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Red, yellow, blue, and white Madras headdress

Created by: DODY, Guadeloupean, founded 1973

Medium: cotton, paper, and adhesive
Dimensions: H x W x D: 9 1/2 × 10 × 10 1/2 in. (24.1 × 25.4 × 26.7 cm)

Type: headdresses

Place made: Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 2015

Description: A plaid headdress formed into a traditional Guadeloupian style. The red, blue, yellow, and white woven Madras style plaid cotton is formed and heat-set into a fixed structure with a portion rolled and gathered to fit over the crown of the head like a cap, and a decorative accordion-pleated fan reaching from ear to ear over the top of the head. The cap has a layer of medium-weight paper between the facing and lining Madras fabric to provide extra support. The raw edges of the fabric are hot-glued on the interior of the cap. A knot at the center back cap portion is also hot-glued, as is the back edge of the knot at the base of the fan. A manufacturer's tag reading "DODY" in white on a plaid ground is attached with a plastic tag to the proper left side of the fan near the cap.

Topic: African American; African diaspora; Clothing and dress; Fashion; Women

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

Object number: 2015.153

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Clothing-Fashion
Exhibition: Cultural Expressions
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050

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Pair of tété négresse style gold earrings with yellow stones

Created by: Louis Fritz, Guadeloupean, founded 1982

Medium: metal
Dimensions: H x W x D (each): 1 3/8 × 1 × 7/8 in. (3.5 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm)

Type: earrings

Place made: Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1990s

Description: A pair of tété négresse style gold-colored earrings with fish hook clasps. Each earring is formed with four (4) consecutive circular layers that form a convex shape with the innermost layer being the pinnacle. This center layer is made from a single gold-colored metal bead that has a raised center nipple surrounded by a rounded cone with engraved stripes. The center bead is soldered to a second layer of five (5) gold-colored metal flower beads that have hollow centers with a single stamen protruding from the center. The layer is in turn soldered to the third layer, comprised of nine (9) of these same flower beads. The third layer is soldered to the fourth and outermost layer made from a ring of gold-colored metal resembling a ball chain, but with the back of this piece being flat. There is one rounded ball section protruding from the outermost layer with the looped portion of the clasp extending from it and attaching to a hook at the bottom center back.

Topic: African American; African diaspora; Beauty culture; Clothing and dress; Design; Fashion; Ornamentation

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

Object number: 2015.32ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Adornment
Exhibition: Cultural Expressions
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Cab Calloway in Haiti home movie

16mm motion picture film of Cab Calloway in Haiti home movie

Created by: Calloway, Cab, American, 1907 - 1994
Subject of: Presidential Palace; Holy Trinity Cathedral

Medium: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;; Film Reel (b): metal;; Film Box (c): cardboard
Dimensions: Duration: 3 Minutes; Length (Film): 122 Feet

Type: home movies

Place filmed: Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1951

Caption: 16mm silent color film shot by Cab Calloway during his 1951 tour in Haiti. This film features footage of Cab Calloway and his band performing on an outdoor stage, the local townspeople, a local Haitian pottery market, and the Presidential Palace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.
Description: This 16mm, silent, color, film was shot by Cab Calloway while on a music tour in Haiti in 1951. The footage features Cab Calloway performing and touring the local markets.; Consists of: 16mm Film (a), Original 100 foot Film Reel (b), and Original 100 foot Film Box.; 2013.237.20.1a: 16mm film. The film begins with footage of Cab Calloway and his band onstage playing. The band consists of a piano player, a brass section, a bass player, and a drummer in addition to Calloway. They appear to be ending a performance. The next scene shows the same stage, but a different band is playing. This band has a percussion section with maracas, a drum and two other percussion instruments. There is also a guitar player. The next scene is underexposed, making it difficult to make out what is being filmed. The next scene shows three people in front of a stage with a colorful background. The woman in the middle appears to be Nuffie Calloway, Cab Calloway's wife. The camera then pans a seating area and some men setting up tables. The next scene is shot from a mountain overlooking a city, probably Port-au-Prince. There is footage of four children and a man in front of a building, and footage of a marketplace with people selling objects carved from wood. The next scene shows a bust of Toussaint L'Ouverture on a column with another statute below the bust reaching up to it. The next scene shows the exterior of the Presidential Palace in Post-au-Prince as well as a busy street scene. The film concludes with footage of the exterior of Holy Trinity Cathedral, and the sign with the name of the church and schedule of services in English and French.; 2013.237.20.1b: Original 100 foot film reel.; 2013.237.20.1c: Original 100 foot cardboard film box. The cardboard box has a handwritten address and a postal stamp on the back.

