The April 1915 (Vol. 9 No. 6) "Easter Number" issue of The Crisis. The front cover features a colored photograph of a woman wearing a necklace facing, in profile, to the right. Surrounding the portrait is an illustrated frame with an Easter lily on each…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.84.13
Pamphlet consisting of black print on yellowed paper. At the top and center left is a black-and-white photograph of Henry Winston. The interior consists of twenty-three pages. The back of the pamphlet has an appeal for the reader to appeal to political action.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.25.1-.2
A hardcover copy of The Deaconship by R.B.C. Howell. The hardcover book is bound with black book cloth with a faux leather texture and gold embossing. The book’s dust jacket is primarily white with blue text. The front of the dust jacket features two blue…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.35
The East Village Other newspaper, volume 5, number 6 from January 14, 1970. The front cover features a large, stylized depiction of a silhouette of a church window in green. In the bottom half of the cover is a cropped, black and white photograph of a man…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.109.7.12
A black-and-white photograph of the Selma to Montgomery march progressing over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where marchers were later attacked in an event known as Bloody Sunday.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.14.18
An essay written and released by member of the Office of the Emigrant Aid Society of Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1879, titled "The Exodus: An Appeal to the Philanthropic People of the North for Aid and Sympathy." It is printed on a single sheet…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.27
At center, a depiction of a parade in celebration of the passing of the 15th Amendment. Framing it are portraits and vignettes illustrating the rights granted by the 15th Amendment: "We till our own fields," "The Ballot Box is Open to Us," "We Unite in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.45.11
A copy of "The Final Call" from October 10, 2015. The top center of the newspaper reads [The Final Call] in a bold, black, fancy font. There is a color drawing of a trumpet on the proper right side with lines coming out of it. To the left of the words…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.251.13
A digital image of the first sit-in by the Chapel Hill Freedom Movement at the Chapel Hill Merchants Association. In the foreground, black and white students lie in the street; in the background are policemen, onlookers, and a cameraman.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.11.13
Page from a July 1868 issue of Harper's Weekly. The off-white page from Harper's Weekly has a black-and-white print of a wood engraving. It depicts a uniformed figure representing the Freedmen's Bureau at center, holding out his hand to stop a group of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.6
Card number 64.8 in a series of information cards relating to major historical events in the United States. On front, the title and photos of the three murdered Civil Rights workers. On back, black text giving the history of the Freedom Summer murders.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.17.169
Booklet of yellowed paper and black text. Title reads "THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL ENACTED BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS." The entire bill is 8 pages, seven of which are printed with bold black mourning borders. The rear cover features a reproduction of an…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.5
A hardcover copy of Africa: The Golden Book Picture Atlas of The World, Book 5 by Golden Press. The hardcover book is paperboard bound and laminated. The front cover is two shades of two shades of mulberry purple and features a large color topographic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.15
A sepia tone albumen photograph of a photomechanical newspaper image capturing the grand jury that indicted Jefferson Davis. Captioned at the top of the heavily faded image is: [THE GRAND JURY / This is the Grand Jury that indicted Mr. Davis, and was the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.40
