A color photograph of Danielle Spencer as the character "Dee," in a scene from the sitcom "What's Happening!!" Spencer is captured displaying a surprised look with her hand over her mouth. Spencer is pictured from the shoulders up, turned slightly towards…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.111.5.1
Color photograph of Danielle Spencer as the character “Dee,” eating peanut butter in a scene from the pilot episode of the sitcom “What’s Happening!!” Spencer is depicted sitting on a tan couch with a yellow blanket draped over the back. She is wearing a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.111.5.4
Color photograph depicting a scene from Season 1, Episode 2 of the sitcom “What’s Happening!!” depicting Mabel King as the character “Mama,” Danielle Spencer as the character “Dee,” and Ernest Thomas as the character “Raj.” The three actors are depicting…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.111.5.5
A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Natalie Riddick, at Muse’s home in Brentwood, California. Riddick was part of the Social Justice Conversations Oral History…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.6
A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse at her home in Brentwood, California. The image captures Muse sitting, looking directly at the camera smiling. She wears a red long-sleeved shirt, a black headband, and colorful earrings. In the background…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.2
A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse at her home in Brentwood, California. The image captures Muse sitting, looking directly at the camera smiling. She wears a red long-sleeved shirt, a black headband, and colorful earrings. In the background…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.3
A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick (Loyola Marymount University) and Kailyn Bailey (Howard…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.4
A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, along with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick and Kailyn Bailey, at Muse's home in Brentwood,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.5
This is a color photograph depicting Dapper Dan in his clothing boutique in Harlem, New York. Dan is pictured just right of center, clutching a white fur coat and looking directly at the camera. He wears a white tracksuit jacket and hat printed with the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.91
A black and white photograph depicting a young boy, David Matthew Doré, standing on the bimah in front of the Torah scrolls during a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Four older men in tallit, including Rabbi Wentworth A. Matthew, sit against the wall. Three young…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.150.9.8
A black and white photograph of Denise Oliver, the first female member of Young Lords Party Central Committee. Oliver stands above two unidentified men and holds a document in front of her with her left hand. One of the unidentified men is holding a flag.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.186.3
Full color photograph of American mezzo-soprano opera singer, Denyce Graves, wearing a pink and black satin flamenco-style designed by Donna Langman for Act IV in the Washington National Opera's production of "Carmen". This candid photograph of Graves in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.49.3
A black and white photograph of three tennis players holding trophies. From left to right, unidentified man, Desmond Margetson, and Reginald Weir. The unidentified man is holding two trophies. Margetson, in the middle is holding his trophy and his racquet.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.205.15
A black-and-white photograph of the destroyed Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma after the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the foreground is a stone foundation littered with and surrounded by ash. The background features remnants of building façades. There is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.95.7
A black-and-white photograph of African American men standing in a loose line, with hands raised in surrender, along what appears to be a residential street. Several white men are visible standing between the line and the camera, many with hands on their…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.95.6
A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with members of his fan club. Hawkins is depicted standing just right of center with a large group of teenage fans, arranged in roughly a semicircle, during a jam session inside a school…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.91.2.20
A sepia toned photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins in a U.S. Army uniform. Hawkins depicted in bust pose with his body turn slightly towards the left side of the photograph and his head turned, facing the viewer. He is wearing an enlisted man's…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.91.2.26
A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins standing behind the altar of Shiloh Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Hawkins is depicted behind the tiered, light-toned altar, centered on a dark wooden dais. He is smiling and looking…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.91.2.16
A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins posing with a high school fan club. The photograph depicts Hawkins standing next to four rows of nineteen teenage boys and girls inside a school gymnasium. Hawkins stand in the front on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.91.2.14
A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend and three men wearing coats and ties. They are standing outside of a building, in front of a door with a sign saying [KITCHEN] above it. A window is to the right of the door. On back on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.45
A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend and two men standing together. Dr. Townsend is in the middle and flanked by two unidentified men. All three wear suits and ties. In the background is a tree on the right side. On the back, a stamp…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.43
A black-and-white photograph of three people, Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend, one unidentified man, and one unidentified woman, standing in the doorway to a barn. On the back of the photograph is a number written in pencil [23].
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.32
A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Charles A. Davis and Mrs. Georgia Davis standing in a yard. In front of them is a small fern. Mrs. Davis, on the left, is wearing a dark color dress with light color trim around the neckline and sleeves. Dr. Davis, on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.28
A digital image of activist and politican Dr. Frank Smith and Temple University student James Gray III at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWMM) in Washington D.C. Gray interviewed Dr. Smith for the Social Justice Conversations Oral…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.4.3