Topic: African American; Actors; Singers (Musicians); Travel

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam

Object number: 2013.237.20.1abc

Restrictions & Rights: © Cabella Calloway Langsam

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Collection title: The Cabell “Cab” Calloway III Collection
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Ramparts, Volume 9, Number 4

Published by: Keating, Edward M., American, 1925 - 2003
Subject of: Ramparts, American, 1962 - 1975; Luciano, Felipe, American, born 1948

Medium: ink on paper with metal
Dimensions: H x W x D: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 × 1/8 in. (27.8 × 21.4 × 0.3 cm)

Type: magazines (periodicals)

Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: October 1970

Description: A copy of Ramparts magazine, volume 9, number 4 from October 1970. The front cover of the magazine features a full page, color image of Felipe Luciano. He is featured looking to the left, wearing a beret with a button promoting the Young Lords Party. In the upper right corner of the image there is white text that reads: ["The Young Lords, / once a street gang, / have become the most / potent revolutionary / organization of / Puerto Rico youth / in the U.S."] Above the image is the mast head of the publication with text in blue, black, and red that reads: [October 1970 / How Harvard, Berkeley et al Set Up the Indonesian Massacre / Civil War in Ireland?; Middle Earth Art; $4 Woodstock.75¢ / Ramparts]. The interior of the magazine has black type on white paper and contains sixty-four pages.

Topic: African American; Activism; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1969-2001

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.9

Restrictions & Rights: © 1970 Ramparts Magazine, Inc. Permission required for use.

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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

Boat seat with spider web design from Ecuador

Created by: Unidentified
Used by: Nazareno, Débora, Ecuadorian
Owned by: Juan García Salazar, Ecuadorian, 1944 - 2017

Medium: wood
Dimensions: H x W x D: 5 1/2 x 12 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (14 x 32.7 x 37.5 cm)

Type: seating

Place made: Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Latin America, South America

Date: early 20th century

Description: A carved wooden boat seat with two legs and a concave center. The seat has a design etched into its surface of a spider web. A spider is at the center of the web.

Topic: African American; African diaspora; Art; Craftsmanship; Folklife; Ornamentation; Transportation

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Juan Garcia Salazar

Object number: 2008.18

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
Exhibition: Cultural Expressions
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050

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John Carlos, Ph. D. Oral History Interview

Subject of: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Carlos, John Wesley Ph. D., American, born 1945
Interviewed by: Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
Subject of: Garvey, Marcus, Jamaican, 1887 - 1940; X, Malcolm, American, 1925 - 1965; Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968; East Texas State University, American, founded 1889; Smith, Tommie, American, born 1944
Created by: Olympic Project for Human Rights, American, 1967 - 1968

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:06:42

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

Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America; Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: August 18, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.103.1a, 2011.174.103.1b, 2011.174.103.1c, 2011.174.103.1d, 2011.174.103.1e, 2011.174.103.1f, 2011.174.103.1g, 2011.174.103.1h, 2011.174.103.1i.; John Carlos, Ph. D. discusses his childhood in Harlem, New York, the changes that he saw in Harlem with the widespread use of heroin and the splintering of families, and describes the disparities in education for black children when he was growing up. He remembers the influence of black leaders including Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carlos was recruited to run track at East Texas State University, where he experienced racial discrimination and was treated poorly by his coach. He explains his protest at the 1968 Olympics, including the symbols that he and Tommie Smith employed to protest racial discrimination, and he describes the emotional impact that the protest had on him.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0103

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Athletes; Children; Civil rights; Education; Families; Olympics; Race discrimination; Race relations; Social reform; Track and field; 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: 2011.174.103.1a-i

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

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El Young Lord, Volume 1, Number 5

Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
Subject of: Campos, Pedro Albizu, Puerto Rican, 1891 - 1965; Zapata, Emiliano, Mexican, 1879 - 1919; Jimenez, Jose Cha Cha; Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Puerto Rican, founded 1922

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 18 × 11 9/16 in. (45.7 × 29.4 cm)

Type: newspapers

Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
Place made: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America

