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Nyala Chair

The Nyala Chair designed by Jomo Tariku. The three-legged chair is constructed from American ash wood with an ebony finish. The chair has handcarved, T-shaped back and arms designed to resemble the horns of the nyala antelope. It also has a reuleaux triangular shaped seat constructed from three pieces of wood that have been bonded together to create a triangular, wood grain pattern. The three chai

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O, The Oprah Magazine, Volume 12, Number 1

A copy of the January 2011, Volume 12, Number 1 issue of "O, The Oprah Magazine." The magazine cover features a full-page photograph of Oprah Winfrey in a red dress. Winfrey is seated in a white director's chair. On the back of the back rest are multi-colored letters and the text [OWN / OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK]. Winfrey is seated with her proper left elbow resting on the back rest and her proper lef

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Oak Bluffs Holiday mecca for East Coast blacks

An image of a newspaper clipping of an article about racial integration on Martha's Vineyard, titled "Oak Bluffs Holiday mecca for East Coast blacks." The article is printed in black ink on newsprint with handwritten inscriptions along the bottom that read [The Boston Globe July 5, 1983]. The article interviews inhabitants and visitors to Oak Bluffs, stating "Oak Bluffs has been a favorite Fourth

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Obama 08

One pair of hand-painted sneakers (.1ab) featuring Barack Obama, with shoe box (.2). The shoes are a pair of white basketball sneakers, Nike Air Force 1s, painted over with an image of Obama's face in tones of grey against a blue background on the side panel; each sneaker features Obama in a different pose with the title [Obama 08] to the bottom left.The logo from the Obama campaign is painted in

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October 1942-June 1945 with the 92nd Infantry Division, Volume 92, Part 4

Paperback pamphlet with an illustrated cover of a landscape. The landscape includes mountains in the upper third of the image. Behind the mountains is a blue sky with white clouds. In mid-ground of the image is a bombed out building obscured by a white vertical, rectangular road sign that includes the title of the publication. The rectangle is in the middle of the cover left of center. The rectang

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Ode to My Parents: My Life and My Faith ??? ???

A signed hardcover edition of Ode to My Parents(??? ???) - My Life and My Faith, written by former minister of finance of South Korea, YongMan Rhee, and inscribed to General Colin L. Powell. The book features a hardback cover in light brown with embossing of the title, author, and publisher, horizontally along the spine. On the front hardcover between the title and the author’s name is an embossed

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Of Black America: Black History; Lost, Stolen, or Strayed

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.

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Of Black America: The Black Soldier

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Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy

A small booklet (2011.155.5a) produced by West Point listing the officers and cadets at the United States Military Academy in 1881. The booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper with saddle-stitched binding and 39 numbered pages. The listing of cadets begins on page 10, with African American cadet Johnson Chesnut Whittaker found on page 13 with a footnote that reads in part, "Recommended

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Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy

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The booklet begins with a listing of the "Board of Visitors," followed by officers and the academic staff. Next is a listing of cadets by class according to year of study and "arranged in Order of Merit in their Respective Classes." John Alexander is found at number 32 in the First Class on page 10 and Charles Young is listed at number 50 in the Third Class on page 15. The next section is a listin

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Old Church

A black-and-white linocut, Old Church, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop, New York City, 1996. The print depicts a side view of an old wooden church with bell tower. The church sags at the roof and on its raised foundation, and is missing several pieces of its wooden siding. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are

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Old Jim Crow Has Got to Go!

9 pp

Pamphlet consisting of black and white text on yellowed paper and black margins. Illustrated on the cover a fist has punched through a barrier with labels including "personage," "lynching," "segregation," and "poll taxes."

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