A color photograph of a man being escorted by a Chicago police officer. He is wearing a plaid shirt, partially unbuttoned with a white t-shirt underneath. Wearing black pants and white shoes, he steps forwards aggressively, head lowered, gaze to the front.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.17
A color photograph composite of a young man's face looking into the camera. It is a composite of multiple photos; behind the boy's face is a city street scene with shadowy figures on the pavement. Layered over the boy's face are the words "HISTORICAL…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.6
A color photograph of Chicago police arresting a bloody man wearing a white shirt and green pants. His hands are behind his back and blood is running down the right side of his face. One of the men arresting him is in plainclothes, one is in police…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.18
A color photograph of a Chicago police officer confronting a mob at a gas station. The officer, in his blue uniform with his billy club raised, is confronting a man with no shirt. next to him a man in black shirt flinching away from the billy club. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.21
A color photograph of six Chicago Police Department officers and one African American plain clothes officer walking among civilians. Wearing black pants, blue uniform shirts, and blue helmets, they walk in a rough line next to several young white men. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.16
A color photograph of men and women on a sidewalk with protest signs in front of real estate agency. The protest signs all pertain to equal housing. In front of the crowd are two police officers, in dark pants, light blue shirts and blue helmets, carrying…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.10
A color photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr speaking into multiple microphones and gripping a podium with both hands. He is wearing a white shirt, black tie, and black suit. In the foreground Albert Raby, also dressed in a black suit, is standing at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.13
A digital image of marchers from the Women's March in Washington, DC on January 21, 2017. The image shows marchers on the National Mall, near Jefferson Dr. SW across from US Department of Agriculture building. At center, an unidentified woman holds a black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.87.4
Dinah Abrahamson (1954 – December 17, 2013) was an American author and politician. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Abrahamson was a member of the Nebraska State Central Committee as well as an active member of the Republican Party. She was also known for her…
An oval-shaped wood dining room table with cabriole legs ending in whorl feet. On underside, proper left side of table is black, stamped serial number [C-831-34-38F]. Leaf attached to table between sides.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.174.1a-f
Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third poet laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and its first Black poet laureate. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017 and…
The diploma that Carlotta Walls received upon graduation from Little Rock Central High School. The diploma consists of black ink printed on white paper; [ Central High School ] is printed at the top along with an illustration of the school building.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.117.3
Colored Training School diploma issued to Regina Egertion Wright on June 25, 1918. This diploma was granted by the Authority of the State of Maryland and the Board of School Commissioners. Wright's years of study were from 1909 to 1911. The diploma was…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.156.15.1
Divine Bradley (born October 9, 1982) is a social imagineer, business coach, youth mentor, motivational speaker, community leader, serial social entrepreneur who founded a youth-led non-profit organization at age 17 in New York City that led to the opening…
A depiction of a segregated café rendered in black and white, with black diners seated in the "Colored" section on the left, and white diners seated in the "White" section on the right. The drawing is signed and dated by the artist on the front.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.73
This image depicts Dizzy Gillespie standing and singing in front of a microphone at a civil rights fundraiser with Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Holding his trumpet in his left hand, he grasps the microphone with his right.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.14
This image depicts musicians Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody performing at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign, May-June 1968. Gillespie, standing to the left, wearing a dark colored sweatshirt, dark pants, and white sneakers, plays his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.17
This imaged depicts musician Dizzy Gillespie, outside, seated on the edge of a platform in a crowd of people at Resurrection City. Gillespie is sitting slightly sideways to the camera, facing to the viewer's right, among other sitting and standing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.40
Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos (born 1 August 1980) is a Brazilian academic, philosopher, writer, and activist. She is best known for her studies on racism and Black feminism.
An issue of the National Organization for Women newsletter, Do It Now, May 1976, Volume IX, No. 4. The front cover reads, in white type on a black ground at the top: "DO IT NOW NOW NOW NOW" with the "O" in each stacked "NOW" being the logo of the National…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.198
Doc C. Lewis (1843 – ?) was a farmer and state legislator in Texas. A Republican, he served from 1881 to 1883 during the Seventeenth Texas Legislature in the Texas House of Representatives. He was one of four African American members of the Texas House at…
Dock Jackson Jordan (October 18, 1866 – October 20, 1943) was an American lawyer, author, politician, educator, historian and civil rights activist. On July 14, 1917, a letter that Jordan wrote criticizing President Woodrow Wilson's segregationist policies…
A black-and-white photograph of a baby being examined by a doctor at a health clinic run by the Black Panther Party in Chicago, Illinois. The baby is at the center of the photograph, being held by a young woman who has lifted up his shirt for the doctor.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.123.7