Date: July 2, 1971

Description: El Young Lord newspaper, volume 1, number 5 from July 2, 1971. The front cover of the newspaper has a dark plum colored, central rectangle covering the whole of the page. In the lower two-thirds of the cover is a drawn graphic of a profile portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos. The profile is stylized with dark areas and negative spaces creating the contours of the face. In the lower right corner is the artist's signature [ANTHONY]. Above the image in the upper left is black text in Spanish that reads: ["PARA QUITARNOS LA PATRIA / PRIMERO TIENEN QUE QUITARNOS / LA VIDA" / PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS / 1890-1965]. At the top is the mast head in black with white text that reads: [EL YOUNG LORD / LATIN LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE / OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE YOUNG LORDS / PUBLISHED WEEKLY / VOLUME 1 NUMBER 5 / 25 CENTS / MINISTRY OF INFORMATION / BOX 5024 / MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 53204]. On either side of the mast head are black, graphic depictions of two men, the man on the left is Albizu Campos and the man on the right is Emiliano Zapata]. In the upper right quadrant above the central portrait and below the mast head is a black and white image of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez. The paper consists of fifteen pages in both English and Spanish.

Topic: African American; Activism; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1969-2001

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.11

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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

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Palante, Volume 2, Number 16

Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972; Roldán, Julio, American, died 1970; Davila, Anibal, 1925 - 1970; Moore, Raymond Lavon, American, 1945 - 1970

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (43.8 × 29.2 cm)

Type: newspapers

Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: December 11, 1970

Description: A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 2, number 16 with an orange, black, and white illustration on the front cover. The illustration depicts a police officer with the head of a pig, standing behind three graves. The graves have headstones with names listed from left to right [ANNiBAL / DAViLA/R. LAVON/MOORE / JULiO / ROLDAN]. In front of the graves is an open fourth grave in the lower right corner. The headstone for the fourth grave features large question mark. In the background is an exterior wall with a window behind the proper right shoulder of the police man. A man is seen with an arm raised outside the barred window, yelling. In the upper right quadrant is a pair of doors. At the top of front is the masthead, outlined in black, black type reads: [PALANTE / 25 / cents / LATIN REVOLUTIONARY NEWS SERVICE / YOUNG LORDS PARTY]. The masthead features a silhouette of the logo of the Young Lords Party on the right side. The logo includes the text: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP].The bottom of the front is a rectangle listing the volume and number, featured article titles, and date. The paper consists of twenty-three pages in both English and Spanish.

Topic: African American; Activism; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); Prisons; Resistance; United States--History--1969-2001; Violence

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.14

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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

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Palante, Volume 3, Number 8

Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972; Feliciano, Carlos, Puerto Rican; Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Man or Men; Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Puerto Rican, founded 1922

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (43.5 × 29.2 cm)

Type: newspapers

Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: ca. 1970

Description: A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 3, number 8. The front cover has an orange background with a black and white photograph at its center. The photograph features protestors holding a large banner in the background with hand-painted text in black. The text is in Spanish and reads: [LIBeRTAD PaRa / CaRLOS FeLiCiAnO]. In front of the protestors is a Puerto Rican flag. Above and below the image is black, printed type that reads: [FREE / CARLOS FELICIANO / VOTE IN THE STREETS / MAY 16]. At the top of front is the masthead, outlined in black, with black type that reads: [PALANTE / 25 / cents / LATIN REVOLUTIONARY NEWS SERVICE / YOUNG LORDS PARTY]. The masthead features a silhouette of the Young Lords Party logo on the right side. The logo includes type that reads: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP]. The bottom of the front is a rectangle listing the volume and number and featured article titles. The interior consists of twenty-three pages in English and Spanish.

Topic: African American; Activism; Justice; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); Suffrage; United States--History--1969-2001

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.16

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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

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Palante, Volume 3, Number 17

Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 1/8 × 11 9/16 in. (43.5 × 29.4 cm)

Type: newspapers

Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: October 9, 1971

Description: A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 3, number 17. The newspaper is printed in both English and Spanish. One half of the paper reads one way and is all in Spanish, the other reads in the opposite direction and is in all English. One cover side has a photograph of a man in a crowd holding a sign with an image of the Lares flag of 1868 and a man lying on top with arms outstretched, facing upward. Surrounding the image and the central text is a thin, black, patterned border. Central type starts in the upper left and extends to the lower right and reads [THE / STRUGGLE / FOR / THE / LIBERATION OF PUERTO / RICO CONTINUES... / JOIN US ON OCT. 30]. At the top is the masthead, outlined in black, with black type that reads: [PALANTE / 25 / cents / LATIN REVOLUTIONARY NEWS SERVICE / YOUNG LORDS PARTY]. The masthead features a silhouette of the Young Lords Party logo on the right side. The logo includes type that reads: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP]. The bottom of the front is a rectangle listing the volume and number, featured article titles, and date. The interior consists of twenty-three pages.

