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I have given the world my songs

Created by: Catlett, Elizabeth, American and Mexican, 1915 - 2012
Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions: H x W (image with title): 8 1/8 × 5 1/16 in. (20.6 × 12.8 cm); H x W (image): 7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in. (19 × 12.8 cm); H x W (sheet): 13 1/2 × 9 9/16 in. (34.3 × 24.3 cm)

Type: linocuts

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

Date: 1946-1947; printed 1989

Description: This color linocut depicts a woman playing a guitar. Wearing a knee-length dress, she is seated on a square four legged stool. Her sleeves are rolled up to her elbows and she rests the guitar on her lap. In the background is a small vignette, done in bright blue tones that depict a man in a hood attacking another man. Below them is a large burning cross. There is a handwritten title below the image in pencil. It is signed by the artist on the bottom right. The back is blank.

Topic: African American; Art; Identity; Music; Musicians; Resistance; Violence; Women

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

Object number: 2017.21.5

Restrictions & Rights: © Elizabeth Catlett/Licensed by Visual Artists & Galleries Association, Inc (VAGA), New York, NY. Permission required for use.

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Portfolio/Series: The Black Woman (formerly the Negro Woman)
Classification: Visual Arts

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Flier for the film King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

Distributed by: King, Martin Luther Foundation
Printed by: Unidentified
Subject of: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 17 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (43.8 × 28.6 cm)

Type: fliers (printed matter)

Place collected: Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1970

Description: Martin Luther King Foundation flier for the film “King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis." The front of the flier features a black and white image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “KING” is printed in bold white text in the top, right corner. The back of the flier features six black and white images down the center with text on each side. The pictures depict images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a burning bus, a police officer, a large group of people marching, a burning cross and Klansmen, and people morning at King’s funeral. The text are reviews of the movie from various news outlets, awards the movie has won and suggested uses for the film. The flier is yellowed, creased, and torn in several places.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Mass media; Race relations; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence; White supremacy movements

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Arthur J. "Bud" Schmidt

Object number: 2017.71.3

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Advertisements

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination

Photograph by: Louw, Joseph, South African, 1945 - 2004
Subject of: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968; Young, Andrew Jackson, American, born 1932; Rev. Abernathy, Ralph David, American, 1926 - 1990; McCollough, Marrell, American, born 1944; Rev. Jackson, Jesse, American, born 1941; Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 × 12 1/2 in. (22.7 × 31.6 cm); H x W x D (Frame): 18 11/16 × 22 1/16 × 1 in. (47.5 × 56 × 2.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 4, 1968

Description: A black and white photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. taken on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The walkway outside of room 306, where King was staying, is shown on the right side of the image. Three people are standing and pointing across the street in the direction of the gunshot. Andrew Young is on the left with Jesse Jackson mostly obscured behind him. An unidentified woman is standing to the right in front of Ralph Abernathy, who is partially visible. In front of Young, Martin Luther King Jr. is lying on the ground. Marrell McCollough is kneeling next to King with one hand on the railing. There are people standing in the parking lot below including Memphis police officers. Two cars can be seen parked below the balcony. The reverse of the image is covered in numerous inscriptions from press agencies, in French and English, stamps, and lines.

Topic: African American; Activism; Civil rights; Hate crimes; Photography; Race discrimination; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gifted by Jeffrey Coopersmith

Object number: 2017.73

Restrictions & Rights: © The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Created by: Unidentified
Owned by: Hon. Fox, Charles James, British, 1749 - 1806

Medium: hide and wood
Dimensions: H x W: 29 15/16 in. (76 cm)

Type: whips (slavery artifacts)

Place depicted: Caribbean
Place used: London, England, Europe

Date: late 18th century

Description: Braided hide whip with wooden handle. A small ring of hide has been put through a hole at the end of the handle, presumably for storing the whip by hanging.

