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Booker T. Washington, President of the Negro Industrial School, Tuskegee, Alabama

Created by: Strohmeyer & Wyman, American, unknown-1901
Published by: Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s
Subject of: Washington, Booker T., American, 1856 - 1915; Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881

Medium: albumen, sodium chloride and silver nitrate on photographic paper and cardboard
Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/2 x 7 in. (8.9 x 17.8 cm)

Type: stereographs; portraits

Date: 1899

Description: A stereograph produced by Underwood & Underwood, dated 1899, of an outdoor scene titled: "Booker T. Washington, President of the Negro Industrial School, Tuskegee, Alabama"/ Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman", below the image. The stereograph is rectangular in shape with two identical albumen photographs that are square-shaped with a curved top edge attached to a piece of cardboard. Both images feature Booker T. Washington standing in a dirt paved street with his right hand in his vest breast pocket. The left edge of the stereograph contains the following textual information: " Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers/ New York, N.Y." while the right side contains the following textual information: "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers/ New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas".

Topic: African American; American South; Education; Photography; United States--History--1865-1921

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

Object number: 2011.155.205

Restrictions & Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Training aircraft used by Tuskegee Institute

Manufactured by: Boeing Corporation
Used by: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
Subject of: Tuskegee Airmen, 1941 - 1946

Medium: steel, aluminum, copper alloy, wood, polyester, rubber, plastic
Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.82.1): 114 × 386 × 300 in. (289.6 × 980.4 × 762 cm); H x W x D (2011.82.2 baggage claim door): 21 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (54.6 × 78.1 × 7 cm)

Type: training aircraft

Date: ca. 1944

Caption: A vintage, open-cockpit biplane—one used at Alabama’s renowned Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II.
Description: The body of the PT-13D Stearman Kaydet aircraft is painted blue and the wings are painted yellow. The tail is yellow with red and white stripes. The numbers "18303" are white and located on the left and right sides of fuselage. "Spirit of Tuskegee" is printed in red and located on the left and right sides of engine cowl. There are two stars located on either side of the top wing. The stars are white within a black circle. Within the white stars are red circles. Personal signatures of former Tuskegee Airmen are located on the cargo cover.

Topic: African American; Military; Tuskegee Airmen; World War II

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

Object number: 2011.82.1-.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Transportation Vehicles
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

Souvenir Program for the Southern Tennis Association Annual Tournament

Created by: Southern Tennis Association, American, founded 1881
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; American Tennis Association

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm)

Type: programs

Place used: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: August 1933

Description: A souvenir program for an annual tennis tournament sanctioned by the Southern Tennis Association held at the Tuskegee Institute August 2nd through August 5th, 1933.

Topic: African American; Associations and institutions; Tennis

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

Object number: 2012.46.68.28

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Program for a college football game between Wilberforce and Tuskegee, 1944

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908

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

Type: souvenir programs

Place depicted: Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America

Date: October 20, 1944

Description: 1944 college football program for the all-Black teams from Wilberforce and Tuskegee at the University of Detroit Stadium. The program is red and green with a graphic of a football player mid-run with a football in his left hand plowing his way through an oversized football with a stadium full of spectators in the background. There is a two inch tear through the "I" of Wilberforce at the top right side of the program.
Transcription Center Status: Transcribed by digital volunteers

Topic: African American; Athletes; Education; Football

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

Object number: 2012.31.5

Restrictions & Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Exhibition: Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 052

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee Institute

Created by: Johnston, Frances B., American, 1864 - 1952
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Unidentified Woman or Women; Abbott, Lyman, American, 1835 - 1922; Carnegie, Andrew, Scottish-American, 1835 - 1919; Eliot, Charles W., American, 1834 - 1926; Dr. Frissell, Hollis Burke, American, 1852 - 1917; Macy, V. Everit, American, 1871 - 1930; Schieffelin, William Jay, American, 1866 - 1955; Seligman, Isaac N., American, 1855 - 1917; Spence, Clara B., American, 1862 - 1923; Wilcox, William G., American, 1851 - 1917; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (image): 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm); H x W (mount): 8 × 13 in. (20.3 × 33 cm); H x W (mat): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Place captured: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1906

Description: A black-and-white photograph taken at the 25th anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee University. At center of the photograph is a reviewing stand on which supporters of the University, including Trustees, dignitaries, educators, and philanthropists, are gathered to watch the proceedings. The reviewing stand is decorated with American flags and bunting. In the foreground, female Tuskegee students march past the reviewing stand, from proper right to proper left. The women are wearing full-length, long-sleeved dresses and hats. In the background are campus buildings, rolling hills and fences.

