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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

August 27, 1983; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of the Rev. Jesse Jackson during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. Jackson is depicted in bust pose facing the viewer. He is looking slightly off towards the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.2.19
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

August 27, 1983; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of the Rev. Jesse Jackson with participants during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. Jackson is depicted from the waist up facing the viewer. He is standing with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.2.20
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rev. Jesse Jackson during the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

August 27, 1983; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of the Rev. Jesse Jackson standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. Jackson is depicted from the shoulders up facing the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.2.22
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rev. Ralph Abernathy assisting in the construction of a shelter

1968; printed October 6, 2017

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An inkjet print depicting a black-and-white image of Reverend Ralph Abernathy assisting in the construction of a Poor People’s Campaign shelter in 1968. Abernathy is depicted in the center of the image, wearing jean jacket, dark parts, and a white waist…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.113.1
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Photograph of Reverend Abernathy and others march in the Campaign against hunger

1968; printed October 6, 2017

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A black-and-white photograph of Reverend Ralph Abernathy participating in the Poor People’s Campaign’s march against hunger in Washington, D.C. Abernathy is centrally depicted in the foreground from the chest up. He is wearing a light toned, short sleeve,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.113.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rodney Hurst and James Gray III at Hurst's son’s house

August 3, 2023

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A digital image of activist and author Rodney Hurst with Temple University student James Gray III at Hurst’s son’s house in Jacksonville, Florida. Gray interviewed Hurst for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures the two…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.7.4
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Photograph of Rodney Hurst at his son’s house

August 3, 2023

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A digital image of activist and author Rodney Hurst at his son’s house in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Hurst sitting in chair and smiling directly into the camera. He wears a black, long-sleeved shirt with a band collar and black framed…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.7.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rodney Hurst at his son’s house

August 3, 2023

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A digital image of activist and author Rodney Hurst at his son’s house in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Hurst sitting in chair and smiling directly into the camera. He wears a black, long-sleeved shirt with a band collar, black framed glasses,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.7.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Rodney Hurst at his son’s house

August 3, 2023

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A digital image of activist and author Rodney Hurst at his son’s house in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Hurst sitting in a chair and smiles directly into the camera. He wears a black, long-sleeved shirt with a band collar and black framed…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.7.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Ruby Bates delivering a petition in favor of the Scottsboro Boys

May 1933

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This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of Ruby Bates and a small group of marchers on their way to the White House to deliver a petition in favor of the Scottsboro Boys. Bates is standing in the middle of Three women in step with each…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.39.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Ruth March decorating the car at the head of a NCNW motorcade

September 8, 1956

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A black-and-white photograph of Ruth N. March, former president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, decorating a1956 Cadillac Sixty Special, the lead car in a voter registration motorcade that took place in San Francisco on…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.46
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Photograph of Samuel Leibowitz with four released "Scottsboro Boys"

July 26, 1937

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An early copy print black-and-white photograph of four released “Scottsboro Boys” and their attorney, Samuel Leibowitz. This photograph was captured inside the wood-paneled office of New York City attorney Samuel Leibowitz. Seated on a wooden bench seat at…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.9.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of San Francisco Sun-Reporter Political Forum participants

October 14, 1956

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A black-and-white photograph of the participants in the San Francisco Sun-Reporter's Political Forum held on October 14, 1956. Seated at center is Frances Albrier. A typewritten caption below the photograph lists those photographed. The photograph is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.42
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family

ca. 1906

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A black and white, formal family portrait photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and his family in a black, paper mat. Senator Falkener is seated on the left with his wife, Margaret Mitchell Falkener, seated on the right. From left to right, three of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.94.16
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family

ca. 1906

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A large, black and white, formal family portrait photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and his family. Senator Falkener is seated on the left with his wife, Margaret Mitchell Falkener, seated on the right. From left to right, three of their sons,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.94.19
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of seven Junior NCNW members with voter information pamphlets

1956

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A black-and-white photograph of seven (7) members of the Junior Council of the National Council of Negro Women posing while discussing the relative pros and cons of issues and propositions on the 1956 California ballot. The caption below the photograph is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.33
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of seven of the Little Rock Nine meeting at the home of Daisy Bates

March 1958

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This black-and-white photograph depicts seven of the Little Rock Nine, from left to right, Melba Patillo, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Tomas, Elizabeth Eckford, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts and Gloria Ray, meeting at the home of Daisy Bates, a local…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.17.201
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Sherrif Sandlin after shooting Scottsboro boy Ozie Powell

January 25, 1936

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This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of the Sheriff J. Street Sandlin, who shot Ozie Powell, and Sheriff J.E. Pierce. Sandlin is standing on the left and is holding the knife that Powell used to stab Deputy Edgar Blalock. His…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.39.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home

1940-1959

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A black-and-white photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. Five women and one man are seated in chairs arranged in a semi-circle. The two women on the far-left side of the image are sitting in front of an open,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.54.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home

1940-1959

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A black-and-white photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. Five women and one man are arranged in a semi-circle. The two women on the far-left side of the image are sitting in front of an open, striped, lawn umbrella…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.54.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of soldiers behind a barricade during the Newark Riots

July 1967

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A black and white photograph of six (6) National Guards standing behind a makeshift barricade. Their rifles are raised, and they are taking aim at a point above and behind the photographer. Many of the boxes making up the barricade are labeled as…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.10.13
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of soldiers entering a store during the Newark Riots

July 1967

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A black-and-white photograph depicting a group of three soliders standing in a store entryway during the Newark riots. The soldiers' backs are to the viewer, and one soldier's gun is raised. A young man dressed in a white shirt and trousers is standing…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.10.10
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Photograph of Spike Lee directing Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" video

1989

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A color photograph of Spike Lee in front of a portrait of Malcolm X. He wears a white t-shirt with red text reading "Fight the Power" over a black long sleeve shirt and a blue New York Knicks baseball cap. Around his neck is a necklace with a large, round…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.127
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Stevie Wonder at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

August 27, 1983; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Stevie Wonder standing at a podium above a large banner during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. Wonder is depicted on the right side of the image wearing a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.2.25
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