Topic: African American; Antislavery; Slavery; Violence

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

Object number: 2010.21.1.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Slavery and Freedom Objects; Tools and Equipment-Occupational

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Created by: Unidentified
Owned by: Hon. Fox, Charles James, British, 1749 - 1806

Medium: leather and hide
Dimensions: H x W: 35 13/16 in. (91 cm)

Type: whips (slavery artifacts)

Place depicted: Caribbean
Place used: London, England, Europe

Date: late 18th century

Description: Braided leather handle with single lash made from animal hide put through a hole on one end with a ring of hide for hanging through the other end.

Topic: African American; Antislavery; Slavery; Violence

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

Object number: 2010.21.1.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Slavery and Freedom Objects; Tools and Equipment-Occupational
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

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Created by: Unidentified
Owned by: Hon. Fox, Charles James, British, 1749 - 1806

Medium: hide and wood
Dimensions: H x W: 40 15/16 in. (104 cm)

Type: whips (slavery artifacts)

Place depicted: Caribbean
Place used: London, England, Europe

Date: late 18th century

Description: Wooden handle with hide lash and hide loop through opposite end for hanging storage

Topic: African American; Antislavery; Slavery; Violence

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

Object number: 2010.21.1.3

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Slavery and Freedom Objects; Tools and Equipment-Occupational
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

Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on printing-out paper mounted on card stock
Dimensions: H x W: 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8.6 x 13.7 cm)

Type: photographic postcards

Place depicted: Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1908

Description: A black-and-white photographic postcard of an elderly man gathering possessions after the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois. The man is depicted in the center of the image, outside of what appears to be a residential structure, amid a scattering of furniture, clothing, and other domestic objects. The man holds a small drawer of possessions in his proper left hand, against his proper left hip. In front of him is what appears to be dresser drawers stacked in the grass and full of tangled pieces of clothing and an upturned chair. Behind him, a small table piled with more random belongings and a chair sit in front of a tree. To the right side of the image, closer to the street, is a larger table with cookware and other items on it. In front of the table, standing in the street, are two white men, both looking towards the camera. The men are dressed in dark pants, jackets, and hats. The scene is in front of a single story dwelling with wooden siding, an open doorway, and two shutter-less windows. Written in white at the bottom of the image is [Old negro saving few articles after mob violence, many were destitute and homeless]. There is a small, round loss in the left side of the photograph, top center.; The postcard is unused and has a divided back with a space marked as [CORRESPONDENCE HERE] and a space marked as [NAME AND ADDRESS HERE]. The postcard is printed on AZO paper, with an AZO stamp mark in the upper right corner of the back. A handwritten inscription in graphite along the top of the back reads [Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence most went destitute and homeless. (SPRINGFIELD RACE RIOT ILL.)].

Topic: African American; Communities; Domestic life; Housing; Photography; Poverty; Race relations; United States--History--1865-1921; Violence

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

Object number: 2010.36.9.1

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873

Medium: metal, brass (alloy)
Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 11/16 × 1 × 7/8 in. (6.8 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm)

Type: shells (ammunition)

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

Date: September 1963

Caption: Just two weeks after the march, on September 15, 1963, white supremacists planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four young girls attending Sunday school. This terrorist act was a brutal reminder that the success of the march and the changes it represented would not go unchallenged. In the face of such violence, the determination to continue organizing intensified. These glass shards are from the church's stained-glass window.
Description: A shotgun shell collected from the gutter outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, at the funeral of the four girls killed in the bombing. The shell has a blue/green-colored body with brass tip.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Hate crimes; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence

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

Object number: 2010.71.1.11

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Tools and Equipment-Weapons and ammunition

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Patience on a Monument

Created by: Nast, Thomas, American, 1840 - 1902

Medium: ink on newsprint
Dimensions: H x W: 18 5/8 x 13 in. (47.3 x 33 cm)

Type: clippings

Place made: Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America

Date: October 8, 1868

Description: A rare broadside supplement to the Cincinnati Gazette, "Patience on a Monument," shows a freed slave sitting atop a monument that lists evils perpetrated against blacks. A dead woman and children lie at the bottom of the monument, while violence and fires rage in the background.

