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Photograph of Paul Coates and Isabella Salcedo at NMAAHC

March 14, 2024

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A digital image of activist and book publisher Paul Coates with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Isabella Salcedo, at NMAAHC. Salcedo interviewed Paul Coates for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures Coates sitting while Salcedo crouches beside him, both staring into the camera and smiling. Salcedo, on the left, wears a blue/grey short-sleeved shirt with brown pants. Coates, siting on the right, wears a black long sleeved shirt.

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Catalog reference: 2025.12.12.3

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