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Poster for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Distributed by: Lowndes County Freedom Organization, American, founded 1965
Designed by: Unidentified
Printed by: Unidentified

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 16 15/16 × 11 in. (43 × 28 cm)

Type: posters

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

Date: 1966

Description: A poster used by the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. The black-and-white poster has a centrally depicted graphic of a crouching, snarling black panther. Printed above and below the graphic is black, block text that reads, [MOVE ON OVER / OR / WE’LL MOVE / ON OVER YOU]. There is an inscription in pencil on the back of the poster.

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Black power; Civil rights; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); Race discrimination; Race relations; United States--History--1961-1969

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

Object number: 2016.90.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Poster advertising a concert for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on October 6, 1958

Created by: Montgomery Improvement Association, American, founded 1955
Printed by: Unidentified
Subject of: King, Coretta Scott, American, 1927 - 2006; Dr. Simpson, Ralph Ricardo, American, born 1933; Holt Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1909

Medium: ink on paper with pressure-sensitive tape
Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 11 in. (35.5 × 27.9 cm)

Type: posters

Place used: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: October 6, 1958

Description: A poster advertising a concert for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on October 6, 1958. A black-and-white image of Scott King is featured near the top edge of the poster. She is depicted in bust pose, in three-quarters profile looking towards the left edge of the image. She is wearing sleeveless dark dress with a light colored, ruffled neckline. Above the image is black text that reads, [APPEARING IN CONCERT]. Below the image is more black text that reads, [MRS. CORETTA SCOTT KING / National Famous Soprano / MR. RALPH SIMPSON, Accompanist / Monday, October 6, 1958 – 800 p.m. / Holt Street Baptist Church / Sponsored by The / MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION / Gen. Adm. $1.00]. There are inscriptions in pencil and black ink on the back of the poster as well as a purple sticky note secured with clear tape.

Topic: African American; American South; Civil rights; Classical (Music); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Singers (Musicians)

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

Object number: 2016.90.5.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Program from a Mrs. Coretta Scott King recital on September 30, 1956

Created by: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877
Subject of: King, Coretta Scott, American, 1927 - 2006; Scott, Minnie Kimbrough, American, died 2012; Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: ink on paper with metal and graphite
Dimensions: H x W: 9 × 6 × 1/16 in. (22.9 × 15.3 × 0.1 cm)

Type: souvenir programs

Place used: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 30, 1956

Description: A program for a recital for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on September 30, 1956. A black-and-white image of Scott King is centrally featured. She is depicted in bust pose, in three-quarters profile looking towards the left edge of the image. She is wearing sleeveless dark dress with a light colored, ruffled neckline. Above the image is black text that reads, [THE USHER BOARDS / AND THE / YOUNG MATRONS COUNCIL / OF / DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH / PRESENT]. Below the image is additional black text that reads [CORETTA SCOTT KING / SOPRANO / In Recital / MINNIE KIMBROUGH SCOTT / ACCOMPANIST / MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA / Sunday, September 30, 1956 – 5:30 P.M. / Rev. M. L. King, Jr. ………………….Pastor / Mr. L. W. Smiley ………………….Chairman / Mrs. Norman Walton ………………….Co-Chairman / Mr. R. D. Nesbitt ………………….Advisor]. The program has eight (8) interior pages, a front cover, a back cover, and handwritten notes on some of the interior pages. There is a purple sticky note affixed to the back of the booklet.

Topic: African American; American South; Amusements; Classical (Music); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Religion; Singers (Musicians)

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

Object number: 2016.90.5.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

P. H. Polk photog. at Tuskegee Institute

Photograph by: Barboza, Anthony, American, born 1944
Subject of: Polk, P. H., American, 1898 - 1984

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm); H x W (image): 9 15/16 × 6 11/16 in. (25.2 × 17 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: 1970s

Description: A black and white photographic portrait of P. H. Polk at Tuskegee Institute. Polk stands with his right shoulder leaning against a white wall, with his face and shoulders facing towards the camera. His right hand rest above his right hip. He wears glasses and a buttoned cardigan sweater with broad dark and light-colored stripes. The print is signed by the artist on the front bottom right corner. In the opposite corner is the title [P.H. Polk photo at Tuskegee Institute]. Polk was the head of the photography department at the Tuskegee Institute from 1938 until he retired in 1984.

