A biographical docudrama about Martin Luther King Jr. with the title The Boy King. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with bilateral variable area optical sound. The film dramatizes the life of young Martin Luther King Jr. (Fred…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.9.1a
A short film with the title The Boyhood of Martin Luther King Jr. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The film uses voiceover narration, archival photographs, archival film footage as well as reenactments to tell…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.97.1a
A pamphlet of red and black print on yellowed paper. The cover features a political cartoon where Jimmy Carter is portrayed as the Statue of Liberty. The smoke from his torch, labeled [THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN], is creating a smokescreen for US…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.46
A pamphlet written by Paul Boutelle. The front cover features the title [The Case for an Independent Black Party] in green ink. Below the title, the head-and-shoulders silhouette of a figure goes through five shading shifts from left to right. The interior…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.64
A first edition, octavo volume of The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court with sewn self-wrappers. The title and publishing information are printed in black ink, centered on the front wrap against a plain background: [The Case / OF / DRED…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.262
A hardcover book titled “The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan” written by Thomas F. Dixon. The 374-paged book has a red cover with white lettering. The front pastedown page has a bookplate adhered to it at top left. The bookplate reads…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.231.17
A pamphlet from The Color Line Series. The front cover is blue paper with black ink. The interior consists of thirty-one pages of text and an appendix. Black ink on blue paper. The back of the pamphlet is blank except for a union printing label in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.70
A chromolithograph of a soldier in a World War I uniform holding the hand of a woman in a blue dress. In the background troops are marching away. One of the troops is holding an American flag. "The Colored Man is No Slacker" is printed at the bottom center.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.2.3
A pamphlet titled [The Communist Party and the Emancipation of the Negro People]. The pamphlet consists of black ink on browned paper. The cover features, at center, a photograph of the head and shoulders of Earl Browder. The interior contains sixteen…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.67
An issue of The Communist. The front cover features rust-colored print on tan paper. In the same rust-colored ink, at center, is a depiction of three employed workers expressing solidarity with an unemployed man. The interior consists of 384 pages of text.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.83
A hardcover copy of The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Numerous Illustrations. It is a cloth-bound book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The book has a brick red cover with embossed gold leaf and black text and design…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.10
A hardcover copy of The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate Illustrated Edition. The book has burgundy leather front and back covers. It is a leatherbound hardcover book with a sewn binding with gilded page edges. The front cover is embossed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.8
Cataloged as “The Congress of African American Architects Paradigms for a Different Future by Dean Harry G. Robinson III, FAIA AICP Dean Howard University School of Architecture” (Text).
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2018.23_ref77
The May 1915 (Vol. 10 No. 1) issue of The Crisis. The front cover is purple and white and features a photograph of a baby wearing a bonnet looking off to the left. There are approximately 50 pages.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.14
The November 1915 (Vol. 11 No. 1) issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman wearing a white hat and a pearl necklace taken by Cornelius Battey. There are approximately 50 pages.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.15
The January 1916 (Vol. 11 No. 3) issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a reproduction of the 1904 painting, "To the Highest Bidder" by Harry Roseland. The black-and-white reproduction depicts a mother and daughter standing in front of a sign that…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.12
The January 1917 (Vol. 13 No. 3) "Richmond, Virginia, Number" issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a photograph by George W. Brown of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Virginia. The photograph shows the four-story building with a large flag…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.10
The February 1917 (Vol. 13 No. 4) issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a photograph of Richard T. Greener, the first African American graduate of Harvard and a dean of the Howard University Law School. There are approximately 48 pages.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.9
March 1917 issue of The Crisis Magazine. The cover is printed in red ink. The front features a multi-paneled line drawing of trees, signed [LRLATIMER] in the bottom left. In the center of the panels is a hand-lettered quote [To sin by silence / when we…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.15.1
May 1917 issue of The Crisis Magazine. The cover is printed in black and features an illustration of a young woman with a large feather in her hair, standing next to a large vase of flowers sitting on a small table. The printing is cropped closely along…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.15.2
June 1917 issue of The Crisis Magazine. The front cover of the magazine features a full page black and white photograph of an older man, captured by C.M. Battey. The background is a dark grey. White text at the top left reads [THE CRISIS / JUNE / 1917].…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.15.3
The July 1917 (Vol. 14 No. 3) "Education Number" issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a sketch of African American soldiers in a trench with an American flag waving behind them. Beneath the portrait is printed "Education Number." There are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.5
August 1917 issue of The Crisis Magazine. The front cover features a color, full page, art nouveau style design with an illustration of a young man and a young woman in front of a landscape with a lake or river inset into a circle and flanked by vines with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.15.4
