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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Isabella Salcedo at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Isabella Salcedo, at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which Guy-Sheftall…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall with NMAAHC scholar activists

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activists, Isabella Salcedo and Phoebe Linnell, at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.6
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of boy holding a protest sign during the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a boy taken on the day of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The boy is depicted center, facing the viewer. He is holding a partially obscured sign over his proper right shoulder that reads…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.2
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Photograph of Carole Mumin and Ibrahim Mumin at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin with her husband, fellow activist Ibrahim Mumin, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The couple sit side-by-side. Mumin, on the left, wears a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.2
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Photograph of Carole Mumin at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mumin wears a purple, beige, and blue illusion-like garment with a matching headscarf. Her hands are also clasped…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.3
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Photograph of Carole Mumin at NMAAHC

April 3, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The image captures Mumin sitting. She wears a black-and-red embossed jacket with paisley-like patterns and a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.16.5
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Photograph of Carole Mumin, Ibrahim Mumin, and Isabella Salcedo at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin with her husband, fellow activist Ibrahim Mumin, and National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Isabella Salcedo, at NMAAHC. Salcedo interviewed Carole Mumin…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.5
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Photograph of Charles Black and his daughters at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black and his two daughters, Julie Fusel and Yvette Black Moore, at Clark Atlanta University. The image captures Black sitting and the two women flanking him from behind, each other their outer hands clasping…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.3
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Photograph of Charles Black and Phoebe Linnell at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Phoebe Linnell at Clark Atlanta University. Linnell interviewed Black for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.4
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Photograph of Charles Black at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black at Clark Atlanta University. The image captures Black sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling. He wears a yellow quarter-zip yellow with dark brown pants. On the proper left collar flap,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.5
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Photograph of Charles E. Cobb and Kiersten Simon at Cobb’s home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb and Louisiana State University student Kiersten Simon at Cobb’s home in Jacksonville, Florida. Simon interviewed Cobb for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures both being…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.3
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Photograph of Charles E. Cobb at his home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb at his home in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Cobb sitting in a horseshoe-shaped chair. Cobb has his proper right leg crossed over his proper left leg. His proper left hand rests on his proper right…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.2
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Photograph of Charles E. Cobb at his home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb at his home in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Cobb sitting in a horseshoe-shaped chair. Cobb wears a bronze-and-black, abstract patterned shirt and glasses. His head is slightly tilted to his proper…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team

ca. 1907

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A black and white team photograph of baseball players from Chase County High School in Kansas. There are three (3) rows of boys. The two (2) boys in the front row center are sitting cross-legged and the two (2) boys on the sides are lying on their sides,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.94.1
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Photograph of citizenship education class at San Francisco NCNW headquarters

1956

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A black-and-white photograph depicting a class on citizenship education given jointly by the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women and the League of Women Voters at the NCNW headquarters at 1914 Fillmore St. Several women and one man…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.41
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera

Photograph of Colonel James E. Randall with his returned flight helmet

2013-2019

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A color photograph of Colonel Randall (left), Gary “Paco” Gregg (center), and Dominique Eluere (right) standing next to Colonel Randall’s flight helmet at Randall’s home. The helmet (2023.70.1a) is at the center of the photograph in a wooden case. Service…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.70.21
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Photograph of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton

July 21, 2023

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A digital image of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Rayburn House Office Building. The image captures Congresswoman Norton from the chest up. She wears a blue and brown pattered jacket over a brown shirt. On the proper left side of the jacket,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.5.2
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Photograph of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton

July 21, 2023

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A digital image of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Rayburn House Office Building. The image captures Congresswoman Norton from the waist up, sitting in a horseshow-shaped chair. She wears a blue and brown pattered jacket over a brown shirt. On…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.5.5
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Photograph of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Elyse Martin-Smith

July 21, 2023

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A digital image of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Harvard University student Elyse Martin-Smith at the Rayburn House Office Building. Martin-Smith interviewed Congresswoman Norton for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.5.3
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Photograph of Coretta Scott King at the memorial march for MLK in Memphis, TN

April 8, 1968

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This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of Coretta Scott King walking arm and arm with her children and several civil rights leaders at the memorial march for Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. King is wearing a black coat and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.42.2
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Photograph of Daphne Muse and Natalie Riddick

November 14, 2023

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A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Natalie Riddick, at Muse’s home in Brentwood, California. Riddick was part of the Social Justice Conversations Oral History…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.6
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