A black and white photograph of a woman holding a poster at the Martin Luther King Memorial March in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. The woman is in the midst of a march and is carrying a sign with printed text that reads: [I AM A MAN]. The sign has been…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.43.2
A quilt of composed of colorful cotton fabrics with beads and sequins depicting the figure of a woman in a green dress against the stars and stripes imagery of the United States flag. Oriented vertically, the main field of the quilt is composed of strips…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.27.5
A short, animated film with the title "I, Destini." It is held as an Apple ProRes file (2018.94.1.1) with a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) (2018.94.1.2). In the opening scene, Destini introduces herself before beginning a monologue about nature documentaries…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.94.1.1
A quilted and appliquéd textile portrait of Harriet Tubman by Bisa Butler, based on the carte-de-visite photograph portrait of Tubman by Benjamin F. Powelson (NMAAHC 2017.30.47). The quilt depicts Tubman, in multiple bright-colored fabrics, seated against…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.38
A documentary short with the title "I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm polyester film with an optical sound track. With an emphasis on Dr. King's public appearances, the documentary shows…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.82.1a
A documentary short with the title "I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm polyester film with an optical sound track. With an emphasis on Dr. King's public appearances, the documentary shows…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.83.1a
Black and white linocut of passengers on a bus. The first bus seat in the foreground has a [COLORED ONLY] sign at the top. There are four unidentified women seated behind this sign. The central woman in front is wearing a textured jacket. The title is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.21.11
This black-and-white photograph depicts a man leaning on a roughly cut-out wooden sign that reads "1 / LOVE." Wearing a polo shirt and a light zip up jacket, he gazes to the viewer's right. In the background is a milling crowd of men, slightly out of focus.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.47
A hardcover book (a) with original dust jacket (b) of the autobiography by Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made. The hardback book is clothbound in solid, dark blue book cloth. In the bottom right corner of the front cover are the initials “J.R.”, stamped…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.41ab
A four-part documentary film with the title I Remember Harlem. It consists of four (4) reels of 16mm color polyester film with optical sound. The documentary uses archival footage, interviews with residents, and still photographs to chronicle the early…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.85.1a-d
Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson (born May 16, 1942) is an American politician in the state of South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1970 to 1980, representing Richland County, South Carolina, as a Democrat. He is a lawyer…
Sheet music for the song "I've Got the World on a String" Cotton Club Parade 21st edition. The front cover is divided into four triangular fields of alternating red and blue that fan outwards from a point towards the bottom right margin. A white rectangle…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.223.9
A black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. sitting in a chair. A group of men stand behind him; all of the men appear to be watching something off-camera.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.14.4
Ian Kyle Conyers (born October 28, 1988) is an American politician and businessman who represented the 4th District of Michigan in the Michigan Senate for one term. Conyers sat on the Economic Development & International Investment, Energy & Technology,…
Ian Desmond Gosford Hall (18 January 1940 – 11 May 2022) was a Guyanese-born British musician, composer, organist and educator. Also a human rights activist, Hall was quoted in 2003 as saying: "My real thing in life has been promoting racial harmony…
Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé (19 December 1952 – 9 February 2016), formerly known as Elias Farajajé-Jones, was a queer theologian, AIDS activist, scholar, spiritual leader, academic and professor. In 2023 a festschrift entitled Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman…
An oral history interview and conversation with community organizer and activist Ibrahim Mumin. It consists of three versions of digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.16.1.1 and 2025.12.16.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.16.1
Ibram Xolani Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers; August 13, 1982) is an American author, professor, anti-racism activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in the U.S. He is author of books including Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be an…
An ice bucket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The small, silver toned bucket has plain interior and exterior walls and two round, flat handles with semicircular cutouts, soldered to each side. The bucket has a narrow base that tapers outward into a wide,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.60
O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His efforts on N.W.A's 1989 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's popularity, and his political rap solo…