Topic: African American; Activism; Freedom; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); United States--History--1969-2001

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.17

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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

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Palante, Volume 4, Number 24

Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 16 13/16 × 11 11/16 in. (42.7 × 29.7 cm)

Type: newspapers

Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: November 8, 1972

Description: A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 4, number 24. One half of the paper reads one way and is all in Spanish, the other reads in the opposite direction and is in all English. The middle page, a layout of all different photographs with a Spanish and English caption that reads: [Nixon You Liar, Sign The Ceasefire!]. One of the covers features a photograph of protestors. In the middle of the crowd is a banner with hand-painted text in Spanish. Above the photograph, in the upper half of the page, is large block type that reads: [PEACE IN VIETNAM OR / MORE OF NIXON'S LIES? / (SEE page 2) / At Home / (SEE PAGE 3) / Thousands Marched on Nov. 4]. At the top is the masthead, outlined in black, with black type that reads: [Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization / PALANTE / 25 / cents / (YOUNG LORDS PARTY) / Vol. 4 No. 24 New York Nov. 8 - Nov. 21, 1972 Bi-Monthly]. The masthead features a silhouette of the Young Lords Party logo on the left side. The logo includes type that reads: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP]. The bottom is a rectangle listing the volume and number, featured article titles, publisher information and postage. The interior consists of twenty-three pages.

Topic: African American; Activism; Political organizations; Politics (Practical); Resistance; United States--History--1969-2001; Vietnam War, 1961-1975

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

Object number: 2014.109.7.18

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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

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Suit worn by Tommie Smith for the 1968 US Olympic Opening Ceremony

Manufactured by: Palm Beach, American, founded 1922
Worn by: Smith, Tommie, American, born 1944

Medium: unidentified fiber with polyester, felt, plastic , metal, and thread
Dimensions: H x W (.1 Jacket): 33 1/4 × 19 in. (84.5 × 48.3 cm); H x W (.2 Pants (folded)): 46 × 14 in. (116.8 × 35.6 cm); H x W (.2 Pants (open)): 46 × 16 1/4 in. (116.8 × 41.3 cm)

Type: jackets; pants

Place used: Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968

Description: Jacket and pants from the 1968 Olympics Opening Ceremony.; .1 A red suit jacket with notched lapels. There are two button holes on the front on the proper left side. There are two buttons to the proper left of the button holes. There is are two buttons on each of the sleeves and two pockets with flaps, one on either side of the jacket near the waist.; There is a navy felt patch on the proper left side below the breast pocket. It has designs in several different color threads. On the outer edges of the patch there are two gold olive branches, one on either side. In between the branches, at the bottom of the patch, it reads [U.S.A.]. In the center of the patch there is a shield trimmed in gold thread. The top of the shield is blue and has a white shape inside. Inside the white shape are the five (5) interlocking Olympic rings in blue, gold, black, green, and red. The bottom half of the shield has seven (red) red and six (6) white alternating vertical lines, trimmed in gold. Coming out of the top of the shield are two (2) flag poles, one crossed over the other. The American flag is on the proper right side and is backwards. The Mexican flag is on the proper left side and is facing the proper direction.; The inside of the jacket is lined in red shiny polyester. There is a black manufacturer's label sewn into the proper left side where the pocket it. It reads [TAILORED BY / Palm Beach (R)] in yellow. There is a slit on either side of the jacket at the bottom. There are some loose threads on the inside of the jacket.; .2 A pair of white pants with black vertical pinstripes. The stripes along the waistband are horizontal. There is a metal fastener in the front of the pants along with a button and button hole and a white plastic zipper. There are several belt loops along the waistband. There is a pocket without a flap on either side of the pants. There are some loose threads and runs in the fabric as well as some spots and stains. There is a white tag inside the waistbands of the pants.