Topic: African American; American South; Education; Photography; Reconstruction (United States History, 1865-1877); United States--History--1865-1921; Women

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

Object number: 2016.49.5

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Gwendolyn M. Patton Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Patton, Gwendolyn M., American, born 1943
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:51:26

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: June 1, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.20.1a, 2011.174.20.1b, 2011.174.20.1c, 2011.174.20.1d, 2011.174.20.1e, 2011.174.20.1f, 2011.174.20.1g, and 2011.174.20.1h.; Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes County.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0020

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Medicine; Politics (Practical); Social reform; Suffrage; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Object number: 2011.174.20.1a-h

Restrictions & Rights: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Emmett W. Bassett, Ph. D. and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Bassett, Emmett W. Ph. D., American, 1921 - 2013; Tietjen Bassett, Priscilla, American, born 1928
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Smith College, American, founded 1871; Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Carver, George Washington, American, 1860s - 1943; Till, Emmett, American, 1941 - 1955; Till-Mobley, Mamie, American, 1921 - 2003; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:10:53

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Grahamsville, Sullivan County, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America; Henry County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America; New York, United States, North and Central America; Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America; Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

Date: July 21, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.38.1a, 2011.174.38.1b, 2011.174.38.1c, 2011.174.38.1d, 2011.174.38.1e, 2011.174.38.1f, 2011.174.38.1g, 2011.174.38.1h, 2011.174.38.1i, and 2011.174.38.1j.; Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett, Ph. D. remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending Tuskegee Institute, where he assisted George Washington Carver with research. They tell how they met at a protest of a segregated restaurant in Massachusetts, raising money for Emmett Till's mother, their involvement in many civil rights groups in New York, and attending the March on Washington. They also discuss Dr. Bassett’s career as a professor of dairy science, Mrs. Bassett's career as a librarian, and their struggles as an interracial married couple.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0038

Topic: African American; Activism; Agriculture; American South; Civil rights; Domestic life; Education; Families; Labor; Race relations; Science; Segregation; Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961; World War II

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Object number: 2011.174.38.1a-j

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ruby Nell Sales Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Nell Sales, Ruby, American, born 1948
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Daniels, Jonathan Myrick

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:32:09

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 25, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.7.1a, 2011.174.7.1b, 2011.174.7.1c, 2011.174.7.1d, 2011.174.7.1e, 2011.174.7.1f, 2011.174.7.1g, 2011.174.7.1h, 2011.174.7.1i, and 2011.174.7.1j.; Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. Her father was a Baptist minister and grew up in a racist and segregated society. Her grandmother was either born into slavery or right after it, and learned to read and write. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American history and the current rate of African Americans in prison.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0007

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Justice; Military; Politics (Practical); Prisons; Religion; Segregation; Slavery; Social reform; Suffrage; Tuskegee Airmen; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Object number: 2011.174.7.1a-j

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Documents from an architecture workshop at Tuskegee University

Created by: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
Subject of: National Endowment for the Arts, American, founded 1965; Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Bond, J. Max Jr., American, 1935 - 2009; Dr. Dozier, Richard K., American; Anthony, Carl, American, born 1939; Foy, Isaac; Taylor, Robert Robinson, American, 1868 - 1942; Lankford, John A., American, 1874 - 1946; Box, John Harold, American, 1929 - 2011; Fly, Everett L., American; Dr. Warfield, John, American, died 2007; Dr. Vlach, John Michael; Britt, Stanford
Owned by: Williams, Harold Louis, American, 1924 - 2015

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (28.6 × 21.6 cm)

Type: documents

Place used: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: January 17-18, 1980

Description: Folder with documents from an architecture workshop at Tuskegee University. The cover of the folder has a central image of unidentified students working at drafting tables. There are architectural drawings and building images in the background. Printed black text above the image reads [CENTER FOR AFRO-AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE / Tuskegee, Alabama / Planning Workshop #4 / January 17-18, 1980 / Tuskegee Institute, Alabama]. At the bottom there is text for [Sponsored By: / Department of Architecture, Tuskegee Institute and the National Endowment of the Arts – A Federal Agency.] The back of the folder has an image of uniformed men outside of a columned building identified as [NEGRO BUILDING].; Inside the folder are three (3) packets of paper, each stapled together. The first packet, titled “Final Workshop,” discusses the proposed creation of a National Resource Center on Afro-American Architecture. There is a workshop schedule on the last page. The other two (2) packets discuss workshop abstracts and speakers, the first on “History, Tradition and Directions of African American Architecture” and the second on “Afro-American Environmental Arts: Relationships and Research.” The packets have black printed text on white paper and the reverse of each page is blank.

Topic: African American; Architecture; Education

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Betty Smith Williams in memory of Harold Louis Williams

Object number: TA2017.53.5.1.14.1

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials; Archival Collections

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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