Outdoor Wedding Portrait of Bride Deloris Braxton and Groom Robert T. Shipp. They are standing outside Braxton’s maternal grandparent’s house in Winterville, Mississippi.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.13.38.A
Outdoor Wedding Portrait of Bride Deloris Braxton and Groom Robert T. Shipp with Family. They are standing outside Braxton’s maternal grandparent’s house in Winterville, Mississippi.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.13.38.B
This outfit was worn by Carlotta Walls LaNier during the "Little Rock Crisis" of 1957 at Little Rock Central High School. The outfit consists of a skirt and blouse in a matching alphabetical print of blue, teal, and white on a black background. The blouse…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.117.1ab
This black-and-white photograph depicts the entrance to a Memphis zoo. At front and center is a sign reading "NO WHITE PEOPLE ALLOWED IN ZOO TODAY." Behind it, several African Americans can be seen in the zoo.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.16.2
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