A black asymmetrical fringe dressd designed by Tamechi Briggs and worn on Soul Train by dancer Sharon Hill in the 1970s. The body of the dress is made from two panels of black asymmetrical polyester seamed together at the sides and the proper right hem is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.89
A Gator brand molded guitar case made of hard, black plastic and metal. The exterior has black plastic handles and wheels with silver metal hinges and clasps. The interior is made from a yellow spray foam and a light-colored cloth. The exterior of the case…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.177.3.1b
An unworn pair of black half hose from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The crew length socks are constructed from sheer, black, nylon mesh. At the cuff is a thick woven band with very thin ribbing. The socks are reinforced at the heels,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.44ab
Benjamin Rucker (1892 – April 15, 1934) was an American stage magician, better known by his stage name Black Herman. He was the most prominent African-American magician of his time. He appears as a major character in Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo-Jumbo.
A documentary film with the title “Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed” from the television series Of Black America. It consists of a single reel of color acetate film with optical sound. The documentary opens with narrator Bill Cosby discussing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.6.1a
A black men's jacket with a neon orange painted and stenciled pattern designed by Bernard G. Jacobs and worn by Ralph Johnson, percussionist for Earth, Wind & Fire. The vintage jacket was customized by Elmer Ave. The single-breasted jacket has full-length…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.147.2
Black double-breasted dinner jacket worn by LaMonte McLemore of The 5th Dimension. The black wool jacket has full-length sleeves and a notched silk satin collar. There are four (4) satin-covered buttons at the center front, only the bottom proper right…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.198.1
A black wool Hilfiger brand men's sport jacket with lime green pinstripes customized by Bernard G. Jacobs and worn by Phlip Bailey, vocalist for Earth, Wind, & Fire. The single-breasted jacket has full-length straight cut sleeves, a notched collar, and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.147.4.1
A black jacket with the Hot 97 logo. The jacket is made of cotton twill and has a black leather collar. The jacket opens in the center front with a metal zipper and a metal snap at the top of the zipper and at the bottom of the zipper. The jacket has long…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.30.4
This oil painting depicts a human figure with arms extended horizontally. The figure wears a long loose dark red/brown robe that flares outward towards the hem. The figure's head, an oval with two white spots for eyes as the only defined features, has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.168
A film clip with the title “Malcolm X Liberation University.” The clip is a short documentary made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program. In it, producer St. Clair Bourne chronicles the opening of Malcolm X Liberation…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.68.1abc
This 16mm film is a special half-hour-long documentary produced for the National Educational Television program Black Journal. It examines the cultural and historical life of African nation of Ethiopia. Film clip from Black Journal: 21. It consist of a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.49.1a
This 16mm color film is an hour-long documentary segment of Episode No. 22 of the NET (National Educational Television) television program Black Journal, a weekly public television newsmagazine in the late 1960s/early 1970s that examined the many issues…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.51.1a
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the 1970 mayoral campaign of Ken Gibson, and an African American voter registration drive with special musical…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.79.1a
Film clip from Episode 23 of the Black Journal television program. It consists of a single reel of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound. The film begins with tracking shots from a moving vehicle as it moves through an unidentified neighborhood. In a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.42.1a
The 16mm color film print is a short documentary made for a segment of National Education Television's Black Journal television program. The segment focuses on the life of Alice Coltrane and her children in the wake of the death of her husband, famed jazz…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.16.1a
"Biafra" and "The Bandits" are two short dramatic films produced in the late sixties by the National Educational Television's Broadcast Training School. Both short films aired on NET's Black Journal television series.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref246
16mm black and white film of two short dramatic films produced by the National Educational Television's Broadcast Training School for Episode 3 of the Black Journal television series. "Biafra" is a short dramatic film produced by the National Educational…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.57.1a
This 16mm color film is a short documentary produced for the Black Journal television program on the early and promising political career of Julian Bond; a civil rights activist and then member of the Georgia State Legislature. In this short film, Julian…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.99.1a
A short documentary made for the National Education Television's Black Journal television program. It consists of a single reel of 16mm black-and-white acetate film with optical sound and was made from compiled footage of Malcolm X to commemorate the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.37.1a
Part One of a documentary film with the title Color Us Black. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The documentary focuses on the circumstances surrounding the 1968 student-led rebellion and subsequent shut…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.55.1a
16mm film of Episode 28 of the television show Black Journal aired on National Educational Television (NET). The episode is in black and white and begins with text flashing on the screen just before a countdown begins. The screen becomes white and the TV…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.32.1.1ab
A black lace and rust satin cocktail dress worn by Billie Holiday. The black lace is overlay covers the rust-colored satin completely. The satin portion of the dress has a strapless bodice that is fitted through the waist and flares out into a full skirt.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.59.3.1
