed marble bas-relief of Edith Nicolls

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<I>Paterson City Club vs. Baltimore Black Sox</I>

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Quilt made from clothing samples in mulitple colors

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<I>Assembled dignitaries listen as the choir renders a selection behind them</I>

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Photograph of Homer T. Gray wearing a suit and sitting in a chair

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Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School

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Color photograph of Mae Reeves & Donna Limerick posing outdoors

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<I>Head Off & Split: Poems</I>

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Pennant for Howard University class of 2009

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Metallic silver convertible clutch

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Flier for Run DMC Raising Hell Tour at the Oakland Coliseum

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Shackles and key

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Tintype of a woman

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Venetian glass trade beads

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Banner used at Public Enemy performances

created

Composite photograph of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson

created

Pinback button of the Pan-African flag

created

Black and tan chessboard used by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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Banner from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics owned by Marilyn White

created

Table and shelving unit from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Pinback button for the Black Panther Party

created

Printing plate of Newbold Morris

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Photograph of Charles Dillingham, August Wilson and Benjamin Mordecai

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Digital image of Hal Singer in Paris with Eddie Faye Gates

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Skidding tongs

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Wooden paddle

created

Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

created

Pinback button for SNCC's One Man One Vote campaign

created

Red feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

created

Decorative shoe figurine from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Negative of young child standing in front of trees

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Ku Klux Klan Night Hawk hood and mask used by Stetson Kennedy

created

Square rhinestone brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Tintype of a woman

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Snuff stick

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Doubletree harness owned by the Lyles family

created

Photograph of a female dancer in costume performing on stage

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Digital image of Cecil White, his son, and Eddie Faye Gates

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Silk lace and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria

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Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a small tree

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Flag for the Veterans Reunion of the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

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Printing plate of Marian Anderson

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Musketeer violin rosin owned by Bo Diddley

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White hat with rhinestone bow

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Wash pot used by Manda Caldwell and her daughter Susan Caldwell McGill

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Teardrop earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

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<I>Destini Riley, Self Portrait</I>

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Photographic print of Cliff Jackson standing with his arms akimbo

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Photograph of Jimmy Miller playing guitar

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<I>Untitled</I>

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Postcard for The Official "Party With A Purpose" Afterparty, MMM 20th Anniv.

created

Purple faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Bronze colored pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Maurice Jackson - 3 months</I>

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Pinback button for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign

created

Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II with unidentified platoon member in Vietnam

created

Jig doll in the form of a caricatured porter

created

Reproduction patch with Red Hand emblem

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Suit jacket for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Green cap owned by Suliaman El-Hadi

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Champagne glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Plastic rain hat with black plastic case from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Figurine in the form of a caricatured African woman and child

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<I>Big City Subway Map</I>

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Women's Army Corps uniform worn by Private First Class Ara Belle Brown Jennings

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Cast iron cooking pot with handle

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Tintype of a Buffalo Soldier and his wife

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Ligue belge d’Athlétisme medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Pinback button for CORE and Black Power

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Portrait of an unidentified Tuskegee Airman in uniform, signed "Tilt"

created

Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

created

Tintype of a young man in a suit and tie

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Photographic print of Orville and Paula Williams sitting at a table

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Print of Cab Calloway in checked suit standing in front of microphone

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Case for heirloom Saxon violin and bow

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Envelope

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Chromogenic print of The Jackson 5 standing in a yard

created

Photographic print of two framed portraits hanging on a wall

created

Carton of silver nitrate solution used by midwife Amanda Carey Carter

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Phebe M. Coffin

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Navigator wings owned by Fenton B. Sands

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White suspenders worn by Cab Calloway

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Black velvet pillbox with hat pin

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Kitchen utility knife with a wooden handle

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Photographic postcard of a baby in a stroller

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<I>Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature</I>

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<I>Coalition Rule in Danville</I>

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Photographic print of a woman sitting on rear bumper of a car

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<I>Dinner Is Served in the Dining Car</I>

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Creamer from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Photograph of band majorettes

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Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a statue

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<I>Rev. E.W. Lumpkin conducts the Interdenominational Theological Center male chorus</I>

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Pinback button with "What 'Cha Gonna Do About Hate?" slogan

created

Photograph of two members of 20th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam

created

Door with rescue markings from Hurricane Katrina

created

Pin for the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

created

Five bows of various sizes, colors, and fabrics from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic print of a man and woman posing

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Leather Masonic apron owned by H.C. Anderson

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Pansy faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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Wooden fork

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Wrist compass from pilot survival vest owned by Charles F. Bolden

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Stickers advertising the De La Soul album Timeless

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Wool quilt with hand embroidered details

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Straw sombrero hat associated with Civil Rights campaign, Camden, Alabama

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Adult-sized "Get In Good Trouble" face mask by The #BLAIRISMS

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Hat with an emblem for a fraternal organization

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Light blue denim jacket worn by Wilbert Rideau while incarcerated

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Photographic print of of two women and two children sitting

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Photographic print of a row of women and a row of men posing in room

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Focus scope from the studio of H.C. Anderson

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Brick from Harriet Tubman Home

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Drawstring evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Photograph of a man seated on a couch

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Photographic print of children playing on the sidewalk

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Glass tray from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Journalist pass for an Inauguration Day event at the Newseum owned by Jim Vance

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<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: AT THE END OF A HARD DAY’S WORK</I>

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Paper fan for Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign

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French Army canteen

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Advertising card for an event honoring Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan

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Contemporary manilla

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Brown hat with white pattern

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High crown fabric hat with abstract print

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Black pillbox with veil and bow

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Photographic postcard of a seated WWI soldier

created

Letter from John L. Lewis regarding Maxine Sullivan

created

Pinback button with the text "Viva El Boicot"

created

Photograph of NCNW press conference with San Francisco newspaper editors

created

Pinback button promoting black unity

created

Cover letter regarding a runaway enslaved person in Cuba

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Armchairs used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

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Table used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

created

Chromogenic print of a young girl

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Romeo costume doublet worn by Cab Calloway at the Miami Beach Cotton Club

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Keychain with six keys owned by Cab Calloway

created

Pocketwatch inscribed to William Lloyd Garrison from George Thompson

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Photograph of midwife Susie Carey

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Wooden seed shovel

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Photograph of Gilbert E. DeLorme. Sr., shaking hands with an unidentified man

created

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

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Promotional mailer from the Elk's Rendezvous Nite Club

created

Photographic print of unidentified woman and child

created

Pinback buttons for the San Quentin Six

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

Throw pillow from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Metal hatpin with rhinestone bauble from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform beret worn by Medina Rowell

created

Pleated beret with rhinestones

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Cabinet card of three young women

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Tintype of a young woman

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Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend

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Funeral program of Mary Lee Washington

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Photograph of Frances Albrier and John Shelley

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier

created

Photograph of Roger Williams University's Commencement Hall

created

<I>Saint John Globe Vol. XXIII No. 47</I>

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of Mae Reeves standing outdoors

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<I>S. S. Sprague Arriving at Vicksburg with 9 Barges Loaded with Refugees from Greenville and vicinity - April 1927</I>

created

Romeo costume hose worn by Cab Calloway at the Miami Beach Cotton Club

created

Grain scoop

created

Sixteen decorative artificial flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Flier advertising performances at the Apollo Theater

created

Side table with glass top from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Wooden clothes pounder

created

Fork from the Tubman household

created

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Carte-de-visite of a woman

created

Photograph of a man speaking at an Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

created

Blue looped crochet hat

created

Photograph of The Henry LeTang Dancers at Club 845

created

Portrait of an unidentified Tuskegee Airman in aviation gear, signed "Tilt"

created

Photograph of George West, U.S. Representative and paper bag manufacturer

created

Pink and red abstract print bolero style jacket

created

Photograph of the private tennis court at Dr. Eaton's house

created

Photograph of a woman standing on the porch of a house

created

Broadside for a James Brown concert at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort

created

Photograph of Arthur Melvin Townsend

created

Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church

created

Glass fragment from Ground Zero collected by Elizabeth "Queen Ann" Burnett

created

<I>Vyse Ave at East 178th St, Bronx, N Y, September 1984</I>

created

Deacon's chair from Spruce Street Baptist Church, Nashville

created

Photographic print of Carl Lewis with Jesse Owens and two others

created

Photographic print of a woman sitting on a porch petting a dog

created

Building brick from Bethune-Cookman University's White Hall

created

Pair of cuff links worn by Eugene Allen

created

Plastic comb with pearl accents from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Clipboard from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Brick fragment from Goatfield Plantation

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Broadaxe with wooden handle

created

<I>Untitled (Good and Bad Angels Flying)</I>

created

Printing plate of Captain Harold Martin

created

General Collection form for the Brazilian ship Convenção

created

Printing plate of Norman Corwin

created

Poster promoting freestyle event hosted by BMI and Black Rock Coalition

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Charleston slave badge from 1834 for Servant No. 849

created

Grey prison issue beanie worn by Herman Wallace

created

Promotional pamphlet for Soul City, North Carolina

created

Photographic souvenir of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home in Anacostia, D.C.

created

Makeup case used by makeup artist Bernadine M. Anderson

created

Theatre program for The Old Glory: Benito Cereno

created

Photographic postcard of a bartender and two patrons in a bar

created

Photograph of a man and two female performers seated at a table at Club 845

created

<I>Vyse Ave at 178th St, South Bronx, May 1991</I>

created

Pinback button for the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU)

created

Turquoise dress with beaded bodice and ribbon waistband

created

Gold ring purse with clear beads

created

Pickaxe head

created

Advertisement card for the Down Home Quartette

created

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

created

Pinback button featuring Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson, Jr.

created

Gelatin silver print of a man wearing a hat and one suspender

created

Clear-sided hatbox with turquoise base and lid from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Political card antagonizing candidates favoring integration

created

Photographic crayon portrait of Squire May

created

Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party

created

Crank toy in the form of a minstrel banjo player and minstrel male dancer

created

Jacket and patch from the Universal Negro Improvement Association

created

Photo card of Rev. J. C. Melton with his wife Alian and their three children

created

Partial brick

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman posing in a black and white outfit

created

Tintype of two men wearing suits

created

Photograph of Jimmie Lunceford

created

Photograph of six young men posing in front of a bandstand

created

Articles detailing the trial of South African activists

created

Photograph of Marion Durr wearing a shirt and vest

created

Photographic postcard of Linnie King and Virginia Bryant Williams

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Pink open crown hat with flower decoration

created

Print of Cab Calloway looking out a window

created

Photograph of four employees outside Atlanta Life

created

Colorized photo of Mae Reeves & her son Sonny

created

Eyepatch worn by Slick Rick

created

Pinback button for the film She's Gotta Have It

created

Washcloth from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Glass tray from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button for Harold Washington's Chicago Mayoral campaign

created

Photograph of Casey Grant, Martin Luther King, Sr., Joann Mayes Horne

created

Banner for Public Enemy

created

<I>Mrs. Coretta Scott King walking to her limousine after the first birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

created

Photographic postcard of boxer Emma Maitland

created

Advertisement card for the Tuskegee Four

created

Pinback button memorializing Malcolm X

created

Photograph of men playing football

created

Sign about the integration of the Detroit Tigers

created

Wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Photograph of two baseball players

created

Photograph of a group of posing men

created

Silver pendant owned by Ginger Smock

created

Photographic print of Mamie Scurlock and two unidentified siblings

created

Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book

created

Photograph of Lena Horne with husband Lennie Hayton

created

Crazy quilt in wool, synthetic, and cotton fabrics with yarn embroidery

created

Baseball cap from the Memphis Red Sox

created

Four sewing needles on a paper holder from Mae's Millinery shop

created

Enameled container and lid with anti-slavery slogan

created

Photograph of a girl wearing a pleated dress

created

Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Gray-brown feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway

created

Needle point from a drafting tool kit used by John S. Chase

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Print of the Men's 400M Hurdles medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics

created

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

created

Wood hair comb from Ghana

created

Photographic print of the Scurlock family

created

Cape from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

created

Venetian glass trade beads

created

Pinback button from the April 25, 1981 Run for Life

created

Logo pin for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Rainbow feather boa and shoulder pads cape worn by André 3000

created

Pinback button for the People's Church / Iglesia De La Gente

created

Photographic print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car

created

<I>Harry Belafonte Jr. seated with Coretta Scott King and her children</I>

created

Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant

created

<I>Divisional Insignia, Service Bars, War Medals of the American Army</I>

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Pine box owned by Pvt. Marquis Peterson, Co. F, 55th Mass. Vol. Inf.

