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Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts. Ringgold was born in Harlem, New…
1948 - 1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGFamily Portrait, Father is wearing a Military Uniform.
ca. 1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA fan made of ink on paper board with a wood handle. The fan advertises the Negro Ocean Playground in American Beach, Florida. The front of the fan features an image of children getting ready to go swimming. The back of the fan (side that the handle is…
1923-1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAdvertising fan for the Cotton Club. On the front is a color illustration of a woman's portrait. The woman looks at the viewer and her hair is swept up around her neck to fall over her PL shoulder. Only the top of shoulders, her neck and head are seen. On…
November 16, 2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with restorative justice advocate Dr. Fania Davis. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.10.1.1 and 2025.12.10.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
1972; printed 2021
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white archival print of Fania Davis raising her left fist in defiance as she is loaded onto a Santa Clara County Sheriff prisoner transport bus. Davis wears a knit vest over a ribbed turtleneck and carries a jacket in her right arm. Additional…
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Frances Barrier Williams (February 12, 1855 – March 4, 1944) was an American educator, civil rights and women's rights activist, and the first black woman to gain membership to the Chicago Woman's Club. She became well known for her efforts to have black…
1935–2022
Fannie Mae Ward Birckhead (née Ward; February 28, 1935 – February 9, 2022) was a U.S. community organizer, judge, and politician. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was a plaintiff who successfully challenged the discriminatory election systems of Snow Hill,…
1872–1973
Fannie Cobb Carter (September 30, 1872 – March 29, 1973) was an American educator, humanitarian, and activist for school integration in the United States.
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Dr. Fannie Hagen Emanuel (July 31, 1871 – March 31, 1934) was an American medical doctor and civic leader active in Chicago over the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1908 she founded the Emanuel Settlement House in Chicago.
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Fannie Franklin Wall (c. 1860–1944) was an American clubwoman, civic leader, community activist, and children's home founder.
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Fannie Hopkins Hamilton (1882–1964) was an African-American dress maker and suffragist who joined the Equal Suffrage Study Club and uplifted the black community in Wilmington, Delaware. She was a leader, contributor, activist, and supportive teacher…
1921–2007
Fannie Lee Chaney (née Roberts; September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) was an American baker turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1964 Freedom Summer rides in Mississippi. After her son's murder,…
1926–2018
Fannie Lewis (June 6, 1926 – August 11, 2008) was Cleveland, Ohio's longest-serving councilwoman and civil rights activist, best known for the Fannie Lewis Law requiring government contracts in Cleveland provide for employment of local workers. In 1986,…
1917–1977
Hamer endured violence to register Black voters and challenged the exclusion of Black delegates at the 1964 Democratic convention.
1840–1922
Fannie M. Richards (October 1, 1840 – February 13, 1922) was an American educator. She created the first kindergarten program in Michigan, and for that was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She also protested against the segregation of…
1918–2005
Fannie Mae Duncan (July 5, 1918 — September 13, 2005) was an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and community activist in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is best known as the proprietor of the Cotton Club, an early integrated jazz club in…
1914–2013
Fannie Emma Pennington (February 1, 1914 – February 13, 2013) was an American activist, organizer, and fundraising coordinator for U.S. Congressional Representative (Harlem) Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s Isaac Democratic Club and the Abyssinian Baptist Church…
1917–2016
Fannie Phelps Adams (née Fannie Delores Phelps; June 17, 1917 – May 30, 2016) was an American educator and activist from South Carolina. She was known for her commitment to helping encourage the minds of Black youth during Jim Crow. She is among the '101…
Biography
Fannie R. Givens (née Hicks; May 29, 1861 to August 4, 1947) was an artist, missionary, and political activist. Mainly a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, she created and taught art in many forms including painting and poetry and served as a policewoman…
January 15, 1969; printed 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black and white photograph shows Harry Belafonte seated in a car after the first commemorative birthday event for Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1969. Belafonte is smiling slightly and looking out of the car window toward the…
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Farai Chideya (; born July 27, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American novelist, multimedia journalist, and radio host. She produced and hosted Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya, a series of radio specials on politics for 15 years.…
1934
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis drawing depicts aspects and symbols of war and fascism. The central figure is a monumental skeleton in an enveloping black robe. Within his arms are a ship, a submarine and an airplane. To the right of the skeletal figure is a monumental figure of a…
October 16, 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black-and-white photograph depicts a man and his two young sons; he carries the younger one on his shoulders while holding the older one in front of him, arms around his shoulders. They stand turned slightly away from the viewer. All three wear…
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