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Bob Dylan Performs

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Bob Dylan playing to a crowd of participants in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. A crowd of participants is sitting in rows of folding chairs facing a podium on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. Bob Dylan stands at the podium, playing a guitar. To the left and the right of the podium are sm

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Bob Johnson, President and founder Black Entertainment Television, in his Georgetown office in the early days of B.E.T evolution

A black-and-white photograph of Robert L. Johnson sitting behind a desk. He is adjusting a television knob with his right hand. He is looking directly at the camera. The photograph is stamped and inscribed on the back.

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Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson

A black-and-white photograph of Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson, by Platon. The three subjects are depicted from the knees up, facing the viewer. The photograph’s perspective is from an angle that looks up at the three from about waist level. Nash stands at the center with Moses and Lawson on either side of her. Her arms are crossed over her waist, and she is holding hands with bo

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Bob and His Fiddle

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A stereograph titled "Bob and His Fiddle" printed and photographed by O. Pierre Havens of Savannah, Georgia. The albumen prints depict a boy holding a homemade fiddle while seated outside a small log dwelling. He wears a white shirt, dark vest, dark pants, and no shoes. His hat is lying on the ground by his left foot. He looks down at the fiddle held in his left hand and propped on his left should

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Bobby "Blue" Bland, 1989

H x W (Matted): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

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Bobby McFerrin, 1980

A black-and-white photograph of Bobby McFerrin performing at a concert in Miami, FL. He is wearing a patterned shirt and glasses. His arms are above his head and are blurred in motion. His head is tilted back with his eyes closed, and he is holding a microphone in his right hand.

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Bobby McFerrin

A black-and-white photograph of Bobby McFerrin, by Platon. McFerrin is depicted seated with his proper right ankle crossed over his proper left leg. His proper left elbow is propped on the side of his proper right calf with his hand wrapped around the bicep of his proper right arm. His proper right arm is draped across his lap. He is smiling and looking up and to the left into the distance. His ch

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Bobby Seale Campaigns for Mayor of Oakland and Elaine Brown Campaigns for City Council, Oakland, California, 1972

A black-and-white photograph of Bobby Seale campaigning for Mayor of Oakland. Seale, at the proper right of the photograph, is wearing an overcoat, button-down shirt and tie, and he is gesturing with both hands. Seale is accompanied by Elaine Brown, who stands at the center of the photograph, wearing a fur coat belted with a leather belt. Brown is looking at Seale while shaking hands with a man at

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Bobby Seale Speaks in the Oakland Auditorium During the Black Community Survival Conference, Oakland, California, March 30, 1972

A black-and-white photograph of Bobby Seale speaking at the Black Community Survival Conference held in the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California. Seale is standing at the center of the photograph, on a stage in front of fully closed stage curtains. He is speaking into a microphone that is in the center of three (3) microphone stands set up on the stage. He is wearing an overcoat, and he is ge

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Bobby Simmons, Selma to Montgomery March

A black-and-white digital image of Bobby Simmons standing in front of an American flag. The portrait features only the bust of Simmons, wearing a stripped collared t-shirt and jean overalls. Simmons has white lotion covering his face with the word [VOTE] scratched on his forehead. Behind the flag on Simmons’s left, a man stands with dark sunglasses.

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Body and Soul

The film tells the story of an escaped prisoner on the run (played by Paul Robeson) who returns to his hometown, Tatesville, an African American town in the state of Georgia. Upon his return, the escapee assumes the identity of a clergyman, Reverend Isiah T. Jenkins, but continues attending the local juke joint surreptitiously, gambling and drinking with some frequency. On one occasion he happens

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Boiling crab

This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of men boiling crabs. The man closest to the camera is wearing a short-sleeve dress shirt and baseball cap. The man on the right is wearing a stripped dress shirt, light pants and a baseball cap. He is leaning down over the pot of crabs and is holding a stick. A young man is standing between the two men and is wearing a t-shirt, shorts and

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<I>Bob Dylan Performs</I>

<I>Bob Johnson, President and founder Black Entertainment Television, in his Georgetown office in the early days of B.E.T evolution</I>

<I>Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson</I>

<I>Bob and His Fiddle</I>

<I>Bobby "Blue" Bland, 1989</I>

<I>Bobby McFerrin, 1980</I>

<I>Bobby McFerrin</I>

<I>Bobby Seale Campaigns for Mayor of Oakland and Elaine Brown Campaigns for City Council, Oakland, California, 1972</I>

<I>Bobby Seale Speaks in the Oakland Auditorium During the Black Community Survival Conference, Oakland, California, March 30, 1972</I>

<I>Bobby Simmons, Selma to Montgomery March</I>

<I>Body and Soul</I>

<I>Boiling crab</I>