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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXIV, No. 7

February 17, 1854

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXIV, No. 7 dated February 17, 1854. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.2
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47

November 23, 1855

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47 dated November 23, 1855. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.8
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 8

February 23, 1855

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 8 dated February 23, 1855. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.5
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26

June 27, 1856

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26 dated June 27, 1856. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.10
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 6

February 8, 1856

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 6 dated February 8, 1856. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.9
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 11

March 13, 1857

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 11 dated March 13, 1857. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.11
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 22

May 29, 1857

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 22 dated May 29, 1857. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.12
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 23

June 5, 1857

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 23 dated June 5, 1857. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages. The name "E. Richards" is handwritten in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.13
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 25

June 19, 1857

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A copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 25 dated June 19, 1857. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper with text printed on the front and back of the four (4) pages.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.41.14
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Visual Arts

The Library Book, Knowledge, Liberty, Justice

1990

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A color linocut in yellow and black depicting a central figure displaying an open book to a group of people. The group is gathered on the left side of the print, with two more individuals on the right side. One of these figures is seated at a desk facing a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.111.91.1
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Visual Arts

The Library Book--Knowledge, Liberty, Justice

1990

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A color linocut in yellow and black depicting a group of people gathered around a book. At the bottom center of the print there is a figure holding an open book. On the left side of the print is a group of ten figures all looking at the open book. On the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.111.91.2
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Books and Published Materials

The Lifer, January/February/March 1974

January/February/March 1974

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This issue of The Lifer magazine, January/February/March 1974, has a cover featuring a black illustration and text. The illustration depicts two knights in armor fighting with swords. A quotation from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1862 book The House of the Dead is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.139.2.2
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Books and Published Materials

The Lifer, November/December 1973

November/December 1973

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This issue of The Lifer magazine, November/December 1973, has a cover image of a black illustration and text. The illustration depicts the outline of a man in a striped jumpsuit incased in a tombstone reading "THE LIFER". His shackled hands are rising up…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.139.2.1
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Photographs and Still Images

The Little Rock Nine

2009; printed 2019

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A black-and-white photograph of the Little Rock Nine, by Platon. The photograph depicts the Little Rock Nine in full length, holding hands, and standing in a row in front of the front entrance to the Little Rock Central High School. Standing from left to…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.33.1
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Racist and Stereotypical Objects

The Lubin Bulletin

1914

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A four page program for Lubin Films, printed in black ink on white paper. The first (cover) page features the silent short film Coon Town Suffragettes with a black and white image of a woman standing on a pedestal like box appearing to address a larger…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.118.260
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Visual Arts

The Man Nobody Killed

1986

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A framed stenciled paint and collaged work on printed commercially available cardboard featuring a portrait image of a young man, the artist Michael Stewart, who died after being beaten by New York City Transit Police following an arrest for writing…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.19
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Record Albums

The Man of Love

1969

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A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album titled "by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The front of the album cover features a drawing of Martin Luther King, Jr. with his arm outstretched. Above his arm, protestors march carrying signs and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.88.15ab
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera

The March on Washington: A Chronological History of Negro Contributions

ca. 1963

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The sleeve has a full-sized blue monochrome photo of a march with black text and text colored by stars-and-stripes. On the right, a line drawing of the statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The label is gray with blue and red text.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.17.36ab
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Photographs and Still Images

The March on Washington. August 28, 1963

August 28,1963; printed 1994

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A black-and-white photograph of two African American men in a crowd at the March on Washington. The man on the left side of the image is clapping his hands, while the man on the right side of the image has raised his right arm and snaps his fingers.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.107.23
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Photographs and Still Images

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Took Place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963

August 28, 1963; scanned 2010

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A digital image of The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963. The image depicts a close-up of a crowd of men and women clapping and chanting or singing. In the background, placards and American…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.11.30
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Photographs and Still Images

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Took Place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963

August 23, 1963; scanned 2010

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A digital image of The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963. The image depicts a close-up of a crowd of young women dressed in school-like uniforms clapping their hands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.11.31
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record covers

The March on Washington: We Shall Overcome!

1963

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The sleeve is white and gold with black, gold, and white text. The label is red with silver text. The album features speeches and music from the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.17.34ab
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Books and Published Materials

The Marrow of Tradition

1901

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This hardcover book is a first edition, first printing of The Marrow of Tradition, a novel by Charles Chesnutt. The novel presents a fictional account of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. The book has a yellow cloth binding. The front cover features the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.165
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Books and Published Materials

The Marrow of Tradition

1901

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This hardcover book is a first edition, first printing of The Marrow of Tradition, a novel by Charles Chesnutt. The novel presents a fictional account of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. The book has a yellow cloth binding. The front cover features the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.75
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