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<I>Company P 506th Engineer Service Battalion Camp Lee 1149 G</I>

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Pin back button from Commodores 1978 Platinum Tour

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Donna Limerick painted sign from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Wooden plow

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Photograph of Gilbert DeLorme, Sr. and associates at Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

created

Tintype of two women

created

Photographic print of 3 men and 2 women sitting in front of Jack's Memory Chapel

created

Wood plane

created

Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital

created

Ivory satin clutch with sequins and beading from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Desmond Margetson and Reginald Weir at Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Resin bucket for making turpentine

created

Kettle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pink faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery

created

Photograph of two men and two women

created

Highball glass from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

World War II Victory Medal owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

created

Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children

created

Bar chair with black vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Tintype of a seated man in front of a buggy

created

Photographic print of a woman posing in front of bushes

created

Tintype in carte-de-vsite of an unidentified woman

created

Wooden ladle

created

Printing plate from the Chicago Defender

created

Rainbow beaded purse from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Ashtray belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of a Blanche Calloway

created

Tintype of a Baptist minister, Rev. Frank Taylor

created

Fishing rod from the Powell family vacation cottage

created

Black wool wrap skirt with faux fur trim

created

Venetian glass trade beads

created

Round yellow faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

One cent token with advertisements for W. W. Wilbur's businesses

created

Restaurant menu from Dooky Chase's Restaurant

created

White and black feather boa worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Suspenders worn by Eugene Allen

created

Photographic postcard of a military marching band

created

Broom used by the community members to clean-up after Baltimore protests

created

Printing plate for "Plain Talk to Men"

created

Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

created

Photograph of LL Cool J and Russell Simmons at a fashion shoot for Rolling Stone

created

Pink ombre gauze handkerchief from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Black straw hat with black ribbon

created

Sewing basket with lid from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Flier for the Public Enemy album There's a Poison Goin On

created

Bill of sale of an enslaved man named Jesse to the Governor of Georgia

created

Tin shears

created

Photograph of Frank N. D. Buchman, Jerry Palaypay, and Walter Alves dos Santos

created

Photographic postcard of the Ku Klux Klan marching down Pennsylvania Avenue

created

Color photograph of Onie B. Granville

created

Photograph of the Count Basie Orchestra performing on stage

created

Uniform cap owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

created

Pink and silver brocade jacket with frog closures

created

<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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White braided pillbox hat

created

Photograph of Erskine Hawkins

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<I>Mrs. Eunice Jackson w/ their only son- S.M. Jr.</I>

created

Photographic print of Jennie Garner

created

Building brick from Spelman College's Upton Hall

created

Photocopy of a portrait of the Cotten family

created

Pennant from The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

created

Bentwood sieve

created

Promotional Cotton Club mallet owned by Cab Calloway

created

File folder owned by Henrietta Bell Wells

created

Pair of glasses on a handle belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Photograph of Coke La Rock inside 1520 Sedgewick, #2A

created

<I>Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?</I>

created

Double breasted taupe suit jacket

created

Cotton scale with weight

created

Kerosene lamp

created

Desktop nameplate used by Dr. Ben Carson

created

Photograph of three people in front of a barn

created

Bag used by Gabby Douglas to carry uneven bar grips and tape for 2012 Olympics

created

Photographic print of Mary and Warren Fearing

created

Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II during the Vietnam War

created

Family temperance pledge for Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins

created

Photographic postcard of boy on a horse in front of a bucolic backdrop

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Gelatin silver prints of Charley Pride wearing a Memphis Red Sox uniform

created

"Answer Peekskill" campaign pin for Ben Davis

created

Pinback button for the National Chicano Moratorium Committee

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier

created

Cream knit dress with copper sequins and beading

created

Pinback buttons with the phrase "Everybody got a right to live"

created

Cultivator hoe

created

Photographic print of an unidentified woman

created

<I>Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature</I>

created

Sign for Minton's Playhouse

created

Advertisment for Bakerfix featuring and signed by Josephine Baker

created

Silver crownless hat with floral pattern

created

Track uniform for the Santa Monica Track Club worn by Carl Lewis

created

Photograph of Bill Bailey

created

Pinback button for Clinton presidential campaign

created

Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend

created

Photographic print of two women sitting inside a house

created

Pinback button with "Stop Apartheid" slogan

created

Photograph of a woman standing in front of a car

created

Photograph of a house surrounded by trees

created

Draw hoe blade fragment

created

Advertisement card for Rev. R. L. Thomas

created

Partial brick

created

Photograph of the John H. Scott family home

created

Print of Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D.

created

Wooden fork

created

Printed floral skirt worn by Lucy Lee Shirley as a child

created

Slab made of terracotta and bricks

created

USA Olympic patch for the 1960 Summer Games in Rome owned by Dick Howard

created

Links pin belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Flyer promoting the Citizenship Education Project

created

Pinback button promoting Malcolm-X Day

created

Poster of Josephine Baker advertising her performance at the Strand Theater

created

Advertisement card for the Golden Echoes singing group

created

Accounting ledger for Shearer Cottage

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Stencil plate from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

created

Green crochet turban-style hat

created

Green t-shirt with a portrait of MC Lyte

created

Poster from Women's March with Lorde's "Revolution is not a one time event”

created

Whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

created

Console with furniture key from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Chromogenic print of Julius Carry as Sho'Nuff

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Pinback button promoting Martin Luther King Day

created

Coin bank in the form of "Mammy"

created

Coat made of American bison hide

created

Photocollage of entertainers

created

Program for Memphis Bound

created

Photographic print of Muhammad Ali at the 1996 Olympic Opening Ceremony

created

Photograph of Frances Albrier

created

<I>San Francisco</I>

created

Placard from memorial march reading "HONOR KING: END RACISM!"

created

Pocket watch and chain owned by Terrell family

created

Photographic print of the Greer family at the Cincinnati YMCA

created

Photograph of Velma Middleton seated at a table with two women

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Miniature cast iron pot with handle

created

Walking stick owned by Cab Calloway

created

Home movie footage taken in Hunts Point, NY

created

<I>Destini Painting on 16mm for I, Destini</I>

created

Framed print of a woman in a blue hat from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button with "I Believe Anita Hill"

created

TIntype of a seated woman

created

Chromogenic print of 4 women and 3 men standing indoors

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

<I>Set-Up Animation Green-Screen</I>

created

Photographic print of a group of women posing in rows

created

Carte-de-visite of a man seated

created

Sticker for the American Tennis Association owned by Althea Gibson

created

Business card used by J.O. Simmons "General Dealer in Plantation Supplies"

created

Photograph of a coffee hour for leading San Francisco ministers held by the NCNW

created

Black bow tie worn by Cab Calloway

created

Drumstick used by Art Blakey

created

Pinback button for the Kansas City Monarchs

created

Photograph of a man and woman sitting outside of a storefront

created

Sign reading "No Justice No Peace"

created

Wooden prosthetic leg

created

Branding iron with "W" head

created

Photographic postcard of five men on horseback

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Couch with vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

<I>POCC Ball, Manhattan, NY, 2007</I>

created

<I>Game Engine, Testing Camera Movement</I>

created

Carte-de-visite of a boy named Sandy of Company A, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

created

Sign for The Philadelphia Tribune

created

Crank toy in the form of two minstrel male dancers

created

Set of wrought iron leg shackles

created

Curtains from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Billy club from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Sharecropper's agreement between Daniel Weaver and James Crow

created

Wool sweater for the Eastern Colored League

created

Photographic print of a woman sitting in a chair

created

Photograph of a man and woman

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Venetian glass trade beads

created

Pass for artists at the Pori Jazz Festival used by Ira Tucker

created

Marble-top wash stand from the home of Robert Smalls

created

Silk rose worn by Marion Evans at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

created

Hoe from Liberia

created

<I>Su Derecho de Voto en Virginia</I>

created

Memorial card for Susan Bell

created

<I>Last photo shoot of Gordon Parks-2005 Tony & Gordon</I>

created

Pinback button for Muse Records

created

Tintype of a woman carrying a medical bag

created

Quilt clamp

created

Gate hook

created

Shoe hoe blade

created

Seven empty thread spools from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Program for a Sidney Bechet performance in Paris

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Composite photograph of a man and Velma Middleton

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Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

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Mask shaped sign used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, LA

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby and Julia Smith

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Daguerreotype of a woman with a child on her lap

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Tintype of George Washington

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Pinback button for the 1963 Freedom March

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Photographic print of Ira Tucker, Sr.

created

Five photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan

created

Photograph folder from the Ubangi Club

created

Wedding portrait of Benjamin Boozé and Magdalene Hendricks Boozé

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Pinback button for the Young Lords Party

created

Pennant for Howard University class of 2009

created

Rectangular brooch with geometric designs from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>Rev. A.D. King, Dr. King's younger brother, at the pulpit inside Ebenezer Baptist</I>

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Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform

created

Photograph of a man and a woman

created

<I>Atlanta Skyline (taken from the Jackson Street Bridge)</I>

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Photograph of W. A. Neely's blacksmith shop in Laurinburg, North Carolina

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US Army uniform garrison cap worn by Lt. Col. Charles J. Blackwood

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Men's suit pants and white suspenders

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Ku Klux Klan robe and hood worn by Phineas Miller Wilds

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<I>Fe En El Sueño Americano</I>

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Photo of man standing with his arm around woman in front of fence

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Gelatin silver print of unidentified singing group

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Member badge for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Photograph of Dee Lloyd

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Pin for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Photograph of James Baldwin and friends sitting outside around a table

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Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

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Apartment lease signed by James Baldwin

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Duct tape bag with 26 envelopes of strings owned by Bo Diddley

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Tintype portrait of Miss Allen

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Flier/ballot for the "Rappers Academy Awards 1983"

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Flier for the Troops for the Black Nation

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Cultivator hoe

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Pinback buttons for The Fortune Society

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Photograph of a staged sword duel

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Pinback button of the Republic of New Afrika flag

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Program for a Booker T. Washington High School football game

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White apron with cherries belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Photograph of Mae & Joel Reeves outdoors

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Wooden drum used on the Sea Islands, South Carolina

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<I>Some Men</I>

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Portrait of Rev. Henry Clay Anderson

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Tintype of a seated woman

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<I>Little Samuel Sleeps</I>

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Color photo of Mae Reeves at age 85

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Carte-de-visite of barber Jean Jacques Desiré

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Tintype of James Tall holding a rifle

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<I>We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Rendered Perspective 2</I>

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Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

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Yellow faux pearl bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Postcard of a praline seller

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Albumen print of three members of the Boyd family

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Spire Fragment from the French Huguenot Church

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Coquina fragment

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Ashtray belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Pinback button which reads "Reparations.. Now!"