Topic: African American; Athletes; Olympics; Track and field

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

Object number: 2016.110.1.1-.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Clothing-Historical

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Track cleats worn by Tommie Smith for the 1968 Olympics

Manufactured by: PUMA, German, founded 1948
Worn by: Smith, Tommie, American, born 1944

Medium: suede, rubber, leather, metal, Velcro (TM), and ink
Dimensions: H x W x D (a: left cleat): 3 1/2 × 4 × 11 in. (8.9 × 10.2 × 27.9 cm); H x W x D (b: right cleat): 3 1/2 × 4 × 11 in. (8.9 × 10.2 × 27.9 cm)

Type: cleats; sports uniforms

Place used: Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968

Description: A pair of Tommie Smith's track cleats.; The main parts of the shoes are made of a red suede. There are off white stripes on both sides of the shoes. The stripes are wider near the fronts of the shoes and get thinner as the move towards the backs of the shoes. There is off white trim around the tops of the shoes. There is an off-white leather section on the fronts of the shoes with four straps attached to a piece of Velcro. There is an off-white shape on the backs of the shoes above the heels.; The top 1/4 of the bottoms of the shoes are off white suede with seven (7) metal spikes. There are some dark areas of discoloration around the spikes. The bottom 3/4 is a yellow textured leather.; There are some loose threads on the straps of the shoes. The soles of the shoes are off white. There are blue numbers stamped along the insides of the shoes. They are a size 10 1/2 and there are several other numbers that follow.

Topic: African American; Athletes; Clothing and dress; Olympics; Track and field

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

Object number: 2016.110.2ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Clothing-Historical

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Travel bag used by Tommie Smith for the 1968 Olympics

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Used by: Smith, Tommie, American, born 1944

Medium: leather, cotton, plastic, metal, and ink
Dimensions: H x W x D: 11 3/4 × 18 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (29.8 × 47 × 19.1 cm)

Type: bags (containers)

Place used: Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968

Description: A 1968 Olympic travel bag.; The navy bag has rounded corners on the top. The front panel of the bag and the back panel of the bag are trimmed in white. There is a metal zipper going along the top center of the bag. The zipper pull reads [TALON] and has vertical grooved lines. On the front of the bag and the back of the bag there are two metal rings. There is a white plastic handle connected to them. There is text screen-printed on both sides of the bag. It reads [USA] in red with a white outline and [OLYMPIC TEAM] in white underneath. Some of the text has scratches and smudges. There are also some spots on other areas of the bag and on the handles.; There is a white faded rectangle on the back of the bag in the top proper right corner. Tommie Smith's autograph appears in black ink. The bottom of the bag has six (6) metal rivets, three along the front and three along the back.

Topic: African American; Athletes; Olympics; Track and field

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

Object number: 2016.110.3

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Tools and Equipment-Sports and Recreational

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Bartering Home Grown Produce

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

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1950s

Caption: Bartering Home Grown Produce - Mexico City Market Place, 1950's; Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 158.
Description: A black-and-white photograph of bartering over produce at an open-air market in Mexico City.

Topic: African American; Photography

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

Object number: 2010.74.123

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture

Written by: Unidentified
Signed by: Louverture, Toussaint, Haitian, 1743 - 1803
Received by: Vincent, Charles Humbert Marie, French, 1753 - 1831

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W x D: 39 x 23 x 2 in. (99.1 x 58.4 x 5.1 cm)

Type: letters (correspondence)

Place made: Cap-Haïtien, Nord, Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
Place used: France, Europe

Date: October 21, 1797

Caption: Toussaint Louverture campaigned tirelessly on behalf of slaves during the Haitian Revolution, and his actions helped push France to abolish slavery in all its colonies in 1794. He wrote this letter in response to a speech in French parliament calling for slavery's restoration on Saint-Domingue. He warned the French that he would fight for Haitian independence if France ever revoked abolition.
Description: A letter signed by Toussaint Louverture to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent from Cap-Français (now Cap-Haïtien), Haiti, on October 21, 1797. The text itself was recorded by a scribe as Louverture's written French was limited, though the content comprises his own thoughts. At the top of the first page is pre-printed letterhead for Toussaint Louverture, Chief General of the Army of Saint-Domingue. The letter is handwritten in black ink on the front and back sides of two (2) sheets of paper. The contents of the letter are in regards to ongoing conflicts in the French colony of Saint Domingue, later the free nation of Haiti, and military leader Louverture's dissatisfaction with a speech given in the French parliament earlier in 1797 in which Viénot de Vaublanc spoke against abolition and people of African descent as uncivilized.

