A hardcover edition of As I Saw It, Not CommUnism But CommOnism: a Prophetic Appraisal of the Status Quo, a Message for our Times and for all Times, for America and for all Nations, by Thomas Elliott Huntley. It is a cloth-bound book with five groups of sewn bindings and adhesive. The book has a black paper dust jacket with white text and graphics. The title of the book, [AS / I SAW IT / Not CommU
Sheet music for the song "As Long as I Live" from the production of the 24th Edition of the Cotton Club Parade. The cover is orange with a large graphic of a woman's head. Her features are simplified with only her eyes, lips, and PL ear are seen. Her face is white, lips red, and hair black. The woman is found in the upper right quadrant. In her mouth is a cigarette, pointed toward the center of th
Quilt in mostly red and purple made for Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry by the African American Quilt Circle in 2003. It is comprised of several blocks both pieced and appliqued, with strips sewn in some places to create evenness in the block sizes. The fabrics are mostly red and purple tones in cotton, synthetic, and blended fabrics. The pieced blocks include a pinwheel, star variations, a sixteen-patch, fo
This black and white photograph shows from proper right to left an unidentified man, John Conyers, Ralph David Abernathy, Rosa Parks and Cleveland Robinson. They are seated inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King Jr.'s first birthday commemoration in 1969. There is a choir standing behind the seated figures. The back of the photograph has a manufacturer's mark, photographer's sta
An impressionist oil painting titled, At "Smith's Palace," Narragansett Bay, by Edward M. Bannister. The painting depicts a pastoral landscape that features a copse of tall, dark, leafy trees just left of center. Directly in front of the trees is a small pond. In the background, on the right, is a white house with a red chimney, a small, detached building with a red roof, both sitting on a yellow
This image depicts several women outside a tent set up along the street. In the foreground is a young woman standing with her back to the camera. She wears a white head wrap, long sleeve white blouse, and light colored vest and skirt. She has glasses and a wedding ring. With her right hand she grasps a tent pole, with her left a tent support rope. She gazes to her right. Immediately in front of he
Pamphlet consisting of black print on off-white paper. At top, a small bust-length image of a man. At center, an edited photograph depicting protesters massed against a police line.
This black and white photograph was taken after the first commemorative event on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in 1969. The photograph was taken at Jackson Street Bridge. The tallest building at proper right behind a grouping of shorter buildings is the First National Bank of Atlanta. The tall building with the dark finish that rises above the rest of the structures in the center of the image