Topic: African American; Emancipation; Race relations; Reconstruction (United States History, 1865-1877); Violence

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

Object number: 2010.77.5

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Visual Arts; Slavery and Freedom Objects

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Letter concerning procurement of whips, personal affects, and bolts of cloth

Written by: Unidentified
Owned by: Rouzee Family, American

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: L x W: 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm)

Type: business letters; financial records

Place depicted: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place made: Essex County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

Date: October 19, 1829

Caption: This document is from a collection of financial papers related to the plantation operations of several generations of the Rouzee Family in Essex County, Virginia. The papers date from the 1790s through 1860.
Description: This handwritten one page, double-sided document is a business letter written to a Mrs. Wintonne. It appears to pertain to the procurement of whips, a bonnet and other personal affects from Baltimore. It appears that the writer was the agent in charge of obtaining these items. In the letter the writer explains that certain things were unable to be purchased, chiefly the bonnet. The letter is signed by the writer, but is illegible. On the back of the letter is a list of names with numbers after them denoting yards of cloth to be purchased for clothing each person.
Transcription Center Status: Transcribed by digital volunteers

Topic: African American; Agriculture; Business; Clothing and dress; Correspondence; Finance; Slavery; Violence

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

Object number: 2011.104.40

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Collection title: Liljenquist Family Collection
Portfolio/Series: Rouzee Family Papers
Classification: Slavery and Freedom Objects; Documents and Published Materials-Business and Legal Documents

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rolling Stone, issue #637

Published by: Rolling Stone, American, founded 1967
Subject of: Ice-T, American, born 1962

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm)

Type: magazines (periodicals)

Date: 1992

Description: Issue #637 of Rolling Stone magazine featuring a photograph of rapper Ice-T wearing a police uniform centered on a plain white background. Ice-T holds a black police baton in his hands and looks straight at the camera. His hat obscures part of the [Rolling Stone] title. to the left is the headline [Ice-T / Talks / Back / (You Got / a Problem / With / That?)].

Topic: African American; Actors; Hip hop (Music); Musicians; Race relations; United States--History--1969-2001; Violence

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

Object number: 2011.133.2

Restrictions & Rights: © Rolling Stones. Permission required for use.

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Disgusting

Created by: Martin, Spider, American, 1939 - 2003
Subject of: Boynton Robinson, Amelia, American, born 1911; Lewis, John, American, born 1940; Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 13 5/8 x 10 9/16 in. (34.6 x 26.8 cm); H x W (Sheet): 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

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

Date: 1965; printed 1995

Description: A black-and-white photograph of Amelia Boynton Robinson, who is weak from being attacked and gassed by Alabama State Troopers.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Photography; Violence

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

Object number: 2011.14.13

Restrictions & Rights: © 1965 Spider Martin

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Untitled

Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Carr, Bernis Jr., American, 1942 - 1978; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 10 3/4 x 14 in. (27.3 x 35.6 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

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

Date: February, 1978

Description: A black-and-white photograph of two men in uniform seen from behind at a funeral viewing. The casket is open and surrounded by flower arrangements and three stained glass windows appear in the background. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped and inscribed on the back.

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

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

Object number: 2011.15.17

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Untitled

Photograph by: Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
Subject of: Carr, Bernis Jr., American, 1942 - 1978; Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in. (20.2 x 25.1 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

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

Date: February, 1978

Description: A black-and-white photograph of two men in uniform seen from behind at a funeral viewing. The casket is open and surrounded by flower arrangements and three stained glass windows appear in the background. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped and inscribed on the back.

