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Description: American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1842 published by S. W. Benedict. The almanac is printed on off white paper in black ink. Printed below the title is “CALCULATED FOR THE HORIZON AND MERIDIAN OF BOSTON, NEW YORK, / BALTIMORE, AND CHARLESTON: AND FOR USE IN / EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY.” An engraved image is at center. The image portrays a Caucasian woman holding a book up in her left hand. A burst of light is behind her. Men, women and children are around her watching. A ship and a building being constructed are in the background. The interior pages feature astronomical information, calendars and weather forecasts. Printed on the back is an article titled Principles of Christian Fellowship and a short parable titled What has become of that Leather?

Topic: African American; Antislavery; Communication; Literature

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

Object number: 2010.1.12

Restrictions & Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Slavery and Freedom Objects; Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Exhibition: Making a Way Out of No Way
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Song: I Want a Witness

Written by: Harper, Michael S., American, born 1938
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press, American, founded 1936

Medium: cardboard , ink on book paper
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1/2 in. (21 x 14.6 x 1.3 cm)

Type: hardcover books

Date: 1972

Description: A hardcover book with printed paper bookjacket. The top half of the cover has red and black print on a cream-colored background. In the middle-right section of the cover, the face of a black man appears as a red moon against a brown sky. Below, a stand of black trees on a hill appear to be swaying in the wind. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author.

Topic: African American; Literature; Race relations; Religious groups; United States--History

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

Object number: 2010.42.1

Restrictions & Rights: © Michael S. Harper/ University of Pittsburgh Press. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Quicksand

Written by: Larsen, Nella, American, 1891 - 1964
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., American, founded 1915

Medium: cardboard , ink on book paper
Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.3 x 3.5 cm)

Type: hardcover books

Date: 1928

Description: A harcover book with orange cloth cover with black print and bordering. The edges of the book are worn and dirty, as is the binding.

Topic: African American; Identity; Literature; Race relations; Sexuality

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

Object number: 2010.42.2

Restrictions & Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Written by: Lorde, Audre, American, 1934 - 1992
Published by: Crossing Press, American, founded 1963

Medium: ink on book paper
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm)

Type: portraits; paperbacks

Date: 1984

Description: Hardback book with black and bronze-colored print on a blue cover. At bottom left is a black-and-white photograph of Audre Lorde.

Topic: African American; Education; Literature; Social reform; Women

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

Object number: 2010.42.5

Restrictions & Rights: © Audre Lorde 1984. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Native Son

Written by: Wright, Richard, American, 1908 - 1960
Published by: Harper & Brothers, American, 1817 - 1962
Owned by: O'Hara, John, American, 1905 - 1970

Medium: cardboard , ink on book paper
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (21 x 14.6 x 3.8 cm)

Type: hardcover books

Date: 1940

Description: At hardcover book with a dust jacket. The jacket has a green background with black print on it. At center right, a yellow and white text box with black and green print gives the title and author.

Topic: African American; Identity; Law; Literature; Men; Race relations; Resistance; Stereotypes; United States--History--1933-1945

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

Object number: 2010.42.6

Restrictions & Rights: © 1940 Richard Wright (renewed 1968 by Ellen Wright). Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Lyrics of Love and Laughter

Written by: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, American, 1872 - 1906
Published by: Dodd, Mead and Company, American, 1839 - 1990

Medium: cardboard , ink on book paper
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3/4 in. (16.5 x 11.4 x 1.9 cm)

Type: hardcover books

Date: 1903

Description: A hardcover, olive green book with gold print and title decoratively framed.

Topic: African American; Literature; United States--History--1865-1921

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

Object number: 2010.42.7

Restrictions & Rights: © 1903 by Dodd, Mead and Company

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
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

Heavenly Days in Dixie: Or, the Time of Their Lives

Published by: Political Affairs Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1944
Written by: Aptheker, Herbert, 1915 - 2003

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 8 7/16 x 5 1/2 in. (21.5 x 14 cm)

Type: pamphlets

Date: 1974

Description: A 31-page pamphlet printed in black print on off-white paper. Printed below the title, between two decorative black bands with intermittent white stars is the description, "A critical review of The Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. The essay has been reprinted from the June and July 1974 issues of Political Affairs.