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Brooch owned by the Elliott family

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Packet of four black and white photographs and one negative

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Rhinestone necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Canteen from a plantation

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Pinback button for the NYC Local 1549 Union

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Flier for “Dynasty Jam Boogie” designed by Eddie Ed

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Photograph of a man and a woman

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Dress worn by Cindy Herron in "Hold On" video

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Necklace pendant worn by Baba Chuck

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T-square tool

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Partial brick

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Twill pillbox with self fabric bow

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Photographic print of A.J. Smitherman, a book and the Tulsa Greenwood District

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Cream hat with faux pearl embellishments

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Sash used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans

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Dress and belt worn by Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston on The Jeffersons

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Photograph of a referee at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Rosary from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photographic print of unidentified two girls

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Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man

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Polaroid portrait of Kool Herc and Al B at Stardust Ballroom

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Pinback button for Jesse Jackson and the Democratic Party

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Pin for Influencing Decisions - A Design for Action of Alpha Kappa Alpha

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Flier for "The Biggest Hip Hop Birthday Party of the Year” for Grand Master Dee

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Photograph portrait of W. D. Williams

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Print of Cab Calloway conducting his band with a large audience visible

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Pinback button for national march against Apartheid and U.S. in Central America

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<I>Fe En El Sueño Americano</I>

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Pinback button with a Black Designers Matter slogan

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White beaded and sequined purse worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

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Photographic print of a group of 14 men and 2 women

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Pinback button for the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

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Photograph of the U.S. AAU Track and Field Team in Tokyo, Japan

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Blue hat with upturned white brim

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Photographic postcard of a woman

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Photograph of a Laura Cathrell, a man, and two women at a party

created

Pin for Economics, Service and Partnerships of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

<I>Harry Belafonte prepares to go inside Ebenezer Baptist Church for Dr. King's memorial service</I>

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Aviator's silk scarf worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and Owen William

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Purple bodice with lace and matching skirt

created

Hot shot tongs

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Sticker with a Black Designer with Soul slogan

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Locker name tag used by Briana Scurry

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Pinback button for the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum

created

Poster from Women's March on Washington with "Civility Now!"

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<I>Rev. Edward Y. Jackson prepares to baptize a young convert at Alfred Street Baptist Church, Alexandria Virginia, 2003</I>

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Photograph of destruction in Greenwood after the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress and glasses

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White wig worn by André 3000 of Outkast

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Photographic postcard of Oscar Calmeise

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Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals

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Pinback button stating "The National African American Museum is coming..."

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Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin owned by Lt. Louise Lomax

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Blue crownless hat with sequins

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<I>"MAUD" WYOMING STATE FAIR DOUGLAS 1910</I>

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Photograph of two women at the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman

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Box housing a pair of cuff links worn by Eugene Allen

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Slab made of stone

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Candle mold

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Coquina fragment

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Set of four black and white photographs and five negatives

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Tintype of a woman standing

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Pinback button of a woman with a bayonet and child

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<I>1960Now Portfolio (A): Untitled</I>

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<I>"How de Debble Does Dey Make a Bicycle?"</I>

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Rice fanner basket from Winea Plantation

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Marten fur stole worn by Dinah Washington

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Paper card with black metal snaps from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Quilted petticoat

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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Photographic print of Eugene Allen

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Photograph of a group of people socializing on a grassy hillside

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Conductor's baton with mount used by William Patrick Foster

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Photograph of Nikki Giovanni

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<I>WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: FILLING CUPS AT COFFEE URN AT END OF CHOW LINE</I>

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Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman

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Black bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Plastic rain hat from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Photograph of the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club women's doubles champions

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Red felt bag for gavel soundblock used by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Magnet with "Black Architect" design

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Clear clutch with beaded decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant

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Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend sitting on a stoop

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Placard stating "Black Lives Matter" used at Million Man March 20th Anniversary

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Photographic print of a man

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Wooden rake

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Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and friends posing in front of large rocks

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Bow tie donated by Soul Train dancer Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans

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Army jacket worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

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Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps

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Gold metal floral pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Cufflinks worn by Reverend Ike

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Digital image of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Tulsa

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Headband with appliqued yo-yo flowers

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Printing plate of carving designs from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

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Photographic postcard of Mr. Robinson

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Desk from the Dreamland Theater in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa

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Needlenose pliers from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

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Brick

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Straining spoon

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Brick made by an enslaved person

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Handmade "Mammy" doll

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Cuff links for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Wooden pitchfork

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A metal floor lamp with a crystal lampshade from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Black hat with flower sequins and beads

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Rose print silk covered raffia hat

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Floral velvet upholstered armchair from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Blue, black, gray, and brown bedcover made from suiting samples

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Silk rose worn by Sybrina Fulton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

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Banjo made in the style of William Esperance Boucher, Jr.

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Cape worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

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Brown parasol with wood handle from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Cheyney University Class of '64 40th Class Reunion name tag owned by Jim Vance

created

Lamp from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

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Brown velvet hat with leaves and bow

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Pinback button from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign

created

Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with two unidentified men

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Wood spoon

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Two-man felling saw

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Wellington Webb pre-paid $10 calling card

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Hat stand base from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Sign from segregated railroad station

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Service Award pin for Mary Church Terrell from the NACW

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Pinback button reading "Caribbean Americans for Jesse Jackson"

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Black "Sex" jumpsuit owned by James Brown

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Orange pillbox with two bows and veil

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<I>Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, Congressman John Conyers, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, Mrs. Rosa Parks and Mr. Robinson, chatting</I>

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Photograph of Mattie Jones

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Black and white dress with flowers

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Piece of reinforcing bar used during the construction of the NMAAHC

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White dress and jacket with floral embroidery

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Evening gloves with storage bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Hatpin with amber and gold decorations from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Poster advertising jazz concerts for Richard Sudhalter and the Eddie Hazell Trio

created

Photograph of the Tau Omega Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a strolling band

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Photographic print of 12 women sitting around a desk looking through papers

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Poster of the Statement and Purpose of the Olympic Project for Human Rights

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<I>Andrew Young addressing he audience at the first birthday celebration in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Key tool carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

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Cased tintype of a young man

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Pair of men's leather shoes

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Hoe from Liberia

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Digital image of Eddie Faye Gates with Don Ross holding a campaign sticker

created

Color photograph of Lucille Clifton wearing "Soul Sister" sweat shirt

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photographic print of Mamie and Addison Scurlock's wedding

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Mimeograph sheet with segregationist language

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Roster for Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry, Third Platoon

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Photograph of a hunting party

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Pink damask evening gown

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Flier for a speaking event by Minister Farrakhan

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Black beret with ribbon

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Cream knit gloves with pin tucks

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Baton used by Dr. Issac Greggs with The Human Jukebox marching band

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Pink beaded dress with gold lamé belt

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Chair from Metropolitan AME

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Wedding ring belonging to Louise Ayers Church

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Ticket for funeral services for Martin Luther King, Jr. owned by Nina Simone

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Plaster mold impression part of a baluster from an iron balcony

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Cotton handkerchief from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Receipt spindle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Black ruffled scarf from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Flier for "Birthday Party of Jungle Brother Mike G" at M.K.

created

Logo pin for Making the Net Work membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Advertisement for Madam C. J. Walker products

created

<I>No. 64 - Cutting Sugar Cane.</I>

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Bullet from Point of Pines Plantation

created

Pinback button promoting black unity

created

Cabinet card of Reverend R. G. Garner

created

Program for Grambling Vs. Morgan State Invitational Football Classic

created

Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant

created

Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Crash helmet worn by Tommy Thompson

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Photographic print of Maxine Sullivan and her children

created

Pantile shard

created

Poster for African Liberation Day

created

Button declaring "Black is Beautiful"

created

Cast iron sugar kettle

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Pin for American Red Cross Nurse worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend near a ledge

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Ambrotype of a man

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Brooch with a portrait of an unidentified man

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Photographic print of Louis S. Hayes, Jr. in uniform sitting at desk and writing

created

Photograph of Mae Reeves and a young boy at her hat shop

created

Basket for cotton

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Print of a drawing of a man and a woman adhered to a wooden board

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Hatpin decorated with pearl and black beads from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Color in Dress for Dark Skinned Peoples</I>

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Photographic print of a portrait of a man

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Pale peach hat with black net and gold bead accents

created

Wooden doll

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Artificial pink flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Nurses’ Aid</I>

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Delegate ribbon used by a Grand United Order of Odd Fellows member

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Spanish colonial document related to slavery in Peru

created

Sad iron

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Tintype of men sitting on a car

created

Postcard of Ruby, a Pullman maid, with a young girl

created

Pinback button against Apartheid

created

Boxing gloves worn by Joe Louis

created

Appointment book belonging to the The Dixie Hummingbirds

created

Circular gold metal accessory with rhinestones from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Bar chair with red vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

<I>San Francisco</I>

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Flier for a Mount Olive Baptist Church rally

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Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform worn by Medina Rowell

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Black hat with white feather hat band

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Cooking pot with three legs

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Wooden paddle

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Resin scorer

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Photographic postcard with image of a small child

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Table knocker from the Elk's Rendezvous nightclub

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Female mannequin head from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Albumen print of Hiram White

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Photographic print of three women lying on a grassy lawn

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Photographic print of 7 people sitting around 2 restaurant tables

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Poster for Madea's Class Reunion

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Sign from a segregated bus

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Albumen print of four men indoors

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Color photograph of Willie O'Ree and Ice Hockey in Harlem players

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Photographic portrait of a man and woman on floral paper backing

created

Receipt spindle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Oil lamp from the Jones-Hall-Sims House

created

Photograph of the lynching of Allen Brooks in Dallas, Texas

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Pair of cream gloves owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Sad iron

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Tintype of a seated man

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Wooden hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Wooden peach crate

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<I>TYPICAL NEGRO CABIN AT MILLWOOD, S. C.</I>

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Pointe shoe and tights worn by Alexandra Jacob of Dance Theatre of Harlem

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Photograph of female performers in costume

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Photograph of two Ensemble of Harlem Uproar House female performers in costume

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<I>Ten Minutes for Refreshments / Diez minutos para refrescarse.</I>

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Member badge for IBPOEW Lodge 85

created

Portrait drawing of Etta Moten Barnett

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Afghan vest worn by Jimi Hendrix

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Photograph of a man and woman in front of car

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Cream collar with pink trim and floral embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier standing in front of tents

created

Desk lamp and shade used by Sarah E. Wright

created

Blue velvet faux flower accessory owned by Mary Church Terrell

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Albumen portrait of Fanny Seward mounted on paper

created

Racing shirt for the New York Pioneer Club worn by Ted Corbitt

created

Long yellow faux pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Gilbert DeLorme, Sr. and poker group

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<I>Press Coverage of First Birthday Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

created

Photographic postcard of unidentified woman

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Colorized portrait of young Mae Reeves

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Dance rattle

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Spike

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Photograph of a man and a woman

