National Museum of African American History and Culture

A handmade protest sign by Justin McBrien used during the Charlottesville, Virginia counter-protest to the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017. The sign is constructed from purple and blue poster board with the slogans "Destroy White Supremacy" on the front, and "Black Lives Matter" on the back. The front of the sign is blue and features a dark blue and black marker drawing of a Ku Klux Klan

A handmade protest sign by Gillet Rosenblith used during the Charlottesville, Virginia counter-protest to the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017. The sign is constructed from blue poster board with the slogans "Nazis - Go Home!!" on the front, and "Fuck White Supremacy" on the back. The front of the sign features large, handwritten, black marker text that reads [Nazis-GO / HOME!!]. Four (4)

A signed color poster featuring a color headshot portrait of Stacey Abrams and reading "Georgia Thrives With Abrams" from the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign. The poster has a lilac background outlined in dark purple. Large bold white text at the top reading [GEORGIA / THRIVES] and at the bottom [WITH / ABRAMS]. Along the bottom edge in lilac is [Stacey Abrams, Sarah Riggs Amico, and Democrats

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an illustration of an abstract figure painting two red flowers. The poster has a blue background that fades to black towards the top margin. There is a red flower painted in each upper corner of the poster. At the bottom center of the pos

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an illustration of a red, white, and blue pencil. The poster has a black background with white text. Across the top margin is white text that reads “IN REAFFIRMING THE GREATNESS OF OUR NATION, / WE / UNDERSTAND / THAT / GREATNESS / IS NEV

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama on the bottom half and an abstract lion’s face on the upper half. The lion’s face consists of a two-tone yellow circle with geometric shapes for a nose, large black circle for a mouth and small red circles for eyes. Its whiskers are two sets

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract illustration of a flying bird. The poster has a dark blue background with three round spots of lighter blue along the margins. These lighter areas have blurry edges that fade into dark blue. At the top right corner is an abstr

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract flower with eyes for leaves. The poster has a black background. In the upper left quadrant is white text that reads “IN / REAFFIRMING / THE / GREATNESS / OF OUR / NATION, / WE / UNDERSTAND / THAT / GREATNESS / IS NEVER A / GIV

This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract flower with eyes for leaves. The poster has a black background. In the upper left quadrant is white text that reads “IN / REAFFIRMING / THE / GREATNESS / OF OUR / NATION, / WE / UNDERSTAND / THAT / GREATNESS / IS NEVER A / GIV

This is a black and white poster of Etta Moten Barnett. She is depicted in profile, seated, turning her head over her proper left shoulder to gaze at the viewer. She wears a light-colored suit jacket and matching bottom. Her left arm rests on her left knee, on top of a pair of black gloves draped across her thigh. She wears a light-colored hat with a shallow crown and a wide brim with dark bows on

Poster advertising the play "Lovers of Bourbon" featuring Ira Aldridge as the character Three Finger'd Jack. The poster is narrow and printed on thin paper. The text is black and in a variety of sizes and fonts. The poster lists other actors in the play, a synopsis, the theater location and prices of admission. The top third of the poster reads “LAST NIGHT / OF PERFORMING UNTIL THE FAIR. / THEATRE

A three sheet film poster for The Bull-Dogger. The poster has a black background with white border. At teh top in large white text is [THE NORMAN FILM MFG. CO. / PRESENTS / BILL PICKETT / World's Colored Champion / 'THE BULL-DOGGER']. Beneath this is a large color illustration of actor Steve Reynolds dressed in a cowboy hat, orange neckerchief, brown vest, purple shirt, and brown pants. He holds a