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1990s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black plastic point-and-shoot camera. "EZ 35" printed on the upper right corner of the front and the bottom right corner of the top. "35mm Focus Free Color Corrected Lens" is written around the lens on the front.
July 1946
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Association of Colored Women. The photograph features seated on the main floor, a stage, and a balcony. At the center of the photograph, on stage, is a woman standing at…
2018; gold fingernails added 2022
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a portrait of African American teenager George Stinney, Jr., the youngest person to be executed in a U.S. prison. In 1944, 14-year-old Stinney was charged, tried, convicted, and executed for a murder he did not commit, all within 80 days. Stinney’s…
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Adolpho A. Birch Jr. (September 22, 1932 – August 25, 2011) was an American lawyer and judge who was the first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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A. A. Rogers or A. A. Rodgers was a state legislator in Mississippi. He was a representative of Marshall County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875. He was a Republican, and African American. In 1873, he served in the…
1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA small booklet with the poem “A Black Woman Speaks” by Beulah Richardson, also known as Beah Richards. The booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper. The cover features a black and white image of two women, one Black, one White with a paper…
1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition, hardcover copy of A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou. The cloth bound hardcover book has an adhesive binding. The book’s dust jacket has dark, medium, and light blue vertical stripes interspersed with two yellow stripes and one…
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A C Wharton Jr. (born August 17, 1944) is an American educator, politician, and attorney who served as the 63rd mayor of Memphis, Tennessee and previously mayor of Shelby County. He was the second African American to serve as mayor of Shelby County.
1924
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handbill in black ink printed on off-white paper advertising a lecture by Marcus Garvey in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The top two-thirds of the handbill read, [A Call to all the People of / ASBURY PARK / TO HEAR / The Greatest Living Negro Leader and…
Loading image…1961–2024
Antonio Cornelius Baker (September 30, 1961 – November 8, 2024) was an American public health advocate and policy expert who worked in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and advocacy. He held leadership roles in organizations such as the National Association of…
ca. 1928
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGNewspaper clipping entitled, [A Decatur County Farmer Replies]. The introduction of the clipping refers to a satirical poem that was put into circulation by the Republican Party in reference to an upcoming Presidential election. The brief introduction…
August 5, 1966; printed 2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color photograph of a crowd with a boy at center waering an angry expression and a sleeveless black shirt trimmed in white. Behind him is a man with a mustache and a man wearing a yellow hard hat.
August 5, 1966; printed 2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color photograph of a protest sign in front of a Chicago police van. The handmade sign, held by a person out of the frame, reads "We will not / stand for your / inciting violence / Red King / Down with forced houseing" [sic]. Only the top of the head and…
1941
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn 18 mimeographed page segregated travel guide, stapled, with original printed blue wrappers produced by the United States Travel Bureau for African Americans traveling inside the United States. The cover reads [UNITED STATES TRAVEL BUREAU / NEGRO HOTELS…
October 16, 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black-and-white photograph depicts a section of the crowd at the Million Man March. In the foreground, a man, in profile to the viewer, gazes straight ahead. He wears a jacket and a baseball cap with a small sign on the side that reads "MILLION MAN /…
2006
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed, hardcover first edition of A Hand to Guide Me, written by Denzel Washington and inscribed to General Colin L. Powell. The book features a glossy paper jacket over its brown hardcover. The tan colored spine displays the book title, author, and…
1883–1961
Andrew Jackson Smitherman (December 1883 - June 1961) was an American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist. Smitherman began his journalism career in 1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he wrote for the Muskogee Cimiter before founding the Muskogee…
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (February 25, 1928 – December 14, 1998) was an American civil rights advocate, historian, presidential adviser, and federal court judge. From 1990 to 1991, he served as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for…
2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating a line from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts King in a jail cell. He is holding a pencil in his right hand and a letter in his left. He is wearing a blue…
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Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 – December 19, 1977) was a civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights and community groups led Texans…
December 6th, 1871
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA typed letter to Congress from Mississippi Secretary of State James D. Lynch. The letter is typed on discolored off-white paper with black ink. The text at the top reads [A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS / For the request of Lands to aid the construction of the…
1887–1976
A. Mercer Daniel (May 27, 1887 – February 17, 1976) was an American law librarian and the first African American member of American Association of Law Libraries. He worked as a librarian for the United States Department of War, and later went on to serve…
1940
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPamphlet consisting of black print on yellowed paper. The title "A Negro Looks at War" take up most of the front cover. At the bottom, a landscape with a lone tree.
1914–2001
Albert Prince Marshall (September 5, 1914 – March 9, 2001) was an American librarian and educator. He was the director of multiple academic libraries, including the libraries of Lincoln University and Eastern Michigan University. Marshall was an active…
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