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Photographic postcard of WWI soldier with rifle

created

Digital image of a Perryman family reunion

created

Pin for the diamond anniversary of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Lounge chair with red and black cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Clothes hanger used by the Pullman Palace Car Company

created

Receipt for blankets given to soldiers Prince Simbo and Sampson Freeman

created

Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

created

Black socks worn by Reverend Ike

created

Promotional photo of Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

created

Pinback button advertising for Lufthansa

created

Photographic print of two women standing in front of a car, with two men behind

created

Logo pin for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Pinback button with "LGBTQ+ for Stacey Abrams"

created

<I>New Forms of Racism</I>

created

Iron shot ball made into shackle

created

Crayon enlargement portrait of John Scott and wife Cecelia Bryant Scott

created

Pinback button for the National Welfare Rights Organization

created

Photograph of Thelonius Monk and Walt Harper with autographs

created

Balloon-back side chair from the home of Robert Smalls

created

European glass trade beads

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Pinback button with "Negotiation Now" slogan

created

U.S. Burial Flag for Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton

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Money box used by Bishop Richard Allen

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Venetian glass trade beads

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Debarking tool with a wooden handle

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Set of five negatives in a paper pouch

created

Glass table lamp with crystals from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Girl with yellow scarf - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968</I>

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Photographic crayon portrait of Roseanna May

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<I>The Ball of Roses</I>

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Boat seat with spider web design from Ecuador

created

Poster for Concept East Poetry featuring Kain, David Nelson, and Felipe Luciano

created

Flier demanding open admissions for black and hispanic students

created

Photograph of Mary J. Phillips

created

Photograph of a woman, Jean, with a fur coat

created

Tintype of man in suit, tie, and hat

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Red velvet beret

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Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

created

Tie tack for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Poster of James Brown

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Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman

created

Photograph of the Oklahoma National Guard during the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Abstract floral pillbox hat with metallic thread

created

Photograph of United States Army troops in France

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Debarking tool with a metal handle

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Photograph of Fred and Della Green at their house in Lebanon, Missouri

created

Printing plate of Portia Oliver

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Photograph of veteran and junior champions at Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins standing at a WSRS microphone

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Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

created

<I>Jacks Memory Chapel</I>

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Mahogany sofa from the home of Robert Smalls

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Basket made from kudzu

created

Journalist pass for Super Bowl XLVI owned by Jim Vance

created

Cotton scale used in South Carolina

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Belt worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

created

Photographic print of children playing on the sidewalk

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Doll owned by Clementine Roundtree Cottee and Josephine English Church

created

Photograph of a St. Augustine graduate kissing the ring of a Josephite priest

created

T-shirt for the 5th Street Gym

created

Sewing tools from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Rendering City Sequence</I>

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Pinback button promoting reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Red trousers worn by Fats Domino

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Sign reading "Justice 4 Trayvon"

created

American Woodmen ax owned by George W. Ross

created

Drinking glass from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

created

Uniform cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan

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Kitchen utility knife

created

Black skullcap wtih rhinestones and feathers

created

Poster for a performence by Maxine Sullivan, Earle Hyman, and Dick Hyman

created

Photograph of Marine sergeant sitting at a desk

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Framed photograph of Alma, Annemarie, Michael, and Linda Powell

created

Photograph of two women standing at a bar

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Photographic print of an unidentified boy

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Beaded black purse from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Yellow pearl bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Neon sign from Soul Train

created

Postcard with images of National Baptist Convention members in the Bahamas

created

Wooden hat block from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Albumen print of a sharecropping family

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Poster of the character Old Bob playing a banjo with his mule Calamity Jane

created

Metal hat stand from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Envelope addressed to Mrs Janie Moon

created

Hollow-cut silhouette of unidentified member of the Dickey family

created

Photograph of Denyce Graves wearing a Donna Langman designed dress for "Carmen"

created

Stylized floral appliqué quilt

created

Form entitled Kligrapp's Quarterly Report

created

Print of Suliaman El-Hadi, four men, and one boy

created

Banner for 125th Anniversary of the First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles

created

Branding iron with "S" head

created

Collar stay from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Yoke for harnassing a cow

created

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

created

Sweatshirt worn by Michael Holman

created

<I>LITTLE AFRICA ON FIRE TULSA RACE RIOT JUNE 1ST. 1921.</I>

created

Beaded bag with geometric design from Mae's Millinery Shop

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<I>The Sub-Committee of Management and Counsel of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (1907-1908)</I>

created

Maraca owned by Pete Cosey

created

Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

created

Photographic print of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Donation box and lid with a carving for the "Alabama Coon Fund"

created

Official pass for the Monterey Jazz Festival

created

Green conical crochet hat

created

Letter written by a social reformer named Sarah from Washington, D.C.

created

Piece of a photographic postcard of an unidentified woman in a jacket and pants

created

Carte-de-visite of a couple

created

Photograph of Jalal Nuriddin, Suliaman El-Hadi, and an unidentified man

created

Gold cuff bracelet with seashell decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Terrence Roberts and soldiers at Little Rock Central High School

created

Souvenir medal commemorating World War I

created

Insignia pin for the 10th Cavalry Regiment

created

Photograph of Jack Oakie and Jesse Owens

created

Kissi iron currency

created

Spats for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Printed inspirational quote from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Female mannequin head from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Paring knife with a wooden handle

created

Head scarf from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

created

Bedframe owned by the Ellis family

created

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

created

Photograph of Joel and Mae Reeves in Mae's Millinery Shop

created

U.S. Army Air Force pilot badge owned by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of Dr. Hans Koch shaking hands with Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. quote

created

<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs

created

Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. and his children

created

Promotional material for Liz White's presentation of Othello

created

Tintype of a woman

created

Hot shot tongs

created

Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform worn by Medina Rowell

created

Photographic print of two women and a man at Jack's Memory Chapel

created

Photograph of Harry "Sweets" Edison and Coleman Hawkins

created

Wooden stereoscope

created

Chromogenic print of a twenty-nine (29) women and ten (10) men posing outside

created

Brown leather bow accessory from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Printing plate of woman wearing pearls

created

Tintype of a man standing in neoclassical studio scene

created

Quilt clamp

created

Curtain liners from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Glossy color concert poster for Labelle at the Metropolitan Opera House

created

Albumen print of three men indoors

created

Pinback button for the Women's Bail Fund

created

White shirt with rhinestones worn by Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire

created

Class photo album for a Booker T. Washington High School reunion, Tulsa

created

Orange damask hat with elephant print

created

Plant stand table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Miniature Black baby doll with a dark pink dress

created

Postcard of a man posing in a Western scene in a photography studio

created

Wool quilt with zigzag block design

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier with French and American flags

created

Cotton petticoat with floral eyelet trim

created

Manilla

created

Photographic postcard of Charles Wilbur Rogan with his unit in the Philippines

created

Tintype of man seated

created

Photograph of Reverend A. Wayman Ward

created

Pair of long silver gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Fans gathered around Harry Belefonte's limosine after the first birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

created

Flier in memory of Freddie Gray

created

<I>Detachment of the 372nd Infantry Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana</I>

created

<I>Patterson-Johansson 2 </I>

created

Orange comb from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Tintype of a unidentified young girl in a mailing card

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Photograph of three women

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Brown pinstripe suit jacket and skirt

created

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland

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Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair

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<I>Destini Directing Family Sequence</I>

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Glass stemware with gold decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Printing plate for "Mme C.J. Walker Beauty Shoppes"

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Photograph of a man wearing a suit, vest and necktie

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Cigarette caddy belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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<I>Panther Burn, Miss. 4-30-27</I>

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Tintype of African American woman with white child

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Ticket to a Tri-Benefit Performance of the Freedom Singers

created

High crown fabric hat with geometric print

created

Three framed medals won by Carl Lewis in Spartakiad and Pan American Games

created

Fabric fragments from a dress worn by Marian Anderson altered for Denyce Graves

created

Pinback button for Virgin Islands rum

created

Sticker for the New York City Breakers

created

Photograph of three men with three female performers in costume

created

Pin for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Printing plate of Technical Sergeant James Lewis

created

Printing plate of Dinah Shore

created

<I>Untitled</I>

created

Pin for honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with "For such a time as this, Esther 4:4"

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Whirligig in the form of a caricature of a boy holding a watermelon slice

created

Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden

created

Address stamp from the studio of H.C. Anderson

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Identification tag for C.P. More [sic]

created

Tintype of a Buffalo Soldier

created

Pinback button celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa

created

Wrist watch worn by Harriette Moore

created

Tweeter box speakers used as part of a DJ setup

created

Funeral program of Fannie Ezelle Hill with eulogy notes by Eddie Faye Gates

created

<I>Harry Belafonte holds the door open for the King children before getting into his limosine</I>

created

Photograph of a St. Augustine sports team

created

Brick made by an enslaved person

created

Pinback button supporting Keep Biafra Alive

created

Sign in the shape of the letter "L" used in a Black Men of Labor parade

created

Tintype of man saluting against a backdrop of Grant's Tomb

created

Stereograph of deceased Confederate soldiers near a fence at Antietam, Maryland

created

Georgia marriage license between Ezekiel Leonard and Marry Hammond

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson in nurse's uniform with nurses

created

Pinback button promoting "Black Power"

created

<I>Vicksburg, Miss. 5-3-27</I>

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Photograph of a man wearing a suit

created

Negative of a house with fence

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Rice tester

created

Photograph of Marlon Brando and Beah Richards

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Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Membership ribbon for the G.U.O.O.F Lodge No. 1717

created

Photo postcard of Addie Waites Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson at a YMCA camp

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Photographic print of children playing on a sidewalk

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Necklace associated with the Boa Morte sisterhood of Cachoeira

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Pinback button advocating for Huey Newton

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Blue headband with bow, feathers, and veil

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Photograph of Donald Mills and two men seated at a table

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Pink robe worn by Cab Calloway

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Advertisement card for Rev. S. A. Bostic

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Photographic print of 4 women sitting in front of a sofa

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Photograph of DJ Kool Herc with sound system at T-Connection

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Gelatin silver print of a man with a moustache wearing a hat

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Tintype of seated man

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Wooden hat mallet used by Yvonne DeVigne

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Red, blue, and cream embroidered bedcover

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Veteran ID Shield owned by Daniel Hammond

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Black brimless hat with glitter and rhinestones

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Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

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<I>Vineyard like 'one big family'</I>

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Pink satin scarf with brocaded flowers and fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Black wool double-tiered capelet with bows

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Patch with "CHICANO POWER"

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Silver and clear rhinestone pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Geometric print hat with bow

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Bundle of cream lace ribbon trim from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Photograph of Velma Middleton

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Horse hames owned by Carl Lyles

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Chromogenic print of Mr. & Mrs. Jackson in Shriner regalia

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Leaflet for the Dixie Jubilee Singers

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Pinback button for Eldridge Cleaver's presidential campaign

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins at a record console

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Wooden pestle

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Photograph of Louis Armstrong recording at the CBS Studio in New York

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<I>Scenery on Rio de Los Reyes, or Kings River, Sierra Nevada Mountains</I>

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Photographic print of children playing on the sidewalk

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Beaded necklace from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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White brimmed hat with lace trim and bow

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Prayer rug used by Imam Derrick Amin

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Photographic print of an unidentified child

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Digital print of Mae Reeves on Mother's Day

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Postcard of men, women, and children outside of a dwelling

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Photographic print of a woman standing by a gravesite

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Photograph of George Harold Falkener

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Hoe

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Black sequin hat

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Round rhinestone earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

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Wooden fork

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Silver brooch with textured decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of James Baldwin and Paula Baldwin

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Tintype of a Buffalo Soldier with musket

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<I>Shooting Car Sequence</I>

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Printing plate of Mildred Smith and Alfred Drake

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Photographic print of two couples standing outdoors

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White tailcoat with satin lapel

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Travel bag used by Tommie Smith for the 1968 Olympics

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Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II during the Vietnam War