Topic: African American; Education; Photography

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

Object number: 2016.99.24

Restrictions & Rights: © Anthony Barboza

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Untitled (boy at blackboard)

Photograph by: Davidson, Bruce, American, born 1933
Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (image): 8 11/16 × 13 in. (22 × 33 cm); H x W (sheet): 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.7 × 35.4 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place captured: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1965; printed ca. 2010

Description: A black and white photograph of a boy writing on a blackboard in a school classroom. The blackboard is on the wall on the left side of the image and the boy writes on bottom of the board with white chalk held high with his right hand. His left arm is bent and held to his side. He wears a light colored shirt and dark colored pants. The classroom is constructed of wooden planks and in the center of the image, a door is set crooked into the wall and labeled with a sign that reads [DOOR]. To the left of the door is a white rectangular board reading [BULLETIN] and a round clock without hands. A large desk sits in the middle of the floor with a ladder back chair set apart from it. A border depicting the letters of the alphabet, both upper case and lower case, wraps around the top of the walls, from above the blackboard on the left to the door at center. Just to the right of the door, another blackboard is partially visible, with [Alice] written at the top. On the back is an inscription with the photographer's name and several numerical notations.

Topic: African American; American South; Children; Education; Photography

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

Object number: 2017.26.1

Restrictions & Rights: © Bruce Davidson/ Magnum Photos. Permission required for use.

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Portfolio/Series: Time of Change
Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Eddie Mitchell, unemployed youth, Birmingham, Alabama

Photograph by: Rothstein, Arthur, American, 1915 - 1985
Subject of: Mitchell, Eddie, American, born ca. 1921

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (image): 13 3/8 × 10 1/2 in. (34 × 26.6 cm); H x W (sheet): 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.3 × 27.9 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1940

Description: Photograph of young man adjusting his vertical-striped necktie with his left hand, leaning his right shoulder against a wooden post. He wears a white button down shirt and raises his chin as he adjusts his tie.

Topic: African American; American South; Clothing and dress; Labor; Photography; Youth

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg

Object number: 2017.44

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Poll Tax Payment Certificate from the state of Alabama

Issued by: United States Civil Service Commission, American, 1871 - 1979
Received by: Irby, Alice, American, 1928 - 2013

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 6 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (16.5 × 23 cm)

Type: certificates

Place depicted: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: January 29, 1966

Caption: Along with literacy tests, property or residency requirements, poll taxes were one of the methods used to prevent African Americans from voting beginning in the last quarter of the 19th century. After the Fifteenth Amendment enabled the right to vote to African Americans a number of states enacted poll tax laws as a legal method to restrict voting rights. The poll tax was especially effective in disenfranchising potential black voters since African Americans made up a disproportionate number of the poor who could not afford to pay.
Description: A poll tax certificate issued to Alice Irby of Selma, Alabama by the United States Civil Service Commission, Voting Rights Act of 1965. The page is white paper with black printed ink text and fields. The fields have been filled in by hand in blue ink. The top of the certificate reads: [United States Civil Service Commission / Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Poll Tax Payment Certificate / State of Alabama]. The certificate recognizes that Irby paid the three dollar poll tax in order to vote and is signed by John H. Craig, Examiner, U.S. Civil Service Commission on January 29, 1966. The back of the certificate is blank.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Politics (Practical); Race discrimination; Suffrage; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Family of Alice Irby

Object number: 2017.65

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Business and Legal Documents

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Stained-glass window given by the people of Wales adorns the balcony of the historical Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (site of a fatal1963 bombing), Birmingham, Alabama, 1996

Photograph by: Johnson, Jason Miccolo, American
Designed by: Petts, John, British, 1914 - 1991
Subject of: 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (50.5 x 40.3 cm); H x W (image): 16 3/8 x 12 in. (41.6 x 30.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place captured: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1996; printed 2012

Description: A black-and-white photograph of a stained glass window. The window depicts a crucified Christ. Text at the bottom of the window says “You To Do It To Me” and “GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE OF WALES UK – MCAMLXIV.” No inscriptions on the front or back.

Topic: African American; Art; Civil rights; Hate crimes; International affairs; Photography; Religious groups; United States--History--1961-1969

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

Object number: 2012.141.43

Restrictions & Rights: © Jason Miccolo Johnson

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Billy Taylor, 1993

Photograph by: Spitzer, David D., American
Subject of: Billy Taylor, American, 1921 - 2010

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (23.5 x 35 cm); H x W (Sheet): 10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in. (27.5 x 35 cm); H x W (Matted): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place captured: Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1993

Description: A black-and-white photograph of of jazz pianist Billy Taylor performing in Florence, AL. Taylor is photographed from a low angle and just behind his right shoulder. His hands are raised to the piano keys and he is wearing a dark suit jacket and glasses.

