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1.
Jackson, Mahalia, Best Loved Spirituals album cover image, circa 1999

Date:

1999 approx.

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African American woman posing while holding a basketball

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Penn Studio (Baltimore, Md.)

Date:

April 3, 1977

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Cle_o Verne_e [hand colored]

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September 6, 1977

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Flower ladies of Chapel Hill [hand colored]

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Colonial Press, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Date:

May 19, 1975

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Portia Marshall Washington Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington, sitting by a bouquet of flowers

Date:

February 1975

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Lyle Russell Cedric Skitch Henderson and Kwame N. Krumah greeting with employees of the N.Y. Amsterdam News

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Harris Photo.

Date:

June 13, 1973

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Gospel party with old couple and four children

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

November 4, 1972

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Group photo of Brotherhood Youth Movement

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

June 12, 1972

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Group of adults with childen planting and watering flowers

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

June 11, 1971

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Mississippi attorney William Miller (L) of Jackson, Imari Obadele, (C), president of the Republic of New Africa, and Aishei Salim, minister of information for the republic, announcing the construction of buildings in Hinds County

Date:

1971-30-3

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Sunday school of New York on parade

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Harris Photo.

Date:

June 5, 1971

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Victoria Spivey wearing a sweater seated at a piano with a microphone next to her and a guitar laying on top of the piano

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Sh.

Date:

April 9, 1971

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An African American female student at the campus of Florida A & M University, Tallahasee, Florida

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Dukane Press.

Date:

1970 approx.

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African American male and female students outside the Florida A. & M. University in Tallahasee, Fla.

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Dukane Press.

Date:

1970 approx.

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Group of African American women standing in front of a store with advertisements on it, each holding a handbag

Date:

July 1970

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Men and women at the National Urban League Conference

Date:

August 1970

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17.
Wesley Frierson Investment Co.

Date:

July 1970

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18.
African American family sitting on a porch

Date:

1969

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19.
Afro-Spanish Restaurant

Creator:

Hamilton, Alex.

Date:

November 9, 1968

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20.
Antigua Progressive Society members around a podium

Date:

June 1, 1968

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21.
Miss Chica-A-Dee of 1967 ... Miss Erestine Latson, one of St. Louis newest fashions queen in a dress wearing her crown and carrying a bouquet of flowers accompanied by Lela Williams

Date:

June 12, 1967

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22.
Blind singles concert at Salem Methodist Church

Creator:

McAdams, David.

Date:

May 23, 1965

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23.
The governor's palace kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia : two African American women cooks

Creator:

Overly, Charles H.

Date:

June 23, 1965

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24.
Portrait of Mrs. Scipio Lizette D. Forth, ex slave

Date:

April 5, 1965

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25.
An African American woman in a dress and three African American men in suits at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:

Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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26.
Album cover photo of Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell

Creator:

Rosenbaum, Art.

Date:

1963

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Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:

Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

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Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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29.
Portrait of Anna P. Burrell in 1962

Date:

1962

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30.
Snooks Eaglin playing guitar on a set of steps outside of a house, with men, women and children gathered around him

Date:

1962

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31.
African American couple with the man wearing a fez

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Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

1961

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32.
A blonde Helen Curl Harris with Ella Fitzgerald

Creator:

Mosley, John W.

Date:

1961

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33.
John H. Murray talking with African American woman outside of house in Berkeley, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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34.
John H. Murray with woman in dining room, having breakfast and reading the newspaper in Berekely, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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35.
Rosalie Reese accepting her prize for first place individual twister in the Dewer's Twist contest in Small's Paradise

Date:

November 28, 1961

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36.
Black literary figures, including Nikki Giovanni and Roy L. Hill with a poster of Malcolm X

Date:

1960s

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37.
Plantation kitchen, Arlington Confederate Shrine, Birmingham, Ala.

Creator:

Alabama Post Card Co. (Bessemer, Ala.)

Date:

July 19, 1960

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38.
Ida Love using a telephone, sitting on a sofa

Creator:

Chuck Willis Photography (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

1959

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Leona Di Bique posing in a schoolyard

Creator:

Chuck Willis Photography (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

1959

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40.
Miss Willa Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Bhatta Charya, Mrs. E.S. Williams, and Rev. H.E. Walden speaking after the Wilburn Versatile Singers concert at the Grant Memorial A.M.E. Church, Chicago (Ill.)

