An issue of Political Affairs. The front cover features black print on a purple background reading [Political Affairs] over a target graphic and [THE MEANING OF / WATTS]. The interior contains sixty-four pages of text. Content focuses on uprisings in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.87
A pamphlet made of black ink on off-white paper. The front cover has the journal title [Political Affairs] over a bullseye design. Below the title text reads: [The Battle of Black Liberation / Special Issue / 50¢]. The interior contains ninety-seven pages…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.53
A sepia toned digital image of children running in front of a political billboard for Mayor James M. Hewgley. Written below the image is “4/1/4/69 POLITICAL BILLBOARD – NORTH TULSA.”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.67.19
White card with black printed text aligned at the center. Names are in bold. It reads [DAISY has a little LAMB / Whose face is white as snow, / Everywhere DAISY goes, / LAMB, TUCKER, and MATSON / are sure to go.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.13.2
A black-and-white digital image of CEO and Head Designer of Sun Gods LaShawn Kenley taken by Remigio Newton. The image was taken on the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D. C., on June 6, 2020, the 12th consecutive day of national protests against…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.80
A poll tax certificate issued to Alice Irby of Selma, Alabama by the United States Civil Service Commission, Voting Rights Act of 1965. The page is white paper with black printed ink text and fields. The fields have been filled in by hand in blue ink. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.65
A poll tax receipt made out to Lee Carr. The receipt is on white paper with black and red ink and has set fields including Age, State, Citizen, Sex, and Race. The information is filled out by hand. The receipt, issued in 1955, provides that the voter has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.104
Pollie Anne Myers-Pinkins (née Myers; July 14, 1932 – March 17, 2003) was an American civil rights activist. She and Autherine Lucy were the first African Americans admitted to the University of Alabama in 1952, and both fought to desegregate the…
Pope Barrow Billups (October 11, 1889 – December 6, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented the 21st district in the New York State Assembly. Pope Billups was born in Athens, Georgia, and graduated from the Florida Baptist Academy in…
Porsha Dyanne Williams (born June 22, 1981) is an American television personality, singer, actress and activist. She starred on the reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta from 2012 until 2021, rejoining the cast in 2024. She also starred in the…
This is a black and white portrait drawing of Etta Moten Barnett. It depicts her from the neck up. Her neck and the top of her shoulders are roughly sketched in, while her face and hair are rendered in detail. She is shown in a quarter profile turning…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.80
A black-and-white film negative featuring the image of a man and woman on a Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide motorcycle outside of Anderson's studio. The woman sits behind the man and both wear leather jackets and headgear. A fringed saddle bag is visible…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.21.77.D
A mimeograph reproduction of Portrait of a Man, by Lorraine Clarke for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black ink on white paper, it is a reproduction of a charcoal portrait of a man in bust pose. He is shown from the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.117.2.11
A mimeograph reproduction of Portrait of a Youth, by Harold Collins for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black ink on white paper, it is a reproduction of a charcoal drawn portrait of a teenage boy. The boy’s head and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.117.2.10
A black and white photograph of Audre Lorde. She is featured standing, facing the camera with her hands in her pockets. The back of the photograph has caption information at center and the number [3034] in the top left corner.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.83.8
This is an oil painting of Etta Moten Barnett by Mary C. Peterson. It depicts Etta Moten Barnett standing in the center of the portrait, shown from the thighs up. She stands with her hands clasped together in front of her, her body and head very slightly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.6
A black-and-white portrait of Little Milton playing a Fender Telecaster guitar. Little Milton is wearing a light colored suit with a dark colored tie. The telecaster guitar has a flat asymmetric single-cutaway body.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.21.49.C
Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.25
A black and white photograph of Norma Pearl Sartin, Annie Lee Taylor, and Laura Parker. The three young girls are smiling in a close angle. The girl to the left of the image has her left arm around the shoulders of the girl in the foreground of the image.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.3
A black-and-white film negative featuring the image of three young men, dressed in tuxedos and sitting on a large swing. The two on the right wear white jackets and all have their legs crossed.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.21.78.B
