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Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #8

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2016.95.11.1a: 8mm film. This home movie begins with a title card that reads “Ansco”. The opening footage is of shriners’ participating in a parade. Multiple camera angles cover the parade at various points throughout the route. Along the route, various store signs can be seen in the background. Some of the signs that can be seen are “Morris Market”, “Standard” (drugs, cosmetics, liquor), and “Bra

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Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #9

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2016.95.12.1a: 16mm film. This home movie consists of various shots of boats cruising on the water. The entire film is shot from a moving boat. There are some interior shots of a women steering the boat, and others relaxing on the deck of the boat.

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MeQuamya Chair

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The MeQuamya Chair designed by Jomo Tariku. The three-legged chair is constructed from American walnut wood with a natural finish. The chair has a T-shaped backrest designed to resemble the prayer and processional staff used by the Ethiopian Coptic Church. It also has a reuleaux triangular shaped seat constructed from three pieces of wood bonded together to create a triangular, wood grain pattern.

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Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro

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A gray-colored booklet with black san-serif typeface in all capitals that read: [MEDICAL CARE / AND THE PLIGHT / OF THE NEGRO]. The text is surrounded by a shadow box border. Centered beneath the title text reads: [By W. Montague Cobb, M.D., Ph.D.]. The publisher information is centered at the bottom of the cover. The booklet contains 33 pages.

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Melrose Plantation Cookbook

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A copy of the Melrose Plantation Cookbook by Clementine Hunter and Francois Mignon. The book is paperback and bound with a plastic binding comb on the left spine. The front and back cover are identical, with a faded photograph of the Melrose Plantation house with wrap-around veranda, gabled roof, and garden taking up the top half of the cover. The bottom half faded yellow field with the title prin

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Mem'ries of You Mammy / If You Don't Want Me Blues

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This is a 78 rpm single Mem'ries of You Mammy backed with If You Don't Want Me Blues recorded by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds. The black shellac disc has a red circular central label with large gold cursive text at the top margin that reads “OKEH.” On the proper right side is small gold text that reads “Popular Blues /(Vocal).” The bottom half of the label has gold text that reads “MEM’RIES OF

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Member of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church after being baptized in Skull Creek, Hilton Head Island, SC

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A black and white digital image of a member of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church after being baptized. The image depicts two men and a child wearing white garments and standing in Skull Creek on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The two men are holding white towels. The man at the center of the photograph has a white hat on his head. The child is walking towards the right side of the photogr

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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

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A second edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans published by Light & Horton in Boston, Massachusetts. Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, depicts her in profile facing proper right seated at a desk holding a quill to paper in her right hand. Her left hand is raised to her face in

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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

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A first edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans published by George W. Light in Boston, Massachusetts. Bookplate of Michael Zinman. Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, depicts her in profile facing proper right seated at a desk holding a quill to paper in her right hand. Her left h

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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave

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A third edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave published by Isaac Knapp in Boston, Massachusetts. Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, depicts her in profile facing proper right seated at a desk holding a quill to paper in her right hand. Her left hand is raised to her face in thought. Attached inte

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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint: Born a Slave in St. Domingo

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An 124-page hard bound book entitled Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in St. Domingo by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee. The cover is dark green with a blind-stamped geometrical design on the cover. There are floral motifs on the top and bottom edges of the design and along the outer borders. The spine has gilt lettering and graphics. There are whimsical designs with long curves and flowers alon

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Men with plastic at tent - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. – 1968

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This image depicts four men building an A-frame tent in Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. Two of the men, both wearing hats and jackets, stand on the tent's slanting wooden sides, one man on each side. They hold the large sheet of plastic to the top pf the wood frame while two men on the ground hold the sheet flat against the wall. One man on the ground, wearing a yellow shirt a

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<I>Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #8</I>

<I>Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #9</I>

<I>MeQuamya Chair</I>

<I>Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro</I>

<I>Melrose Plantation Cookbook</I>

<I>Mem'ries of You Mammy / If You Don't Want Me Blues</I>

<I>Member of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church after being baptized in Skull Creek, Hilton Head Island, SC</I>

<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans</I>

<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans</I>

<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave</I>

<I>Memoir of Pierre Toussaint: Born a Slave in St. Domingo</I>

<I>Men with plastic at tent - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. – 1968</I>