Topic: African American; American South; Literature; Politics (Practical); Slavery; United States--History

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: 2010.55.82

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Black Forum, Vol. 1, No. 2

Edited by: Mungin, Horace, American, born 1941

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions: H x W: 7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm)

Type: magazines (periodicals)

Place printed: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1976-1977

Description: Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1976-77, of Black Forum Magazine. The cover has red and black ink on a white glossy paper background, along with monochromatic photographs of G. Falcon Beazer, John Sanders, Mason A. Cox, and Margarite Gaines, on the right. The left column of the cover indicates the content of the magazine: [In This Issue: / G. Falcon Beazer an Interview / Profiles: / John Sanders, Artists / Mason A. Cox, Poet / Margarita Gaines, Dancer / Notes of a Black Revolutionary / Fiction/ Poetry & Reviews]. The magazine has forty-eight ink on paper pages and includes text, photos, poems, and a crossword puzzle.

Topic: African American; Literature; Mass media

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

Object number: 2010.59.10

Restrictions & Rights: © Horace Mungin. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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The American Negro Writer and His Roots: Selected Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers, March, 1959

Published by: American Society of African Culture, American, 1956 - 1969
Owned by: Wright, Sarah Elizabeth, American, 1928 - 2009

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)

Type: paperbacks

Place printed: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1960

Description: This pamphlet contains selected papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers held in March, 1959. It is 72 pages long and its cover is a pinkish-gray with black print.

Topic: African American; Literature

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Family of Sarah Elizabeth Wright

Object number: 2010.61.10

Restrictions & Rights: © Copyright 1960 by American Society of African Culture. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Exhibition: Making a Way Out of No Way
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

This Child's Gonna Live

Written by: Wright, Sarah Elizabeth, American, 1928 - 2009

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. (20 x 13.3 cm)

Type: paperbacks

Place depicted: Eastern Shore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1971

Description: A first edition of the novel, This Child's Gonna Live, by Sarah E. Wright.; The cover features a background image of a sepia toned portrait of Sarah E. Wright with off-white text. The book is 276 pages. The novel is set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the Depression. It tells the story of an impoverished wife of an oysterman and her family.

Topic: African American; Literature; Motherhood; Poverty; United States--History--1933-1945; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Family of Sarah Elizabeth Wright

Object number: 2010.61.14

Restrictions & Rights: © 1969 by Sarah E. Wright

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Exhibition: Making a Way Out of No Way
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Haley, Alex, American, 1921 - 1992; Cardozo Senior High School, American, founded 1928

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 10 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. (27.5 x 35.1 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

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

Date: September 13, 1977

Description: A black-and-white photograph of Alex Haley speaking into a microphone at a podium and holding up a book open to pages of photographs. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped on the back.

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

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

Object number: 2011.15.10

Restrictions & Rights: © Milton Williams

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Williams, Chancellor James, American, 1893 - 1992

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 13 15/16 x 10 5/8 in. (35.4 x 27 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

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

Date: May 17, 1979

Description: A black-and-white photograph of Chancellor Williams wearing a suit and sitting on a folding chair. A curtain with flowers appears behind him. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped and inscribed on the back.

Topic: African American; Education; Literature; Local and regional; Photography; Social reform

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

Object number: 2011.15.11

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Photograph of Andrew Young, Alex Haley, and George Haley

Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Young, Andrew Jackson, American, born 1932; Haley, George W., American, born 1925; Haley, Alex, American, 1921 - 1992

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 8 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (20.6 x 25.1 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Date: ca. 1977

Description: A black-and-white photograph of Andrew Young shaking George Haley’s hand. Alex Haley looks on. Andrew Young also has his left hand rested on Alex Haley's arm. Additional people stand around them. The face of a fourth man is partially visible in the lower right corner. The photograph is stamped on the back.

Topic: African American; Literature; Photography

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

Object number: 2011.15.171

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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The History of the Negro Church

Written by: Woodson, Carter Goodwin, American, 1875 - 1950
Published by: The Associated Publishers, Inc., American, 1921 - 2005

Medium: cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: 8 x 5 1/4 x 3/4 in. (20.3 x 13.3 x 1.9 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1945

Description: A string bound 322 page hardcover book about the development of the Negro Church by C.G. Woodson. The cover is black fabric. The title and author stamped in gold near the top of the cover and on the spine.

