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Emmett W. Bassett, Ph. D. and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett Oral History Interview

The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.38.1a, 2011.174.38.1b, 2011.174.38.1c, 2011.174.38.1d, 2011.174.38.1e, 2011.174.38.1f, 2011.174.38.1g, 2011.174.38.1h, 2011.174.38.1i, and 2011.174.38.1j.

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Encuentro de 3 Mundos

The second scene is set against a green background with three large trees across the center and a blue riverbank at the bottom of the tapestry. Each tree is composed of different fabrics for the canopies, from left to right: green foliage with white berries, red fruit, and yellow flowers. In the mid-ground, a white man with brown hair and a whip, directs a Black enslaved woman, her hands shackled

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Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment

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An edition of a speech by Congressman Horace Maynard of Tennessee printed in black ink on off-white wove paper in a center bound booklet. The cover page reads [Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment. / SPEECH / OF / HON. HORACE MAYNARD, / OF TENNESEE / DELIVERED / IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, / MARCH 30, 1871.]. In smaller print at the bottom center is [WASHINGTON: / F. & J. RIVES & GEO. A. BAILE

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Enroute

“I find myself trying to deal with the history and the pains but also wanting to deal with the beauty. . . . I often work with layers, often with seven layers, because I never know when to finish, but a lot of the layers have to deal with some of the complexities with who we are, as well.” — Radcliffe Bailey

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Environment No. 5

A three-tone mezzotint of female faces by Eldzier Cortor. Depicted in two parts, framed by a silver color border, from left to right: Two grayscale women, one in profile with a bright earring, the other looking forward with a bright head wrap, one of her eyes visible, a brightly shaded nut or fruit at her clavicle, are framed within the arch of a wood-like grayscale border. On the right of the pri

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Envy

This collage depicts an African American male figure beneath a tree with his mouth open and his arms crossed over his chest. The man faces an abstracted monumental human-like figure. This abstract figure appears a white shape with two truncated arms and an abstracted head, above swaths of black and brown atop a square base in blocks and stripes of blue, orange and yellow. The two figures appear on

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Episcopalian Clergy, Selma to Montgomery March

A black-and-white digital image of clergy holding four signs. Only the men's heads can be seen. The signs read, from left to right, [GOD / IS / COLOR / BLIND], [FATHER / FORGIVE], [I AM THE ViNE / YOU THE BrANCHEeS], and [EPISC [rest in unseen] / DIOCES [rest in unseen] / CLER [rest in unseen] / AND / LAIT [rest in unseen]]. St. Jude Catholic Church can be seen in the background.

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Erchie

This is the Erchie earrings, a pair of dangle earrings designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. Each earring is made of one upper dangle made of copper wire and one lower dangle made of brass wire. The upper dangle copper wire is bent at the center into a circle and the long ends are flattened and laid parallel and flattened. The screw backing is attached to the copper ends. The center of the br

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Ernest Parks wears his uniform of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, James Island, SC

A black and white digital image of Ernest Parks wearing a 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry uniform and holding a rifle. He is sitting on a bench in front of a wood sided building.

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Ernesto Vigil Oral History Interview

An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.11.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews.

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Esquire, Volume LXIX, No. 4

One (1) copy of the April 1968 issue of Esquire magazine featuring Muhammad Ali on the cover. The cover is fully white, with the Esquire masthead at the top in black and a color photograph of Ali at center, standing shirtless in white boxing shorts and shoes. He has been shot with six arrows. Five pierce his chest while the sixth arrow punctures the upper thigh of his proper right leg, each creati

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Esther M.A. Terry, Ph. D. Oral History Interview

The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.28.1a, 2011.174.28.1b, 2011.174.28.1c, 2011.174.28.1d, 2011.174.28.1e, 2011.174.28.1f, 2011.174.28.1g, 2011.174.28.1h, 2011.174.28.1i, 2011.174.28.1j.

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<I>Emmett W. Bassett, Ph. D. and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett Oral History Interview</I>

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<I>Environment No. 5</I>

<I>Envy</I>

<I>Episcopalian Clergy, Selma to Montgomery March</I>

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<I>Ernest Parks wears his uniform of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, James Island, SC</I>

<I>Ernesto Vigil Oral History Interview</I>

<I>Esquire, Volume LXIX, No. 4</I>

<I>Esther M.A. Terry, Ph. D. Oral History Interview</I>