Topic: African American; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Jazz (Music); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of David D. Spitzer

Object number: 2012.164.165

Restrictions & Rights: © David D. Spitzer

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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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

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Walking

Created by: Alston, Charles Henry, American, 1907 - 1977

Medium: oil paint and gesso on canvas
Dimensions: H x W: 48 3/8 x 64 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (122.9 x 164.5 x 3.2 cm)

Type: oil paintings

Place depicted: Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1958

Caption: Walking recalls the bus boycotts in the 1950s and anticipated the civil rights marches of the 1960s. The work not only depicts the spirit and conviction of the civil rights protests, it also references the significant role of women and youth in the movement.
Description: This colorful, modernist painting depicts women and a young girl walking in front of a long line of others. The figures move out of a shadowy background on the left, towards the light, emanating from the upper right corner. The line appears to be moving forwards, out of the picture plane. The women leading the line step forward strongly to the viewer's right; their leg movements are delineated by the columns of strongly contrasting light and shadow of their long skirts. The leading woman's face is upturned towards the light. Next to and slightly behind her a second female figure, with forward facing gaze, has her right arm around a much smaller female figure. This child figure moves with the line but turns her head to face the viewer, hands folded at the waist. Directly behind them is another female figure carrying a swathed infant. There are several isolated individuals outside the orderly grouping of the line. The line is the focus of their gaze; the nearest individual turns her back on the viewer as she focuses on the line.

Topic: African American; Activism; Art; Children; Civil rights; Resistance; United States--History--1953-1961; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sydney Smith Gordon

Object number: 2007.2

Restrictions & Rights: © Charles Alston Estate

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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

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Dress sewn by Rosa Parks

Created by: Rosa Parks, American, 1913 - 2005
Subject of: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007

Medium: synthetic fiber and metal
Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 1/2 × 16 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (120.7 × 42.5 × 3.2 cm); Chest: 40 in. (101.6 cm); Waist: 28 1/4 in. (71.8 cm); Hem circumference: 78 in. (198.1 cm); Belt: 2 3/4 × 33 1/4 × 3/8 in. (7 × 84.5 × 1 cm)

Type: dresses

Place made: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1955 - 1956

Description: This dress (a) is a wrap style made from a plain weave viscose fabric with a printed design of dark brown and yellow flowers and leaves. The wrap effect is achieved by crossing the front bodice at the waist seam and gathered fabric on the proper left side of the waist. The skirt is flaired with six (6) gores and three pleats in the skirt at the center front add further to the wrap effect. The set-in full length sleeves are gathered at a 1 1/4" cuff that closes with two metal snaps. The dress has a small shawl collar and a v-neck. The dress closes at the proper left side waist with a zipper. It is unlined, and the seams are pressed open with raw edges exposed. It is machine-sewn except for the hem, which is turned up 2 inches and hand stitched. There are two belt loops made of a thin yellow braid, one at each side seam, which hold the accompanying belt (b) in place.; The belt (b) is made from the same fashion fabric as the dress, with a plain weave beige fabric backing. The front and back of the belt are machine stitched around the edge, and a layer of interfacing beteen them provides some stiffening. The belt has an oval-shaped metal single-prong buckle covered in the dark brown and yellow floral fabric, and five (5) white grommets on the opposite end of the belt for an adjustable closure.

Topic: African American; American South; Civil rights; Clothing and dress; Resistance; Segregation; United States--History--1953-1961; Urban life; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane

Object number: 2007.3.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Collection title: Black Fashion Museum Collection
Classification: Clothing-Historical
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

The Boss

Created by: Polk, P. H., American, 1898 - 1984
Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: 1932

Description: Silver gelatin photograh featuring an image of African American woman wearing headscarf with her hands placed on her hips.

Topic: African American; Agriculture; Photography; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Delano A. Willis

Object number: 2009.30.1

Restrictions & Rights: © Tuskegee University Archives

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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George Washington Carver in Laboratory

Created by: Polk, P. H., American, 1898 - 1984
Subject of: Carver, George Washington, American, 1860s - 1943

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in. (24 × 18.7 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: ca. 1930

Description: Silver gelatin photograh featuring an image of George Washington Carver shown in a laboratory wearing an apron and holding a beaker in his left hand.