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>Zygote</I>

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Quilt made from brown, blue, tan, and red suiting samples

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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<I>Seeking Rebirth</I>

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

created

Photographic postcard of a young boy

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Postcard of the Olympic Stadium in Rome owned by Dick Howard

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Fishing hat from the Powell family vacation cottage

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Painting of the New York City skyline from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Tintype of a seated woman

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Polaroid portrait of Kool Herc and Chuck Leonard at Stardust Ballroom

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Handwritten program from a rally in Ferguson, Missouri

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Violin bow owned by Bo Diddley

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Nine pieces of trimming materials from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Swan shaped ring holder owned by Ginger Smock

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Photographic postcard of a church congregation

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Iron shackles

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Adult in Open Casket, Post-Mortem

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Photographic print of a woman wearing large hoop earrings and a black drape

created

List of locations visited by Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry

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Receipt spindle from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

created

Photograph of Louise Graham and Joannie Floissac at Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Pinback button for promoting voting registration

created

Pinback button for the Philadelphia Stars

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Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform beret worn by Medina Rowell

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Hat with white daisies and ribbon

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Pink hat with feathers, fabric flowers, and ribbon

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Pinback button for the Virgin Islands

created

Film footage of a NAACP protest rally in Brooklyn, New York

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Postcard from a Grand United Order of Odd Fellows convention in Baltimore

created

Image of Cab Calloway performing in a production of Porgy & Bess

created

Digital image of a community meeting on the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Printing plate of Phyllis Smiley

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Printing plate used by the Chicago Defender

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Lizard wingtip shoes for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Pinback button supporting African Liberation

created

Photographic postcard of Charles Wilbur Rogan in the Philippines

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Registration certificate for an enslaved man named Eustaquio

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Red wool scarf worn by Joan Mulholland during a protest near the White House

created

Bust in the form of a caricatured man wearing a watermelon bow tie

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<I>Theater Workshop</I>

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Braided straw hat

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Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

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Manilla

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Pinback button for a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.

created

Brass stencil for William Hill

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Gelatin silver print of a man with sleeves rolled up

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier

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Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia

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Color polaroid of Julius Carry as Sho'Nuff

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Plate with Uncle Tom's Cabin illustration

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Photographic portrait of Lt. Colonel Charles J. Blackwood

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<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Egremont, Miss. 5-2-27</I>

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Hosiery bag used by Dinah Washington

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Black feather boa from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Birdie Warfield Edison and an unidentified man

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<I>Choral musical performance at the first birthday celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

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Leather tool basket

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Bracelet from the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival

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Landscape photograph of Cumberland River

created

Sequined net capelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of a man with a beard wearing a dark colored suit and vest

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Photograph of Odessa Jones Murray in front of a car

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Color card photograph of Ron Stander

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Flier advertising an Anti-Facism Rally

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Embroidered patch for Ice Hockey in Harlem

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Dashiki worn by Ellsworth Janifer

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Pink flower hat with velvet bow and pin

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Brick

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Manuscript of Emancipation Proclamation on card

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Photograph of a female performer in costume

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Ku Klux Klan hood worn by Phineas Miller Wilds

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Red and green applique top for a bedcover

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Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Color card photograph of Joe Frazier

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Hay fork

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Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress

created

<I>Rolling Fork, Miss. 5-2-27</I>

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Photograph of a man and two women seated at a table

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Cotton patchwork hat with bow

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth

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Black polypropylene straw pillbox hat

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Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse

created

Framed black and white photograph of a WWI soldier holding a rifle

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<I>Company C 367th Infantry "Just back from France"</I>

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Wooden fork

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Photographic print of Millie Small, Vincent Chin, and an unidentified woman

created

Broadside for a James Brown concert in Shanghai

created

Pennant for the New York Cuban Stars

created

Photographic print of women and children outside

created

Gavel used by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

created

Football trading card for Warren Moon

created

Coin bank in the form of "Mammy"

created

Photograph of the senior officers of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company

created

Pinback button with saying "Let's get it on"

created

<I>Not a project, 1963, USA, The March on Washington</I>

created

Black floral brocade handbag

created

Promotional Cotton Club mallet owned by Cab Calloway

created

Photograph of Political Forum reception with Charles Diggs and J. Ernest Wilkins

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson, Samuel M. Jackson Jr and two women

created

Sign for the Poor People’s Campaign Headquarters

created

Ticket for funeral services for Martin Luther King, Jr. owned by Nina Simone

created

Photograph of Josephite priest Phil Berrigan performing a sodalist communion

created

Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign

created

Photograph of Mahalia Jackson with Dr. Martin Luther King

created

Ancient Order of Hibernians medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Photographic postcard portrait of Margarette Davenport in costume

created

Portrait print of Martin Luther King, Jr. from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Coretta Scott King talking with the press after the first birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>

created

Tintype portrait of a man wearing a fur hat

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Placard reading "Justice 4 Trayvon"

created

Printed inspirational quote from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Black nightgown with lace bodice and pleated skirt

created

Pinback button with "Liberate Aunt Jemima" slogan

created

Print of Cab Calloway standing in front of a French sign

created

<I>A Decatur County Farmer Replies</I>

created

Shrub hook

created

Wooden handle

created

Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

created

Photographic print of a group of young men and women standing in 3 rows

created

Colorized portrait of Joel Reeves

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins inside a pharmacy

created

Photograph of a woman dancing

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Cotton envelope chemise with lace trim

created

High crown fabric hat with multicolored palm tree print

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Photograph of an unidentified Buffalo Soldier with a mustache

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Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar

created

Photograph of a man and two chorus girls from Club Plantation

created

Ku Klux Klan robe

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Rice fanner basket made in Senegal

created

Box of spare buttons from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

<I>Jet vol. 75 no. 12</I>

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Lobby card for Lying Lips

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Long gloves belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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<I>PICKING STRAWBERRIES PLANT CITY, FLA.</I>

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Uniform vest owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

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Photograph of the Home Benefit Burial Club’s first funeral in Earle, Arkansas

created

Photograph of James Baldwin and friends sitting outside around a table

created

<I>Animating</I>

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Photograph of Chief Anderson, General "Chappie" James, Jr., and Daniel James III

created

Placard from March on Washington "WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW"

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

Pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Flier for “The International Heavyweight Rappers Showdown Part II” by C. Rock 84

created

Ambrotype of a woman seated with a hat in her lap

created

Placard calling for reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Journalist pass for Super Bowl XLVI owned by Jim Vance

created

Pin shaped like a boxing glove

created

Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington playing on drum set

created

Photograph of Fitz Lee

created

Pinback button for the Urban League of Greater New Haven

created

<I>Untitled</I>

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Handmade sistrum composed of split tree limb and tin can

created

Photograph of Sun-Reporter Political Forum participants and organizers

created

Jointed figure in the form of a caricature of a boy holding a candle

created

Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform

created

Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"

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Drinking glass from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button reading "Millennials for Stacey Abrams"

created

Printing plate of Claire Margaret Jones

created

Thimble from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Nation of Islam University of Islam drill team uniform worn by Myrtle K. Hopkins

created

Photograph of Dr. Arthur Townsend with two others in a barn doorway

created

Pinback button reading Teach the Children the Truth

created

Portrait photograph of James J. Bryant

created

Banner with motto of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

created

Male to male audio cord used by J Dilla

created

Photograph of a woman, Jeannie

created

Wooden fork

created

Window hook from Charleston, South Carolina

created

Photograph of The Merry Matrons Club

created

White gloves worn by Eugene Allen

created

Quilt made from gray, black, brown, blue, and red suiting samples

created

Axe

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Identification button used by Thomas Porter II

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Overshot coverlet made by an unidentified weaver near Edgefield, South Carolina

created

Ankle shackles

created

Cream and rust skull cap with net

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Cleveland Indians pencil from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Jabot owned by Harriet Tubman

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Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 8

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Brick

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Photographic postcard with photos of Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries

created

Picture postcard of a North Carolina Convict Camp

created

Photographic print of Ice-T

created

Logo pin for Power membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Mission style rocking chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Pair of black gloves with ruffled cuffs from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Cowbell used Pete Cosey

created

Chromogenic print of the Jackson tombstone

created

Photograph of a man and two women

created

Medal box owned by Richard Howard

created

Albumen print of African American Odd Fellows in front of a grandstand

created

Photograph of Don Redman

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Director's chair cover for Bernadine Anderson from the Harlem Nights set

created

"Pussy Power Hat" worn during the Women's March on Washington

created

Hoop and key earring worn by Janet Jackson

created

Photograph portrait of an unidentified man

created

Handwritten note about Roger Williams University

created

High crown fabric hat with striped and circular pattern

created

Ten fabric tags for Mae Reeves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Remember Pearl Harbor pin owned by Ck2c George Francis Bland

created

Contemporary manilla

created

Sign used for segregating transportation terminal seating area

created

Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

created

Photograph of four employees outside Atlanta Life

created

Photograph of Rev. John B. Randolph and a church event program

created

Cast iron kettle owned by members of the Ellis family

created

Token with KKK slogans "SYMWAO," "MIAFA" and "Non Silba Sed Anthar"

created

Quilt made from suiting samples with embroidered flower details

created

Photograph of a wooden house

created

Photographic postcard of J. J. Cotten Barbershop

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Kid gloves worn by Florance Trevor

created

Photograph of the Tolon Na presenting a carved elephant to Frank N. D. Buchman

created

Knife with leather sheath

created

Brimless mulitcolored sequined hat

created

Spool of white string from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Wooden fork

created

Cream wool top hat

created

Cabinet card of a Civil War veteran at 11th Indiana Monument at Chickamauga

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Photographic postcard of two men in studio posing with a horse

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic portrait of Maxine Sullivan

created

Cream silk parasol owned by members of the Ellis family

created

Printing plate of William Dawson and Edward Brinkley Howard

created

<I>Mrs. Coretta Scott King arrives at Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

created

Lounge chair with red and black cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Walking toy in the form of a caricatured porter

created

Photograph of a girl reading

created

Photograph of Negro History Week display at The Emporium

created

Pennant for the New York Black Yankees

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Pinback button for Clinton - Gore 1992 presidential campaign

created

Brown plastic hair comb from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Handmade sistrum composed of split tree limb and tin can

created

Black top hat from Hello Dolly worn by Cab Callaway

created

Wood bowl

created

Iron cooking pot hook from the Brock Plantation

created

<I>Masonic Catch-E-Kism: Some Old Masonic Catch Questions and Some New Ones With the Answers</I>

created

<I>Shooting Final Sequence</I>

created

Photographic postcard of two women unidentified women

created

Digital image of Charles Ogletree Jr., Dr. Olivia Hooker, Otis Clark, and others

created

Pinback button promoting the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program

created

Photograph of a St. Augustine High School student drawing in art class

created

Photographic print of a Samuel M. Jackson, Jr. sitting on a chair in the lawn

created

Gold, blue, and tan Goblet pattern quilt

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Model 1854 Lorenz rifle

created

Receipt from Photo Supply Ltd. from the studio of H.C. Anderson

created

<I>Theater Workshop</I>

created

Quilt clamp

created

Copper rice tester

created

Photograph of Chickie Collins, standing in a field

created

Pinback buttons for Black History Month

created

Photograph of Louise Graham and Joannie Floissac at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Wedding veil with cream flowers

created

Cattle branding iron used by the Bell family

created

Photographic print of two unidentified men outdoors

created

Advertisement for Madam C. J. Walker products

created

Program for a boxing match between Jimmy Ellis and Joe Frazier

created

Photograph of Marty May

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Photograph of James Baldwin standing with David Baldwin and Leonard Bernstein

created

Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

created

Handbill from James Brown concert at the Pleasure Pier Ballroom

created

Souvenir photograph from the Down Beat Swing Room

created

Gold wine glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Advertisement card for the Blair Gospel Singers

created

Razor blade hidden in the toilet of prison cell no. 3 at Angola prison

created

Photograph of James Brown sitting in a chair, waving with his left hand

created

Tintype portrait of Col. C. W. Folsom

created

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

created

Twenty-one assorted buttons from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Rod with plate