Topic: African American; Communities; Literature; Religious groups; United States--History

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

Object number: 2011.158.10

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Of Minnie the Moocher & Me

Written by: Calloway, Cab, American, 1907 - 1994; Rollins, Bryant
Published by: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, American, 1876 - 1978

Medium: cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (23.5 x 15.9 x 2.9 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1976

Description: A hard cover adhesive bound 282 page book (a) written by Cab Calloway and Bryant Rollins about the life and times of Cab Calloway. The paper wrap around jacket (b) is printed with a silver background with a red and white art deco outline frame. At the center is a black and white photograph of Cab Calloway wearing a white tuxedo holding a conductor’s wand and singing. Above the photograph, at the top of the cover is [OF MINNIE / THE / MOOCHER / & ME] and below the photograph [CAB / CALLOWAY] in large bold black letters and [and Bryant Rollins] in small black letters. The verso features a black and white photograph of the two authors working.

Topic: African American; Conductors (Musicians); Jazz (Music); Literature; Singers (Musicians)

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

Object number: 2011.158.2ab

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Praisesong for the Widow

Written by: Marshall, Paule, American, born 1929
Published by: G. P. Putnam's Sons, American, 1838 - 1996

Medium: cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 1 in. (22.2 x 13.3 x 2.5 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1983

Description: A hard cover case bound (adhesive) 256 page book (a), a novel written by Paule Marshall. The paper wrap around jacket (b) is printed with a thin black double line frame. At the top of the cover is [Paule Marshall] in brown, [Author of BROEN GIRL, BROWNSTONES] in black and [Praisesong / for the / Widow] in large bold purple letters. There is an illustration of a bust of a woman in the lower left. The verso features black, brown and purple text.

Topic: African American; Families; Literature; Motherhood

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

Object number: 2011.158.4ab

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius - A Portrait of the Man, a Critical Look at His Work

Written by: Walker, Margaret Abigail, American, 1915 - 1998
Published by: Warner Books, 1970 - 2006
Subject of: Wright, Richard, American, 1908 - 1960

Medium: cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 9/16 in. (23.5 x 15.9 x 4 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1988

Description: A hard cover case (adhesive) bound 428 page book (a) written by Margaret Walker about Richard Wright. The paper wrap around jacket (b) is printed with a black background with a tan-green side right border and spine. At the top center of the lower half is a black and white photograph of Richard Wright from the waist up sitting sideways with a cigarette in one hand and a cup and saucer in front of him. Above the photograph, at the top of the cover is [RICHARD / WRIGHT] in white, [DAEMONIC / GENIOUS / A PORTRAIT OF THE MAN / A CRITICAL LOOK AT HIS WORK] in green, and below the photograph in green [MARGARET / WALKER] and [AUTHOR OF JUBILEE] in white. The verso is black with white text.

Topic: African American; Literature; Race relations

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

Object number: 2011.158.6ab

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

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The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art

Written by: Locke, Alain LeRoy, American, 1885 - 1954
Published by: Associates in Negro Folk Education, American, 1935 - 1942

Medium: cloth on cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: H x W x D (Closed): 12 3/16 × 9 5/16 × 1 in. (31 × 23.7 × 2.5 cm); H x W x D (Open): 12 3/16 × 19 × 1 in. (31 × 48.3 × 2.5 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1940

Description: A hard cover, string bound book. The front cover is green fabric with gold lettering. The lettering forms a half circle pattern and reads: [The Negro In Art]. The title page in black type reads: [The Negro In Art / A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art / Edited and Annotated By / Alain Locke / Author of “Negro Art: Past and Present”]. The page to the left of the title page contains a color depiction of a woman sitting down with her proper right hand resting against her face. A child hugs her waist. The caption underneath the depiction reads: [“Mother And Child. By Sargent Johnson, Albert W Bender Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art]. The interior pages, 224 in total, are white paper with black type.

Topic: African American; Art; Literature

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

Object number: 2011.158.7

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
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

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