Topic: African American; Education; Photography; Science

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Delano A. Willis

Object number: 2009.30.2

Restrictions & Rights: © Tuskegee University Archives

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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W.E.B. Du Bois

Created by: Battey, C. M., American, 1873 - 1927
Subject of: W.E.B. Du Bois, American, 1868 - 1963

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 13 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (34.6 × 26.2 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: 1918

Description: A black-and-white, bust-length portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois has a mustache and wears a bow tie.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Photography; Social reform

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

Object number: 2009.37.3

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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The Sharecropper

Created by: Battey, C. M., American, 1873 - 1927

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 7 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. (20 x 17.1 cm); Sheet size: 17 x 13 15/16 in. (43.2 x 35.4 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: 1920

Description: A black-and-white image of an elderly man seated with a blanket draped over his legs. He is looking at his hands, which are holding something in front of him. the photographer's mark is in the lower right corner of the image: [C.M. BATTEY / TUSKEGEE INST., ALA. / COPYRIGHTED].

Topic: African American; Agriculture; Domestic life; Labor; Photography

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

Object number: 2009.37.4

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Some Glimpses of Alabama State

Created by: Alabama State University, American, founded 1867

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)

Type: yearbooks

Place made: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: August 1937

Description: The yearbook for Alabama State's class of 1937. The yearbook consists of black ink on white paper, and is filled with black-and-white photographs. The yearbook has fifteen pages.
Transcription Center Status: Transcribed by digital volunteers

Topic: African American; Education

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

Object number: 2010.54.6

Restrictions & Rights: public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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The Negro Worker Vol. 4 No. 2

Published by: The Negro Worker, 1928 - 1937
Edited by: Woodson, Charles
Subject of: Communist International

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 7 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (20 x 14.5 cm)

Type: pamphlets

Place depicted: South Africa, Africa; Liberia, West Africa, Africa; Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1934

Description: A pamphlet with black print on green paper. On the center of the front cover there is a black and white photograph of workers in a confrontation with a police officer with following caption, "Negro workers in struggle with police in U.S.A." The interior consists of thirty-two pages of text and photographs. The back cover features a drawing of a man breaking a chain over a globe.

Topic: African American; International affairs; Labor; Mass media; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1933-1945

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg

Object number: 2010.55.35

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Negro Worker Vol. 2 No. 4

Published by: The Negro Worker, 1928 - 1937
Edited by: Padmore, George, Trinidadian, 1903 - 1959
Subject of: Communist International

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 8 5/8 x 6 in. (21.9 x 15.2 cm)

Type: pamphlets

Place depicted: China, Asia; South Africa, Africa; Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1932

Description: A pamphlet of black print on yellowed paper. The front cover lists publication information and a list of the articles. The interior consists of thirty-two pages of text and photographs. The back of the pamphlet has an article titled [Solidarity Between Black and White Workers] and a photograph.

Topic: African American; International affairs; Justice; Labor; Mass media; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1919-1933; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg

Object number: 2010.55.37

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Untitled

Created by: Dial, Thornton Sr., American, 1928 - 2016

Medium: cloth, rope, carpeting and paint on plywood
Dimensions: 45 x 45 x 1 1/2 in. (114.3 x 114.3 x 3.8 cm)

Type: assemblages (sculpture)

Place made: Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1990-1999

Description: This assemblage depicts a striped animal with a long tail. The creature's two front legs are splayed apart, with one stretched out in front and one extended underneath the stomach. The animal's tail is upraised as well as its head, on an elongated neck. Although the animal is viewed from the side, both eyes are on the same visual plane and are visible to the viewer. The animal is barely contained by the square plywood backing; the movement of the limbs is constrained by the borders of the work. The animal is covered in black and white stripes and is outlined in brown. Surrounding the animal is a field of shadowy greens, blacks and browns.

Topic: African American; Art; Race discrimination; Race relations

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Calynne and Lou Hill

Object number: 2010.64.1

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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

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Poster for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization

Poster advertising a concert for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on October 6, 1958

Program from a Mrs. Coretta Scott King recital on September 30, 1956

P. H. Polk photog. at Tuskegee Institute

Untitled (boy at blackboard)

Eddie Mitchell, unemployed youth, Birmingham, Alabama

Poll Tax Payment Certificate from the state of Alabama

Stained-glass window given by the people of Wales adorns the balcony of the historical Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (site of a fatal1963 bombing), Birmingham, Alabama, 1996

Billy Taylor, 1993

Documents from an architecture workshop at Tuskegee University

Walking

Dress sewn by Rosa Parks

The Boss

George Washington Carver in Laboratory

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Sharecropper

Some Glimpses of Alabama State

The Negro Worker Vol. 4 No. 2

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