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<I>Final Script</I>

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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with an unidentified man

created

Tintype of a baby surrounded by lace coverlet

created

Photograph of DJ Kool Herc with friends at T-Connection

created

<I>Old Transit in Southern Mississippi.</I>

created

Ancient Order of Hibernians medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

created

Pinback button for the 1963 March on Washington

created

Carte-de-visite of an young boy holding a rifle in Napa, California

created

Slate notebook used by Bishop Benjamin Tanner

created

Spike

created

Architectural molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina

created

<I>MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole</I>

created

Bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Necklace for The Wiz costume worn by André De Shields

created

Photograph of Gilbert DeLorme, Sr., Atlanta Life Insurance Company

created

Ceremonial IBPOEW collar received by Laura O. B. Frazier

created

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

created

Funeral program of Henry Clay Whitlow, Jr.

created

Shoulder patch insignia 92nd Infantry Division

created

Photograph of the President's Mansion of Roger Williams University

created

Red suit owned by James Brown

created

Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman seated with a book

created

Photographic print of a busy day at Randy's Records

created

Pinback button from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign

created

Pinback button for the Democratic Party with LGBTQ rainbow stripes

created

Photograph of Frances Albrier wearing a Red Cross uniform

created

<I>The Huckster</I>

created

Hollow-cut silhouette of Ebenezer Dickey

created

Green brocade dress with rhinestones sequins and beads

created

Brown hat with pheasant feather brim

created

Brick

created

<I>Weekend, Volume 9, Number 52</I>

created

Window card for The Bronze Venus

created

<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Cary, Miss. 5-1-27</I>

created

<I>Greenville, Miss. South from R. R. Water Tank 4-30-27</I>

created

Woven basket purse with floral design from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Small box respirator

created

Pinback button for the Dixwell Summer Festival

created

Photographic postcard of Charles Wilbur Rogan with his unit in the Philippines

created

Photograph of Velma Middleton and an unidentified woman at a piano

created

Kissi iron currency

created

Adult in Open Casket, Post- Mortem

created

Advertisement for paperback novel Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

created

Lamp hand-painted by Julian F. Abele

created

Cloth bag owned by Pete Cosey

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with “When you hurt me you hurt yourself"

created

Black velveteen pillbox hat with net

created

Pinback button promoting My Name Is Jermaine album

created

Tinted photograph of young Mae Reeves

created

<I>A Victim of Tulsa Race Riot, 6-1-21</I>

created

Identification tag for Civil War soldier Qualls Tibbs

created

<I>1960Now Portfolio (A): Untitled</I>

created

Sign from Women's March on Washington with "When They Go Low We Go High"

created

Cast iron skillet owned and used by Beatrice Mack

created

Badge from the Philadelphia First Masonic District Temple cornerstone-laying

created

Photographic print of 3 men and 2 women sitting in front of Jack's Memory Chapel

created

Photograph of Laura Cathrell and a man

created

Floor-length gown worn by Janet Jackson as Mae West costume

created

Square brick made by an enslaved person

created

Bag of black checkers pieces used by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

created

Eye mask beloning to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Medallion depicting Prince Hall

created

Program for a Reconsecration service at Murphy AME Church

created

Group portrait of women outside

created

Pinback button against the Vietnam War

created

Photograph of Lori Waselchuk photographing a quilt

created

Photographic postcard portrait of a cowboy

created

Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier

created

Kard with sheath owned by Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls

created

Black and silver knob

created

Albumen print of mebers of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

created

Grand Army of the Republic pendant owned by Marquis Peterson

created

Wire cutters

created

Photographic print of four men and one woman

created

Patch commemorating Lockland Wayne 1955 state champion basketball team

created

Postcard addressed to Amanda Carter regarding a midwife meeting

created

Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics

created

Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

created

Lace tablecloth from the home of Lucinda Todd

created

Photograph of a man

created

Bed warmer

created

Meat hook

created

Print of Cab Calloway with his band and dancers from the movie The Singing Kid

created

Flyer advertising a concert featuring Raphy Leavitt y La Selecta

created

Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing with other musicians in a recording studio

created

Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

created

Clear beaded necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Shooting Arrest Sequence</I>

created

Pin for a life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

Shoulder patch for the 93rd Infantry Division "Blue Helmets"

created

<I>Members of the military gather on Auburn Avenue outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church</I>

created

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

created

Photograph of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson seated with a group at a table

created

Walking toy in the form of a caricatured porter

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Photographic print of Joe Louis shaking hands with unidentified man

created

Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress

created

Five pieces of hat veiling from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

created

Photograph of people sitting in Hunt’s Cafe in Earle, Arkansas

created

Leaflet for Club de Memo

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Pantile shard

created

Brick

created

Contemporary manilla

created

Photograph album of Booker T. Washington High School Queen and King Hornet

created

<I>Preparing Dinner in the Dining Car Kitchen</I>

created

Ornate metal and glass perfume bottle from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>Students from Clark College gathered around Dr. King's tomb at Southview Cemetery</I>

created

<I>Mel 'n' Me (Melle Mel of the Furious 5 and Harry Allen)</I>

created

Photograph of two baseball players

created

Cone-shaped faux pearl earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of a barn on the estate of Harriet Tubman

created

Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Table knocker from the Elk's Rendezvous nightclub

created

Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Rice fanner basket

created

Hook engraved with "WJ"

created

<I>Community Film Showing</I>

created

Photographic print of three men including Joseph Abrams and Boisie Pryor

created

Pair of silver openwork metal accessories from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Doll figurine

created

Wooden ruler from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Wooden field cradle

created

Cross pendant owned by Terrell family

created

Print of a Tech Corporal with a Special Services Division insignia

created

Desk with hutch belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Poster for the Public Enemy album There's a Poison Goin On

created

Photographic print of a man

created

Broadside from the N.A.A.C.P. for citizenship for Our Lady Queen of Peace Church

created

Sliding caliper used by Dr. Montague Cobb

created

Partial brick made by an enslaved person

created

Tintype of James Washington

created

Photograph of Suliaman El-Hadi

created

Photographic postcards of Ezel Adams and Johnell Perkins

created

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

created

Chromogenic print of of Julius Carry as Sho'Nuff

created

Ku Klux Klan hood

created

Tulle and gold snood belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth

created

Green headband with bows and veil

created

<I>Tell me dat you lobe me darling.</I>

created

Photographic print of Orville Williams and Cliff Jackson

created

Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

created

Placard stating "HONOR KING: END RACISM" carried in 1968 Memphis March

created

Postcard with images of National Baptist Convention members in the Bahamas

created

Pinback button for Harold Washington mayoral campaign

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

<I>Little Africa On Fire (Tulsa Race Riot June 1st. 1921)</I>

created

Margin trowel used by Black Men of Labor, Inc.

created

Commemorative indigo resist textile with flowers and portrait of Barack Obama

created

Framed photograph of an unidentified WWI sailor

created

Gelatin silver print of a violinist

created

Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds

created

Make-do dough bowl with pestle

created

Rake head

created

Scythe

created

National Medal of Arts received by Cab Calloway

created

Photograph of unidentified Pittsburgh-based member of I.B.P.O.E.W. in regalia

created

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

created

<I>In the Wake of the Mob: An Illustrated Story of Riot, Ruin and Rage</I>

created

Ambrotype of Qualls Tibbs, 5th Sergeant, 27th U.S.C.T., Camp Delaware, Ohio

created

<I>Preparing Shot Schedule</I>

created

Photo of press meeting with the coordinator of the Citizenship Education Project

created

Change purse belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Group portrait with James A. Parsons, Jr.

created

Photographic postcard of Pullman Porter, T.R. Joseph

created

Logo pin for Blazing New Trails membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

created

<I>Negro Slain in Tulsa Riot, June 1-1921</I>

created

Photographic print of Cliff Jackson and an unidentified man

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

Photograph of a female performer in costume

created

Photograph of a Gobs of Rhythm and Algiers Naval Air Station Band performance

created

Mule snubber

created

Set of seven photographic prints of unidentified people

created

<I>Activism</I>

created

Raincoat worn by Melody Starya Mobley

created

Pinback button for the National Welfare Rights Organization

created

Photograph of members of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry

created

Agenda for a midwife meeting, July 21, 1958

created

Caftan worn Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey

created

Pair of white gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pinback button with "LGBTQ+ for Stacey Abrams"

created

Purple, gold, and rhinestone hat pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Blue and white check pattern pajama set

created

US Army Jungle tiger fatigues worn by Sergeant James E. Moss

created

Broken wood spoon

created

Pair of black leather gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Blue felt hat with braided hat band

created

Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record

created

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

created

Handmade wood and metal washboard

created

Ruled bound notebook from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Honor Roll students at St. Augustine High School

created

Color photo of Mae Reeves at age 85

created

Mask shaped sign used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, LA

created

Tweeter box speakers used as part of a DJ setup

created

Photographic postcard from the Tula Race Riot, June 1, 1921

created

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet

created

US Army green service uniform belt worn by General Colin L. Powell

created

Fan used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans

created

Photograph of unidentified man

created

Playbill for A Raisin in the Sun with insert essay ‘Sweet Lorraine'

created

Ring for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Photographic postcard of a boy wearing a double-breasted jacket and breeches

created

Photograph of sisters, Dorothy and Vivian Dandridge

created

Handbill for an Alabama suffrage campaign

created

Postcard addressed to Amanda Carter

created

<I>1960Now Portfolio (A): Untitled</I>

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Hampton 5-11-27</I>

created

Photograph of Thomas W. Holmes and family

created

Charleston slave badge from 1850 for Mechanic No. 23

created

Glass front bookcase owned by members of the Ellis family

created

<I>The Negro: His Future in America</I>

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Bullet from Point of Pines Plantation

created

Photographic print of Joe Louis with an unidentified man and boy

created

Photograph of soldiers behind a barricade during the Newark Riots

created

Trade token for the Sanitary Dairy of Barnesville, OH owned by Marquis Peterson

created

Pinback button for the Democratic Party with LGBTQ rainbow stripes

created

Photograph of Augusta Savage's sulpture, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)

created

Draw hoe blade fragment from Elizafield Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia

created

<I>Shooting Prison Sequence</I>

created

Flier advertising S.S. Jones farewell meeting

created

Pinback button reading "14th Congress Billings"

created

Tintype of Prince Shorts

created

Photograph of Bobby Ryland and another man at Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

created

Photograph of World War II soldiers from Company D, 8th Battalion, Ft. Belvoir

created

Photographic print of Orville L. Williams

created

Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins standing at a WJW microphone

created

Gold necklace with Africa pendant to promote Nina Simone's Black Gold album

created

Photograph portrait of a woman in a black dress

created

Brick from Virginia-Cleveland Hall at Hampton University

created

Gelatin silver print of a woman in a ruffled dress

created

Ribbons and fabrics from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Lounge chair with red and black cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

created

Mink fur trim

created

Paperweight commemorating the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building

created

Commemorative bell from the 1883 Swiss National Exhibition

created

Season ticket for the St. Louis Browns baseball team

created

Photograph of Chickie Collins and an unidentified woman

created

Souvenir spoon depicting a caricature of a boy and an alligator

created

Program for a boxing match between Joe Frazier and George Foreman

created

Photograph of a small child playing with two cats at the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Photograph of Birdie Warfield Edison standing in boat

created

Serving spoon

created

Printing plate of Cortez Peters

created

Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Falkener

created

Photograph of members of the 20th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam

created

Flier for “Ecstasy Garage Disco” designed by Buddy Esquire

created

Novelty opium apothecary jar owned by Hazel Scott

created

Archival process photo for "I, Destini"

created

Photograph portrait of Colin L. Powell with wife and children

created

Hatpin with black rhinestone and gold decorations from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