Topic: African American; Antislavery; Correspondence; Freedom; Government; Justice; Military; Resistance

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

Object number: 2009.26.2ab

Restrictions & Rights: public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials; Slavery and Freedom Objects
Exhibition: Slavery and Freedom
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 3, C3 053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Cover letter regarding a runaway enslaved person in Cuba

Written by: Unidentified
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men; Gutiérrez de la Concha, José, Argentine, 1809 - 1895

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: L x W: 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm)

Type: documents

Place used: Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: November 1, 1857

Description: This cover letter discusses a report about an enslaved person in Cuba who has run away. The letter is folded in half vertically. The enslaved person is not named in the document and neither is the writer. Typed text in the top left corner reads [PRESIDENCIA/ DEL/ M. I. Ayuntamiento/ DE/ CIENFUEGOS]. Handwritten text in the top right corner reads [Ayl. 3.700.] The letter reads [Exmo Sor. / tengo el honor de elevar / a las / superiores manos de / V.E. la relacion de los ci= / marrones existentes en esta fecha en el Deposito de esta / villa, con espresion de las / altas y bajas securridas en / todo Octobre; cumplimen / tando lo prevenido por / V.E. en el parrafo 4: de / su superior circular de / 5 de Mayo del corriente / ano. / Dios]. The inside page reads [Que a V.E. m.a. Ciene/ fuegos 1: de Noviembre / de 1857 / Exmo Sor. / Fran Mals / Exmo. Sr. Gobernador Gral de esta Ysla]

Topic: African American; Correspondence; Emancipation; Freedom; Resistance; Slavery

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

Object number: 2010.1.119

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials; Slavery and Freedom Objects

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Resurrection City: Untitled

Photograph of six men advocating for more and better housing

Photograph by: Freedman, Jill, American, born 1939
Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 5/8 × 12 15/16 in. (21.9 × 32.9 cm); H x W (Sheet): 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.7 × 35.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America; Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968; printed September 2017

Description: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of six men standing and looking towards the camera. Several of the men to the left of frame hold a sign that reads [Bridgeton N. J. / Want more better / housing]. The man third from the right wears a striped shirt and two pinback buttons, one with the image of JFK and the other reading [POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN / PUERTORRIQUEÑOS MARCHAN and carries the Puerto Rican flag in his pocket. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].

Topic: African American; Activism; Housing; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); Poverty; United States--History--1961-1969

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

Object number: 2017.81.15

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Portfolio/Series: Resurrection City
Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Resurrection City: Untitled

Photograph by: Freedman, Jill, American, born 1939
Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968; Unidentified Man or Men; Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 12 15/16 × 9 in. (32.8 × 22.9 cm); H x W (Sheet): 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.7 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968; printed September 2017

Description: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man wearing a shirt and tie and smoking a cigarette. The man wears his jacket over his head. A partially obstructed pinback button attached to his shirt or jacket reads [WE MOURN OUR LOSS / 1925 / 1968 / ROBERT F. KENNEDY] with an image of Kennedy appearing at center. The man holds a small flag of Puerto Rico in his right hand. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].

Topic: African American; Activism; Local and regional; Politics (Practical); Poverty; Race relations; United States--History--1961-1969

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

Object number: 2017.81.6

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Portfolio/Series: Resurrection City
Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Black Power

Designed by: Rostgaard, Alfredo, Cuban, 1943 - 2004
Published by: Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), Cuban, founded 1966
Subject of: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Medium: lithographic ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 22 x 13 in. (55.9 x 33 cm)

Type: color lithographs

Place printed: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America

Date: 1968

Description: Large color lithographic poster published by The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, African and Latin America (OSPAAAL) with the message "Retaliation to Crime: Revolutionary Violence" written in English, French, Spanish and Arabic below an illustration of a red-eyed black panther with its teeth bared and the words "Black Power" inside its open jaw.

Topic: African American; African diaspora; Art; Graphic design; International affairs; Justice; Politics (Practical); Race relations; Resistance

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

Object number: 2012.46.17.1

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design; Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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