Printed handbill annoucing a "Prayer Meeting and Song Fest" with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the United Methodist Church of Boston, MA on March 23, 1956. The meeting was sponsored by the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.18
Printed handbill annoucing a "Prayer Meeting and Song Fest" with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the United Methodist Church of Boston, MA on March 23, 1956. The meeting was sponsored by the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.21
Printed handbill advertising a Boston event celebrating the Brown v. The Board of Education decision. The flier consists of black printed text on beige paper, reading: "Youth Celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation May 17, 1954" and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.14
Printed handbill advertising a Boston event celebrating the Brown v. The Board of Education decision. The flier consists of black printed text on beige paper, reading: "Youth Celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation May 17, 1954" and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.6
Printed handbill advertising Negro History Week programming at the Freedom House in Boston. The flier is on beige paper with printed black text reading [NEGRO HISTORY WEEK / Jazz Program / FREEDOM HOUSE] at the top. The programming includes lectures on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.13
Printed handbill advertising Negro History Week programming at the Freedom House in Boston. The flier is on beige paper with printed black text reading [NEGRO HISTORY WEEK / Jazz Program / FREEDOM HOUSE] at the top. The programming includes lectures on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.7
Printed handbill advertising Negro History Week programming at the Freedom House in Boston. The flier is on beige paper with printed black text reading [NEGRO HISTORY WEEK / Jazz Program / FREEDOM HOUSE] at the top. The programming includes lectures on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.8
A handbill advertising a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Auburn, New York. The handbill is off white with red ink. The front of the handbill reads “Kome KLANSMAN Kome / KAYUGA KOUNTY KLAN / Field Day and Demonstration / Lakeside Park, Auburn / Saturday &…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.231.5
A printed handbill advertising a speaking engagement sponsored by the Boston Branch of the NAACP for Rev. Morris H. Tynes, Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church in Chicago, regarding the Emmett Till case at the A.M.E. Zion Church in Boston on Sunday October…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.1
A printed handbill advertising a speaking engagement sponsored by the Boston Branch of the NAACP for Rev. Morris H. Tynes, Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church in Chicago, regarding the Emmett Till case at the A.M.E. Zion Church in Boston on Sunday October…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.2
A handbill urging residents of Alabama to register to vote in the Presidential Pre-Primary to re-elect the present Ward 9 Democratic Committee. The flier is printed in black ink on pink paper. At the top is [DEMAND! / PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ACT / To End /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.34.19
White flyer with a black and white illustration of Malcolm X inside a thick bordered box in the upper half. The illustration features Malcolm X in three-quarter profile view, looking to the right. Below the illustration is the handbill information,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.8.1-2
A handbill announcing a Mass Memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. The announcement features images of Martin Luther King, Jr and Huey P. Newton at the top. Text below gives information about the event and demands made by the activist group.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.127
A political handbill in support of Angelo Herndon. The handbill is constructed of a thin, light brown paper, and has black text throughout. At the top is a black-and-white image of a chained male prisoner, dressed in stripes, standing in front of a cage on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.125.2
Standard police-issued chain style handcuffs. The handcuffs are made of nickel and consist of two locking bracelets linked by a short chain. Embossed on the base of each bracelet is [HIATTS / MADE IN / ENGLAND]. Etched on the side of each bracelet is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.11
A square handkerchief made of machine-woven off-white linen or cotton with three borders of machine-made lacework. The innermost and outermost lacework motifs are bobbin lace designs of a chain with one thick and one thin link on a mesh ground. Between…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.50.40.3
A red, white, and blue linen square handkerchief promoting the Double V campaign of World War II. The white fabric is printed with red and blue dye to create a design of three (3) vertical stripes colored from left to right in red, white, and blue. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.24
A handmade sign used at a demonstration led by a Unitarian Church in south St. Louis, Missouri located on the corner of Hampton Avenue and Chippewa Street, following the killing of VonDerrit Myers. The white, posterboard sign has text written in blue ink…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.110
A handwritten note from President Barack Obama to Karine Jean-Pierre upon her appointment as White House press secretary in 2022. The note is written on white paper and is attached to a slightly larger paper at the back with tape. The text [Barack Obama]…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.31.5
A handwritten program in black ink on folded legal-size paper outlining a Ferguson, Missouri rally in October of 2014. The program runs from 12:05 to 12:43. It starts with an opening including the family of Michael Brown and then continues with sections…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.192.2
Harold Andrew "Hank" Allen (July 23, 1940 – May 29, 2024) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in Major League Baseball, primarily as an outfielder, for the Washington Senators (1966–1970), Milwaukee Brewers (1970) and Chicago White…
Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. (born October 2, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
This black-and-white photograph depicts the Campanella All Stars baseball team members, who stand along the first base line. Inscription on the front reads, "CAMPANELLA / ALL STARS / 1952 / WITHERS / MEMPHIS ."
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.16.13
Hannah Diggs Atkins (November 1, 1923 – June 17, 2010) was the member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 97th district from 1968 to 1980, and the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She was later…