<I>California Rodeo, Salinas, 1919</I>

created

Tintype of Theodore Tennant

created

Advertising card for Rev. S. M. Clark

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldier with quartermaster PFC patch

created

Electric bell used by the Pullman Company

created

Pinback button for the New York Black Yankees

created

Flyer announcing a speech by Dean G.A. FFrench-Beytagh

created

Cabinet card of Mrs. Millie Gibson Hale

created

Flier for “Patricia Hearon Birthday Party" designed by Van Silk

created

<I>Chared Negro Killed in Tulsa Riot 6-1-1921</I>

created

Pry bar

created

Mud pan

created

Thirteen spools of thread from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Coquina fragment

created

Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at Le Zebre a Carreaux

created

Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family

created

Mae Reeves Hat Designs presentation board

created

Photograph of Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella with Brooklyn Dodger teammates

created

Olympic wappen patch from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics owned by Marilyn White

created

Poster advertising a concert for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on October 6, 1958

created

Model of the conjoined brains of Ladan and Lalah Bijani used by Dr. Ben Carson

created

Photograph of a crowd of people walking toward a building in Tulsa

created

Pinback button for the Bed-Stuy neighborhood

created

Photograph folder from the Ubangi Club

created

Photographic postcard of an unidentified woman

created

Chromogenic print of the outside of Jack's Memory Chapel

created

Pair of salt and pepper shakers in form of "Mammy" and "Chef"

created

Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield

created

Ceremonial basket adorned with cowrie shells

created

Photographic print of a man on horseback

created

Commemorative coins from Barack Obama's first inauguration

created

<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Longwood 5-11-27</I>

created

Letter from and photomechanical print of Rev. John B. Randolph

created

Advertisement card for the Holiness Youth Crusade in Detroit, Michigan

created

Ring for The Wiz costume worn by André De Shields

created

Tintype of an African American woman with two white children

created

Photograph of McDew, Hansberry, Simone, Bikel, and Forman

created

Photograph of two chorus girls from Club Plantation

created

Photograph portrait of Samuel Grant

created

Photographic print of a man and woman standing in front of a car

created

Ambrotype of Frederick Douglass

created

Coal scuttle owned by members of the Ellis family

created

Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey on the beach

created

Photographic print of Mrs. Jackson and Samuel Jackson Jr. with a car

created

Green chaplain stole used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

created

Photograph of two WWI soldiers sitting in a foxhole

created

Brotherman comic sketchbook illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

<I>WASECA - BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: WORKING IN THE BEAN FIELDS</I>

created

Flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee’s Birthday”

created

Pinback button with the text "I Am An AfroAmerican"

created

<I>Y. & M. V. R. R. Station Onward, Miss. 5-2-27</I>

created

Faux pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

US Forest Service uniform pants worn by Melody Starya Mobley

created

Photograph of a soldier standing next to a pedestal

created

Desk used by Robert Sengstacke

created

Yellow striped dress with asymmetrical collar

created

Memorial card for Robert Riethmiller from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Broadside for the House of Blues featuring a concert by James Brown and others

created

<I>S.M. at new facility- 639 E. Marshall Pl.</I>

created

Photograph of Sgt. Henry James Lomax

created

Photographic print of Louise Tucker

created

National Championship belt presented to Ezzard Charles

created

Decorative architectural element shaped like an acanthus leaf

created

<I>Shooting Prayer Sequence</I>

created

Seed cleaning screen

created

<I>Shooting "Smiles" Sequence</I>

created

Flier for “A Double Celebration” by Sound 2 Productions

created

Wreath shaped pin with faux pearls from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Hat with yellow and orange flower appliqué

created

<I>Loading the "Chuck" Wagon</I>

created

White and pink ceramic vase from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Business card owned by Dwayne McDuffie

created

Photographic print of Sam Cooke and Betty Jo Spyropulos at Club Harlem

created

Chromogenic print of six women standing around a decorated dining table

created

Black beaded box bag from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Sterling spoon engraved for Mary Eliza Church

created

Carte-de-visite of two children

created

Photograph of flight attendant Casey Grant working mid-flight on a 757

created

Black clutch purse with knotted cordwork from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Monogrammed playing cards owned by Mary Church Terrell

created

Photograph of Birdie Warfield Edison with two unidentified men

created

Black dress sock from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Pair of black socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Pantile shard

created

Sugar bowl from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photographic print of women, Rosetta, Grace, Ellen, and Ruby, sitting on steps

created

Pair of black fingerless gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

created

Match case owned by Terrell family

created

Brown fringed suede jacket worn by Arthur Lee

created

<I>The Twenty-fourth Annual Convention of the P.P.B.A. of A and National Women's Auxiliar</I>

created

Printing plate of Sheila Guyse

created

Photograph of a woman

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and friends at the Challenger Inn, Idaho

created

Printing plate of Fannie Cook

created

Baseball from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

created

<I>Last photo shoot of Gordon Parks-2005 Tony & Gordon</I>

created

British manilla

created

Photographic postcard of soldiers of L Company, 25th Infantry

created

Souvenir program for Memphis Bound!

created

Spool of pink ribbon from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photograph of Marion McClinton and Benjamin Mordecai

created

Cased ambrotype of seated man

created

Ticket stub for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

created

Halftone print portrait of Bishop James W. Hood

created

Red and white pieced and appliqued star quilt

created

Red straw hat

created

<I>Away Down Among the Cotton and the Coons, Louisiana, U.S.A. / Lejos en Medio de los Algodoneros, Louisiana, E.U. de A.</I>

created

Barber comb owned by Cab Calloway

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of Bessie Durr in a white dress

created

Poster advertising Fats Waller's performance at Empire Theatre at Finsbury Park

created

Color photograph of Ice Hockey in Harlem students in 1994 Stanley Cup parade

created

<I>Students from the Atlanta University Center visit Dr. Martin Luther King's Tomb at Southview Cemetery</I>

created

Gym bag used by Cassius Clay

created

Pinback button of Nelson Mandela

created

Photographic postcard portrait of a man wearing a hat and overalls

created

Rhinestone choker worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Photograph of Harriet Tubman's residence in Auburn, New York

created

Program for Harry James and Nina Simone with Buddy Rich, Ruth Price, John Byner

created

Track to Bobsledding crossover medallion owned by Vonetta Flowers

created

Black handbag from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Albumen Print of the congregation of St. Nicholas Church in Maryland

created

Flier advertising "My Old Friends" at the American Jewish Theatre

created

Roster for Company D 807th Pioneer Infantry Camp #2 Haussimont. (Marne), France

created

Metal cosmetic case with rhinestones and beads from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Student grade book from Tenn A&I, 1956-1957

created

Pinback button for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign

created

Flier for an African American Resource Machine benefit with Eldridge Cleaver

created

Photographic print of Charles H. Houston, Jr. as a child on tricycle

created

Pinback button for T.W.S.

created

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson with her brother, John A. Cloman

created

Photgraphic print of Paul Kendrick Bryant

created

Photograph of Dr. William H. Conner and family outside their home

created

Program from the 1957 National Council of Negro Women annual convention

created

Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City

created

Green bead and rhinestone earrings worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

British manilla

created

Straw hat with brown ribbon

created

Pair of elbow length cream leather gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett and her husband Claude A. Barnett

created

Photograph of an unidentified woman

created

Spreading calipers used by Dr. Montague Cobb

created

Square desk calendar owned by the Terrell family

created

Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

created

Red and white star pattern quilt

created

Heirloom Saxon violin and bow

created

Pinback buttons for an African Street Festival

created

<I>Coons and Melons</I>

created

Pinback button with "Vote" from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign

created

Whisk brush carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

created

Photograph of a man wearing a suit and necktie

created

Photograph of a man speaking at an Atlanta Life Insurance Company reception

created

Doll parts from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Wooden table from Cedar Grove plantation

created

Wooden prayer beads owned by Suliaman El-Hadi

created

Leather harness with sleigh bells from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Electric guitar instrument cable owned by Jim Vance

created

<I>Street Scene (Auburn Avenue outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church)</I>

created

Tintype of a woman and four children

created

Placard with "STOP RACISM NOW" message

created

Photographic print of Cliff Jackson

created

Photographic print of of a boy standing in front of a house

created

Photograph of Abiodun Oyewole and Jalal Nuriddin

created

Pinback name tag from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

created

Broadside announcing the sale of enslaved persons in Mercer County, Kentucky

created

Gelatin silver print of Fats Navarro and friend

created

Negative of Dr. A. M. Townsend

created

Photograph album page with three photographs

created

Printing plate of Eloise Shearer

created

Photograph of the 1929 Tuskegee Institute men's basketball team

created

Black and white poster with a photograph of Muhammad Ali and Pelé

created

Photographic postcard of soldiers in World War I at Verdun

created

Amber rhinestone bracelet from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Dress worn by Marie Monroe of Rosewood, Florida

created

Black bodice with lace collar and jet beading

created

Pair of elbow length white gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Splitting maul

created

Pinback button with the Milestone logo owned by Dwayne McDuffie

created

Pin with green and pink rhinestones from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Drafting compass owned by Julian Abele Cook Sr.