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

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

Object number: 2011.15.19

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People

Written by: Patterson, William L., American, 1891 - 1980
Published by: Civil Rights Congress, founded 1946

Medium: paper (fiber product) and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 3/4 in. (23.5 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm)

Type: books

Date: 1951

Description: There is a sticker on the inside cover with a graphic of a pink and black Egyptian-style lamp with a shining white star about the one end. The graphic text EX LIBRIS is below the image along with the names Vivian and John Hewitt.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; International affairs; Literature; Race relations; United States--History--1953-1961; Violence

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

Object number: 2011.158.8

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

SCLC pallbearers stand over casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Morehouse College on April 12, 1968, Atlanta, GA

Created by: Dr. Withers, Ernest C., American, 1922 - 2007
Subject of: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 19 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (50.2 x 40.3 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 12, 1968

Description: In the foreground of this black-and-white photograph is Dr. King's coffin. Behind it stands a line of men holding hands.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Photography; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anthony Decaneas, Decaneas Archive, and Ernest C. Withers Trust

Object number: 2011.16.3

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Shirley Miller Sherrod Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Sherrod, Shirley Miller, American, born 1948
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; United States Department of Justice, American, founded 1870; Rev. Sherrod, Charles Melvin, American, born 1937; New Communities, American, founded 1969; Federation of Southern Cooperatives, American

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:43:44

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

Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 15, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of twelve digital files: 2011.174.50.1a, 2011.174.50.1b, 2011.174.50.1c, 2011.174.50.1d, 2011.174.50.1e, 2011.174.50.1f, 2011.174.50.1g, 2011.174.50.1h, 2011.174.50.1i, 2011.174.50.1j, and 2011.174.50.1k, 2011.174.50.1l.; Shirley Sherrod recalls growing up on a farm in Baker County, Georgia, her father's murder, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She remembers traveling to Washington, D. C., to protest the Justice Department, and the attacks on her husband, the Reverend Charles Sherrod, a civil rights leader in Albany, Georgia. She also discusses starting the New Communities Land Trust and working for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and other organizations to help African American farmers.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0050

Topic: African American; Activism; Agriculture; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Humanitarianism; Labor; Law; Local and regional; Social reform; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence

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: 2011.174.50.1a-l

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

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Sam Young, Jr. Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Young, Sam Jr., American, born 1950
Interviewed by: Griffin, Willie James Ph. D., American, born 1974
Subject of: Southwest Georgia Project for For Community Education, Inc., American

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 00:42:04

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

Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Worth County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 9, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.66.1a and 2011.174.66.1b.; Samuel J. Young, Jr., describes his childhood in Worth County, Georgia, during the 1950s. He recalls the racial violence that he witnessed and heard stories about as a child. After graduating high school he joined the Southwest Georgia Project. He helped to start a newspaper for the project and was also involved in the group's initiative to develop a self-sufficient farm to counteract discrimination against black farmers.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0066

Topic: African American; Agriculture; American South; Civil rights; Education; Labor; Mass media; Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961; Violence

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: 2011.174.66.1ab

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

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Grace Miller Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Miller, Grace H., American, born 1932
Interviewed by: Griffin, Willie James Ph. D., American, born 1974
Subject of: Sherrod, Shirley Miller, American, born 1948; Miller, Hosie Sr., American, 1925 - 1965

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 00:53:33

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

Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 9, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.67.1a, 2011.174.67.1b, 2011.174.67.1c, 2011.174.67.1d, and 2011.174.67.1e.; Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, Sr., and their early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Grace Hall Miller's commitment to the Baker County Movement grew following the murder of her husband by a white neighbor in 1965. She describes how her house became headquarters for the local movement and how the community rallied to support her and her children. Miller's children were among the black students who integrated white schools, and because of their experience, she dedicated much of her life to improving education.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0067

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Children; Civil rights; Education; Families; Segregation; Social reform; United States--History--1961-1969; Violence

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: 2011.174.67.1a-e

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

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Flier for the film King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox

Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless

The Negro Worker Vol. 2 No. 4

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Patience on a Monument

Letter concerning procurement of whips, personal affects, and bolts of cloth

Rolling Stone, issue #637

Disgusting

Untitled

Untitled

We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People

SCLC pallbearers stand over casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Morehouse College on April 12, 1968, Atlanta, GA

Shirley Miller Sherrod Oral History Interview

Sam Young, Jr. Oral History Interview

Grace Miller Oral History Interview

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