This image depicts a woman during the construction of Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. She is wearing a yellow cloth wrapped around her head. She is shown from the chest upwards, wearing a light grey button shirt, with an object hanging from a cloth strap around her neck. Wooden frames for temporary shelters are visible in the background.
A black plastic cassette tape with white writing. Side 1: "PUBLIC ENEMY/ GIVE IT UP (MAIN VERSION) (4:44)" Side 2: "PUBLIC ENEMY/ BEDLAM 13:13 (LP VERSION) (4:13)." Also on the label is “Def Jam Recordings. BMI. 1994 Rush Associated Labels. Cassette brand: Dolby B NR HX PRO.”
This is a hardback copy of Go Up for Glory by Bill Russell. The book has a paper book jacket which is covered with a clear plastic book sleeve on its exterior. The front cover of the book is black with a foregrounded color portrait of Bill Russell wearing a suit and a red tie, resting his head against his proper left hand, in the bottom left corner. A black-and-white depiction of men playing baske
A second printing (July 1927) edition of a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson titled God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. The book features eight poems, each with an illustration by Aaron Douglass and title lettering by C.B. Falls. The hardcover book has a cream paper dust jacket, worn at the spine and lightly soiled. On the front of the jacket is a rectangular illustration by Douglas
A report titled Golden Jubilee and 50th Anniversary Celebration of the National Baptist Publishing Board printed in black ink on pink colored paper. The title of the report is “Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention of America for the Fiscal Year Ending July 31, 1930.” Typed below the title is “Founded by the late/DR
Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine: The Saga of Harriet Tubman, "The Moses of Her People," Volume 2. The front cover of the book features a large detailed illustration of Harriet Tubman. Tubman is portrayed with her body facing the viewer but with her head turned, looking over her proper right shoulder at a large fire in the distance. Trees and tall grass surround her and two people are fo
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.
This sheet music is for the song "Good Night Angeline" composed by James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake. It was published by M. Witmark & Sons. The cover has blue and black printed text accompanied by illustrations in blue of a snare drum and a flugelhorn surrounding a black-and-white portrait of Europe. The portrait is below a black-and-white photograph of the 369th Infantry Regiment
A 45 rpm record album titled “Gospel Singer: Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Sally Jenkins Singers" recorded live at the Church of God in Christ Church in Harlem. The front cover of the record sleeve (2014.98.1b) features a black and white portrait of Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing into a microphone. She is pictured from the chest up and is looking up and away. The image is on a black and orange bac