created

Photographic print of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat standing outdoors

created

Printing plate of Venice Spraggs used by The Chicago Defender

created

Tintype of a young woman with a white child

created

Photographic print of four men sitting around a table

created

Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

Red hat with beaded flower and orange hat band

created

Charleston Neck slave badge from 1848 for Porter No. 74

created

Pinback button promoting the arrival of the National African American Museum

created

Gold filigree necklace worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Large rhinestone and silver metal ring from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Drinking glass advertising Hazel Scott performances at L'Olympia

created

Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Photograph of six female dancers performing at Club 845

created

Knot of thread from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Blue turban-style hat

created

Photograph of an unidentified woman in a shawl

created

Flag of the 9th Regiment of United States Volunteers

created

Wooden school desk from Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

created

Pillow sham with Tuskegee Flying School poem

created

Photograph of Lue Swarz

created

Pinback button for the Assembly of Unrepresented People

created

Sign in the shape of the letter "M" used in a Black Men of Labor parade

created

Photograph of a barn

created

Photograph of Felton W. Williams Jr. playing an electric console steel guitar

created

Funeral program of Juanita Parry

created

Certificate for Brazilian ship carrying seven enslaved persons

created

<I>Early Animation</I>

created

Bullet from Point of Pines Plantation

created

Photographic postcard of a woman

created

<I>Black Americans in the Spanish People's War Against Fascism 1936-1939</I>

created

Photographic postcard of a WWI soldier standing at attention

created

Poster for The Four Inkspots and the N.B.C. Orchestra

created

Cast iron hanging kettle cauldron

created

Penca de Balangandã

created

"Mammy" cloth doll with a red and floral dress and a matching floral kerchief

created

Black and cream printed bonnet

created

<I>An invited speaker addresses the audience inside Ebenezer Baptist Church at the first birthday celebration of Dr. King in 1969</I>

created

Pinback button with quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

created

<I>Marian Anderson</I>

created

Pinback button for the Million Family March

created

Flier for a pre-march Freedom Rally for the Meredith Marchers

created

Shoe buffer from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

created

Sickle

created

Meat hook

created

Miniature Black baby doll with a dark pink dress and red hair bows

created

Mounted photograph portrait of a woman wearing a fur stole

created

Carte de visite of Sgt. Jacob Johns (19th USCT)

created

Pinback button for the Student Mobilization Committee

created

Static Shock action figure owned by Dwayne McDuffie

created

Poster from Women's March on Washington with “hands off my pussy” graphic

created

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat

created

Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and two unidentified men at Bennett College

created

Chromogenic print of Frances Albrier with two unidentified women

created

Autographed photograph of Eubie Blake playing the piano

created

Marionette in the form of a caricatured man

created

Tintype of a seated woman

created

Photographic postcard of a seated WWI soldier

created

Dance card for the University of Illinois Senior Ball

created

Four Mae Reeves business cards from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Ivory evening dress with rhinestone detail

created

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

created

Chromogenic print of a man standing with his arms around two ladies

created

Pocket chains for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

created

Rhinestone drip necklace worn by Ophelia DeVore

created

Photograph portrait of a man dressed as a cowboy

created

Calendar from 1956

created

Newspaper clipping about student artists at Coolidge High School

created

Sign from segregated Nashville bus number 351

created

<I>Scott 5-10-27</I>

created

Photograph of a baseball player and a woman

created

Poster from Women's March on Washington with “We’re NOT going back”

created

Program for a boxing match between Ron Stander and Joe Frazier

created

Autographed Justice League Unlimited finale script cover and illustrated cell

created

Inkwell owned by James Baldwin

created

Photograph of a female performer in costume at the Rose Room

created

Apron owned by Harriet Tubman

created

Cabinet card of John H. Scott

created

Sitar with tumba, acoustic pickup, and extra strings owned by Pete Cosey

created

White t-shirt for The Angolite worn by Wilbert Rideau

created

Straw hat worn during the 1966 March Against Fear

created

Colander used by Chef Joseph Randall

created

Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

created

Broadside for the musical drama "Out of Bondage"

created

<I>Civil Rights! Miscegenation Allowed by Congress, Despite the Veto of the President</I>

created

Cabinet card of a WWI soldier in uniform

created

Straw hat from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

created

Printing plate of Alberta Long

created

Ivory ribbed children's dress with eyelet embroidery

created

Volunteer badge from the 2008 Obama campaign

created

Pencil and paper business records from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Pages of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma

created

<I>National Guard Machine Gun Crew during Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21</I>

created

American Woodmen banner for Georgetown Camp No. 4

created

Photographic print of Joe Louis shaking hands with unidentified man

created

Pinback button for Donald M. Payne's U.S. Congress campaign

created

Carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels

created

Pinback button in support of Community Action Programs

created

Postcard for The Official "Party With A Purpose" Afterparty, MMM 20th Anniv.

created

Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue

created

Pinback button from the inauguration of President Obama

created

Lafayette College Medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

created

Mask shaped sign used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, LA

created

Sweat shirt with the slogan "Just a Cracker from Georgia"

created

Square rhinestone brooch from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

NAACP Image Award received by Della Reese

created

Gray knit hat with brown hat band and bow

created

Photographic postcard featuring an oval portrait of a young child

created

Color photograph of Delta Air Lines flight attendant Casey Grant

created

Stereograph card of of an unidentified woman

created

Flier for “The Zulu Nation 5th Anniversary" designed by Eddie Ed

created

Red beaded clutch belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

created

Lapel pin in the shape of a wagon worn by Colin L. Powell

created

Skirt from Muslim Girls' Training and General Civilization Class uniform

created

Photograph of Dwayne McDuffie and Captain James A. Lovell

created

Braided field whip

created

Photograph of an unidentified man in front of car

created

Pink flower pillbox hat

created

Pinback button for a Kwanzaa Expo

created

Digital image of a community meeting on the Tulsa Race Massacre

created

Photographic print of a woman hugging a man in a suit in front of a building

created

Leather leggings worn by Peter L. Robinson, Sr. during World War I

created

High crown fabric hat with mask print

created

Suede cap with tri-color panels

created

Red synthetic straw hat

created

<I>Dr. Wendell P. Whalum of Morehouse College conducts the Morehouse College Glee Club</I>

created

Shoe hoe blade

created

Postcard of a woman holding a baby

created

Photograph of Althea Gibson with travel gear

created

Ku Klux Klan Night Hawk robe used by Stetson Kennedy

created

Chromogenic print of John A. Cloman Sr.'s tombstone

created

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

created

Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin owned by Lt. Louise Lomax

created

Photographic portrait of a soldier inside decorative military frame

created

Signed clipping with image of Billy Eckstine and his wife, June Harris

created

Flier for the film King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

created

Photographic postcard of WWI soldiers

created

Tintype of a young woman with a white baby

created

Oval mirrored tray with gold metal frame from Mae's Millinery Shop

created

Conga played by Ray Barretto

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Maj. Hall

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Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey

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Photograph of Suliaman El-Hadi with two unidentified men

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Christening gown with floral eyelet embroidery

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Puerto Rican registration form for enslaved persons, Maricelle Ana and Mauricio

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Photographic print of three women standing in front of a brick building

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Photograph of Laura Cathrell and a group of men and women at a party

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<I>Young Lords Party: Health, Food, Housing, Education</I>

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Photographic postcard of Jalal Nuriddin and Suliaman El-Hadi

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign reading "Hope Wins"

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Skirt worn by an enslaved ancestor of Janett Sharee Galloway

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Cradle made by an unidentified enslaved person

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Petition signed by John Cuffe and Paul Cuffe regarding taxation

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Pin for History Books membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

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Pair of white circular earrings and earring box from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Transcript of a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2012 owned by Jim Vance

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US Army green service uniform necktie worn by General Colin L. Powell

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Newspaper clipping of the Club Ebony Gals

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Black bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Brick

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Tie with Peanuts comic strip worn by Eddie Robinson

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Two matching gold accessories from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Pin for Spirit of Alpha Kappa Alpha membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Photograph of a man and five female performers in costume

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Photograph of Elsie Higgins

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<I>Carlos Riley, Jr.'s Arrest</I>

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Advertisement card for Rev. J. H. Smith

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Evening coat from the collection of Lucy Cordice

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Print of Cab Calloway and his band performing on stage

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Photograph of Pete Cosey playing Mondo guitar in Japan

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Hood worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

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Banner from the 2008 Obama campaign headquarters in Columbia, Missouri

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Loveseat from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tintype of a woman standing with chair

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Photograph of Tom Durr standing next to a chair with a hat on it

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Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family

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Flier for “The International Heavyweight Rappers Showdown Part 1”

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign

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Photographic print of Westley Williams

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Kanga with portrait of Barack Obama and African continent

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Photograph of a woman in a white dress

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Brown crochet Turban-style hat

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Photographic print of Emmett Ashford, Virginia Ashford, and Bowie Kuhn

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Film still of a group of people gathered around a piano

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Photograph of two soldiers

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Photograph of a woman holding a closed parasol

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Theatre Program for As Thousands Cheer

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World Council of Churches guest badge for James Baldwin

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Black cape owned by James Brown

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Photo of Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone) at age 12

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Flyer promoting the second phase of the NCNW's Citizenship Education Project

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<I>Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand and Subordinate Temples, Daughters of IBPOE of the World</I>

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Flier for "Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom" meeting at Enon Baptist Church

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Photograph of members of Delta Co., 31st Combat Engineer Brigade, in Vietnam

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Advertisement card for Hon. W. H. Ward

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Waffle iron

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Shackles

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Spray bottle with case belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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Broadside advertising a game between the Athletics and Zulu Cannibal Giants

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Pass for the 25th anniversary Edmonton Folk Festival used by Ira Tucker

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White canvas Masonic apron owned by H.C. Anderson

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Poster reading "All night all day we will fight for freddie gray"

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New Jersey Association Championship medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform

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Flag of the First Republic of Haiti

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Black silk taffeta blouse with back drawstring

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Pendant for the centennial celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

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Bar chair with red cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

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Poster reading "Race is not a crime" used at Baltimore protests

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Blue draped turban

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World War I enlisted soldier's tunic and cigarette holder

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Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw

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Pinback button for Kwanzaa

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Advertisement card for Rev. Mrs. V.R. Robinson

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Pinback button for the New York Urban Coalition

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Pinback button from the 2008 Obama campaign reading "O-baaa-ma"

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Earrings with large amber rhinestone from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball

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Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Photographic print of a person in a cemetery

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Cigarette holder owned by Cab Calloway

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Memorium ribbon for the G.U.O.O.F Lodge No. 4997

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Postcard for the Grand Opening of the Wellington E. Webb Center for Primary Care

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Pair of black gloves with embroidered decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Uniform pants owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

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Green and silver brooch worn by Ophelia DeVore

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Tie tack for Ain't Misbehavin' costume worn by André De Shields

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Broadside advertisement for a James Brown concert at the Nippon Budokan

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Archival process photo for "I, Destini Film"

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Photographic print of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Photographic print of an audience at a concert

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Photograph of a baby sitting in a chair

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Pinback button for the NAACP

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Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist

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Blank certificate of pastor's appointment for the A.M.E. Church

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Black leather pants donated by Soul Train dancer Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans

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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

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Pinback button for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign designed by Gail Anderson

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Flier for the exhibit "Grace Before Dying"

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Wood spoon

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Draw hoe

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Far Western Amateur Athletic Union Championship medal awarded to Eulace Peacock

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Denim hat with red and grey chevron trim

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Blue faux fur cap

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Circular pearl and rhinestone earrings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Blue cloche with detached brim

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<I>Evisu Ball, Harlem, NY, 2006</I>

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White t-shirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

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Tintype of young woman in striped dress

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Cobalt blue European glass trade beads

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Landscape photograph of Cumberland River

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Receipt spindle from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Photograph of a group of ushers for First AME's 100th Anniversary

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Photographic print of a woman in front of a building

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Photograph of Howlin' Wolf, Pete Cosey, and Gene Barge during recording session

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Cuff link from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

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Photographic postcard of a woman

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Wooden mallet

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<I>19118: Uncle Sam Provides for Comfort of His Soldiers. Colored Troops En Route to France Taking Train Rest at Railway Division Point</I>

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Tintype of a woman with society sash and badges

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Photograph of Laura Cathrell and an unidentified man

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Photograph of Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham depicted in blackface

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and The Reagans

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Black beret from Black Power Era

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Photographic print of an unidentified couple

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<I>They sang, they spoke, they celebrated and remembered King...</I>

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Program for boxing match between Tony Doyle and Joe Frazier

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Kourt King croquet game set manual from Rock Rest Tourist Home

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Printing plate of Tamara Hayes

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Wool quilt with zig zag diagonal stripes

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<I>Cooking His Breakfast; Augusta, Ga</I>

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Photograph of Florence Stephens Bryant and James Bryant with a bride and groom

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Metal hatpin with rhinestones and silver beads from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Broadside announcing the sale of a man, Dick, and a girl, Lydia

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Lapel pin for the Jesse Jackson 1984 presidential election

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Red wool knit hat with hat pin

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Circular green and gold striped hatbox from Mae's Millinery Shop