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Cleaning Streets - Tulsa, OK

1 pp

A sepia toned digital image of a man wearing white coveralls, gloves and a trilby hat sweeping the street. Another man wearing a white shirt and holding a briefcase is on the left side of the picture. Additional people are walking in the background. Trashcans and a building with a sign that says “King’s” is also in the background. Written beneath the image is 2/6/4/71 CLEANING STREETS – TULSA, OK.

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Cleveland Sellers, Ed. D. Oral History Interview

1 pp

The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.81.1a, 2011.174.81.1b, 2011.174.81.1c, 2011.174.81.1d, and 2011.174.81.1e.

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Clifford Browner Oral History Interview

1 pp

The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.61.1a and 2011.174.61.1b.

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Clouds and Railroad Tracks

1 pp

A digital image of flooding in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the foreground is calm floodwater reflecting a partly cloudy sky. Behind the reflection is a railroad. In the background is more flooding with houses and telephone poles.

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Club Harlem Revue of 1975

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H x W: 9 x 4 in. (22.9 x 10.2 cm)

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Clyde Frazier

1 pp

An image of Clyde Frazier sitting at a table under an umbrella. A bag with his name on it sits atop the table. Frazier is featured looking away from the camera and is wearing a long sleeved shirt. There are palms in the background of the image.

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Coded Language

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A long piece of scrolled white paper containing a handwritten copy of Saul Williams' poem "Coded Language." The top half of the poem is written in both black and brown ink; the lower half just uses black ink. The handwriting is in all capital letters and features a distinctive 'E' made with just three parallel horizontal lines and no vertical line joining them. The poem begins, [Whereas, breakbeat

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Color in Dress for Dark Skinned Peoples

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A first edition copy of Color in Dress for Dark Skinned Peoples by Ella Mae Washington. This is a hardback bound book with a brown cover. Embossed on the front cover along the left hand margin is a lighthouse set upon a rocky base. Along the right hand side is the title that reads "COLOR IN DRESS/ for / DARK SKINNED PEOPLES." At the bottom of right hand side is the author's name "Ella Mae Washingt

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Combined Continuity on Cotton Comes to Harlem

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This folio continuity script for "Cotton Comes to Harlem" is from the 1970 film based on the Chester Himes' novel of the same name. The pages are mimeographed leaves bound in a black pressboard binder with a metal prong clasp. The front cover has a central white rectangular label with rounded edges that reads [COTTON COMES TO HARLEM / United Artists - 1970 / A.Perl, O.Davis/O.Davis]. There is an a

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Coming Home

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A black-and-white linocut, Coming Home, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop, New York City, 1996. The depicts a row of rickety wooden shack homes set under a cloud-filled sky. A female figure, wearing a dress, hat, and high-heeled shoes, climbs the bowed steps of the leftmost home. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. Ther

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Commemorative Headdress of Her Journey Beyond Heaven

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A sculpture of a headdress titled, "Commemorative Headdress of Her Journey Beyond Heaven," created by Kenya (Robinson). The headdress is primarily composed of varying types of hair combs and blue nylon threads. The main body of the headdress is roughly ovoid shape, with black hair combs and black hair picks fanning up and back with the teeth pointing outwards. The black combs come to a point at th

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Commercial

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A pamphlet titled Commercial. The pamphlet is one of eight found in a portfolio titled Soul City. The pamphlet is printed using brown and black ink. It describes how the shopping district of the community will be designed and planned and what potential residents can expect from in the commercial district of the town. It features maps of the shopping district of the planned community and images of

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<I>Club Harlem Revue of 1975</I>

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