A film clip with the title “Malcolm X Liberation University.” The clip is a short documentary made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program. In it, producer St. Clair Bourne chronicles the opening of Malcolm X Liberation…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.68.1abc
This 16mm film is a special half-hour-long documentary produced for the National Educational Television program Black Journal. It examines the cultural and historical life of African nation of Ethiopia. Film clip from Black Journal: 21. It consist of a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.49.1a
This 16mm color film is an hour-long documentary segment of Episode No. 22 of the NET (National Educational Television) television program Black Journal, a weekly public television newsmagazine in the late 1960s/early 1970s that examined the many issues…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.51.1a
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the 1970 mayoral campaign of Ken Gibson, and an African American voter registration drive with special musical…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.79.1a
Film clip from Episode 23 of the Black Journal television program. It consists of a single reel of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound. The film begins with tracking shots from a moving vehicle as it moves through an unidentified neighborhood. In a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.42.1a
The 16mm color film print is a short documentary made for a segment of National Education Television's Black Journal television program. The segment focuses on the life of Alice Coltrane and her children in the wake of the death of her husband, famed jazz…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.16.1a
"Biafra" and "The Bandits" are two short dramatic films produced in the late sixties by the National Educational Television's Broadcast Training School. Both short films aired on NET's Black Journal television series.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref246
16mm black and white film of two short dramatic films produced by the National Educational Television's Broadcast Training School for Episode 3 of the Black Journal television series. "Biafra" is a short dramatic film produced by the National Educational…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.57.1a
This 16mm color film is a short documentary produced for the Black Journal television program on the early and promising political career of Julian Bond; a civil rights activist and then member of the Georgia State Legislature. In this short film, Julian…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.99.1a
A short documentary made for the National Education Television's Black Journal television program. It consists of a single reel of 16mm black-and-white acetate film with optical sound and was made from compiled footage of Malcolm X to commemorate the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.37.1a
Part One of a documentary film with the title Color Us Black. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The documentary focuses on the circumstances surrounding the 1968 student-led rebellion and subsequent shut…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.55.1a
16mm film of Episode 28 of the television show Black Journal aired on National Educational Television (NET). The episode is in black and white and begins with text flashing on the screen just before a countdown begins. The screen becomes white and the TV…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.32.1.1ab
A black lace and rust satin cocktail dress worn by Billie Holiday. The black lace is overlay covers the rust-colored satin completely. The satin portion of the dress has a strapless bodice that is fitted through the waist and flares out into a full skirt.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.59.3.1
A shoulderless black lace dress with light blue, red, purple, yellow, violet, royal blue and green satin ribbon embellishments designed by Peter Davy. The dress is made from a black net lace with an allover pattern of small black woven dots. The bodice is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.88
Black leather bag with leather strap. Black leather has significant cracking. Metal plate at front with black and grey type reading, [EASYLINE/BAGAGES]. Bag has four zippered compartments.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.40.1
A black leather bomber style jacket worn by Gil Scott-Heron. The jacket zips at the center front. The cuffs, hem, and neck are all made from a black ribbed double knit synthetic fiber with elasticity. There are two (2) welted inset pockets, one at each…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.52.1
This pair of black leather pants are similar in appearance to pants worn by dancer Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans on the television show "Soul Train." The full-length black leather pants have tapered legs and deep pleats at the right and left front waist. A…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.30.2
A pair of black leather pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles. The pants feature a 1.5” wide waist band of black leather with five .5” self-fabric belt loops sewn around it. There are two deep front pockets, one on each side, and an inner fifth pocket inside…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.60.4
A pair of black leather tapered pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles. The pants feature a 1.25” wide waistband with five .25” wide self-fabric belt loops sewn equidistantly around it. There are two 2” pleats on each side of the front of the pants and two 6”…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.60.5
A black leotard made by Mondor worn on Soul Train by dancer Sheri Byers in the late 1970s. It is made from two layers of black nylon knit fabric that are joined together at the shoulder, armscye, side seams, and crotch. The interior layer is made from a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.9.3
A pamphlet about the Black Panther Party. The font cover features black print on discolored paper. At top, there is a black and white photograph of members of the Black Panther Party standing in a line. The interior consists of fourteen pages of text.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.28
A pair of black loafer-style pumps. The outside of the shoe is made from two panels of black vinyl machine sewn together and a panel of black elastic is machine sewn along the top line. There is a rounded toe and at the vamp is a 1” wide tongue. On the tox…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.981ab
