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Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 × 3/16 in. (20.2 × 25.4 × 0.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Walter C. Pierce Community Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: May 1973

Topic: African American; Local and regional; Photography; Recreation

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives

Object number: 2011.15.32

Rights: © Milton Williams

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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April 4

Created by: Gilliam, Sam, American, born 1933
Subject of: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 73 7/8 x 49 7/8 x 2 5/16 in. (187.6 x 126.7 x 5.9 cm); H x W: 72 x 78 in. (182.9 x 198.1 cm)

Type: acrylic paintings

Place made: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1972

Topic: African American; Art; Civil Rights; Local and regional

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2011.37.1

Rights: © Sam Gilliam. Permission required for use.

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Portfolio/Series: Martin Luther King Series
Classification: Visual Arts
Exhibition: Visual Art and the American Experience
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 052

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Pinback button for the BET's celebration of Barack Obama's Inauguration

Created by: BET Networks, American, founded 2001
Subject of: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961

Medium: plastic and metal
Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (8.9 x 6.4 cm)

Type: buttons (information artifacts)

Place depicted: National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 2009

Topic: African American; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1969-2001

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Chris Usher

Object number: 2009.20

Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Letter to Althea Gibson from Sheila Ann Hessler

Written by: Hessler, Sheila Ann, American
Received by: Gibson, Althea, American, 1927 - 2003

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/2 x 8 in. (26.7 x 20.3 cm)

Type: letters (correspondence)

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America; Central Park West, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 13, 1959

Topic: African American; Correspondence; Local and regional; Tennis

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2009.27.1.8ab

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials

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Washington, D.C. • USA (March on Washington 8-28-1963)

Created by: Freed, Leonard, American, 1929 - 2006
Subject of: Shropshire, Jacquelyn Bond; Frinks, Golden Asro, 1920 - 2004

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 12 15/16 x 8 1/2 in. (32.9 x 21.7 cm); H x W (Image and Sheet): 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Date: 1963; printed 2006 - 2009

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Local and regional; Photography; Singers (Musicians); United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed

Object number: 2009.36.13

Rights: © Leonard Freed/Magnum. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Revolutionary

Created by: Jarrell, Wadsworth Aikens Sr., American, born 1929
Subject of: Davis, Angela, American, born 1944

Medium: printing ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 31 x 37 1/2 in. (78.7 x 95.3 cm)

Type: screen prints; portraits

Place made: Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1972

Topic: African American; Art; Civil Rights; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.3.1

Rights: © Wadsworth Jarrell

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Classification: Visual Arts
Exhibition: Visual Art and the American Experience
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 052

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Itinerary for Col. Charles Young's trip from Wilberforce, OH to Washington, DC

Written by: Col. Young, Charles, American, 1864 - 1922
Received by: Price, Oscar W., American, born 1894

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W: 5 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (14.9 x 16.5 cm)

Type: itineraries

Place depicted: Wilberforce, Greene, Ohio, United States, North and Central America; Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1918

Topic: African American; Correspondence; Local and regional; Military; Race discrimination; Resistance; World War I

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.39.3

Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials
Exhibition: Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Created by: Esterbrook Pen Company, American, 1947 - 1967
Used by: President Johnson, Lyndon Baines, American, 1908 - 1973

Medium: chrome steel and acrylic
Dimensions: H x W: 6 1/4 x 1/2 in. (15.9 x 1.3 cm)

Type: fountain pens

Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1965

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Law; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); Race discrimination; Race relations; Segregation; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.45.1a-d

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera
Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Organizing Manual No. 2

Created by: Rustin, Bayard, American, 1912 - 1987; Robinson, Cleveland, Jamaican, 1914 - 1995

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. (21 x 12.4 cm)

Type: pamphlets

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Date: 1963

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Local and regional; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.45.3

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

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"Liberator" broadside advertising a bus trip to the 1963 March on Washington

Created by: Liberator Magazine, 1961-1971, American, 1961 - 1971

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)

Type: broadsides

Place depicted: New York City, New York County, New York, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Date: 1963

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Local and regional; Transportation; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.45.5

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials; Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Collage of photographs of the Alpha Phi Alpha "Sphinx Club" fraternity

Created by: Addison Scurlock, American, 1883 - 1964
Subject of: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1906; Howard University, American, founded 1867; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/4 x 10 in. (21 x 25.4 cm)

Type: black-and-white photographs; portraits

Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1923

Topic: African American; Education; Fraternities; Local and regional; Men; Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.54.7

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography; Memorabilia and Ephemera

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Post Mortem 1929

Published by: Howard University College of Medicine, American, founded 1868
Subject of: Howard University, American, founded 1867

Medium: cardboard , ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 3/4 x 8 x 1/2 in. (27.3 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm)

Type: yearbooks

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1929

Topic: African American; Education; Local and regional; Medicine

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2010.54.8

Rights: public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Republican Notification Committee, Washington, D.C., Monday, June 20th, 1892

Photograph by: Prince, Fotografer, American, 1847 - 1929
Subject of: President McKinley, William, American, 1843 - 1901; President Harrison, Benjamin, American, 1833 - 1901; Harris, Charles Oscar, American, 1852 - 1913; Douglass, Frederick, American, 1818 - 1895; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and albumen on photographic paper and cardboard
Dimensions: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm); H x W: 15 x 21 1/2 in. (38.1 x 54.6 cm)

Type: albumen prints; portraits

Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1892

Topic: African American; Local and regional; Photography; Politics (Practical); Race relations; United States--History--1865-1921

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of Charles Oscar Harris

Object number: 2010.56

Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Program from the 1957 National Council of Negro Women annual convention

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: Albrier, Frances M., American, 1898 - 1987; San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945; National Council of Negro Women, founded 1935; Bethune, Mary McLeod, American, 1875 - 1955

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W (Open): 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)

Type: programs

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: November 1957

Caption: This document is part of a scrapbook that was compiled in 1956 and 1957 by Frances Albrier during her term as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The scrapbook highlights the Chapter’s efforts to register voters and educate Bay Area residents on the importance of voting as a part of the Citizenship Education Project which was jointly sponsored by the NCNW and the National Urban League.

Topic: African American; Education; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); Social reform; Suffrage; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection

Object number: 2010.60.1.53

Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials

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Ticket stub for Washington, DC to Montgomery, AL for Selma-Montgomery March

Issued by: Southern Railway Company, American, 1894 - 1990
Used by: Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer, American, born 1941

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (4.4 x 4.4 cm)

Type: ticket stubs

Place depicted: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 1965

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Local and regional; Transportation; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Trumpauer-Mulholland Collection

Object number: 2010.71.14

Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera
Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Acting As If

Created by: Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Child or Children

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 7/16 x 11 15/16 in. (24 x 30.3 cm); H x W (Sheet): 10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in. (27.6 x 35.4 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1940s

Caption: Acting As If - Washington, District of Columbia, 1940's; Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 22.

Topic: African American; Children; Local and regional; Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family

Object number: 2010.74.24

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Like Joe Lewis

Created by: Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 10 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (26.7 x 34 cm); H x W (Sheet): 11 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (29.9 x 35.3 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1930s

Caption: Like Joe Lewis - In the shadow of the capitol, Washington, District of Columbia, 1930's; Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 93.