Creator:

Williams, Milt.

Date:

May 25, 1959

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41.
National Association of College Women, 36th Annual Convention, Hotel Douglas, Newark, New Jersey, August 14, 1959

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Central Photo-Flash Photographers (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

August 14, 1959

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42.
Cotton Pickers in Dixieland : a group of African American men, African American women and African American children picking cotton with scattered trees in the background [hand colored]

Creator:

Tichnor Bros., Inc. (Boston, Mass.)

Date:

July 10, 1958

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43.
Ghana goldsmith lets one of three girls try on gold necklace

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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44.
Group of men and women in front of Parliament House in Accra, Ghana

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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45.
Men and women wearing O.E.S. society sashes

Creator:

Bastress, Robert L.

Date:

April 1958

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46.
Rachel, standing on a busy sidewalk

Date:

October 21, 1958

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47.
Rose Odamtten admires dress at Kingsway with two girls

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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48.
Women around Kwame Omyah, a Ghana goldsmith, to admire jewelry

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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49.
Women chat with Mowbray Elliot next to small bus

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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50.
African American woman sitting on a chair reading a book to her two girls, with an African American man sitting in another chair, in front of a fireplace

Creator:

Lambert.

Date:

December 12, 1957

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51.
Flower vendor, Charleston, S.C., America's Most Historic City

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

February 12, 1957

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52.
Members of the Good Samaritan Club standing in front of cross

Date:

December 21, 1957

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53.
Picking cotton in the sunny South : African American women and an African American man picking cotton in a field with houses in the background [hand colored]

Creator:

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.)

Date:

October 19, 1957

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54.
Supervised food preparation, class 1957, at Home Eckers Trade School in Raleigh, N.C.

Creator:

Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1957

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55.
10 prints of African American amputee in home and in doctor's office in Memphis, Tenn.

Date:

1956

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56.
Line of women in dresses standing on one foot with a woman instructing them, and another playing the piano

Creator:

Halvey, Robert S.

Date:

March 7, 1956

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57.
Men and women in front of circus sign that says Thaisa Gardner Beautiful Tiny Mite

Date:

August 1956

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58.
Premier season : Booker Terrace

Date:

March 4, 1956

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59.
Two African American men in suits and two African American women in dresses standing in front of a fake window with curtains underneath a sign which says Original Peter Pan May 5 1956

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Savoy.

Date:

May 5, 1956

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60.
African American woman standing next to an opened car door

Date:

1955

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61.
Miss Etta and Brunson looking at storaged goods such as canned food

Creator:

Bryson, S.K.

Date:

December 6, 1955

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62.
Miss Helen Colbert, Mr. Leslie Scott and Mr. Lawson Ambassador NSA to Greece at a reception in Athens Greece in 1955

Date:

1955

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63.
The 1954 class of Ambrose High School in Lexington, Miss.

Creator:

Robinson Studio.

Date:

1954

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64.
African American men and women sitting at a table drinking alcoholic beverages

Date:

February 16, 1954

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65.
Funeral service for an African American woman

Creator:

Bryson, S. K.

Date:

September 2, 1954

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66.
Helen Colbert and three other women on 03/20/1954

Date:

March 20, 1954

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67.
J. Edward Green in a A.E.A.O.N.M.S. fez with two women

Date:

August 16, 1954

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68.
Men wearing society fezzes and women near boat entrance

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

August 2, 1954

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69.
Funeral service at First A.M.E. Church

Creator:

Farnborough Foto.

Date:

February 28, 1953

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70.
2 Guides at the Lewis Plantation

Creator:

Florida Speaks Corp. (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Date:

November 7, 1952

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71.
African American men and women at one long table with party streamers above them

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

May 26, 1952

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72.
Anne Wolfolk, Jalyeane A. Taylor, Ray Ferynson and Eugene Whitlock at the American Council on Human Rights 2nd annual meeting

Creator:

Dummett.

Date:

February 10, 1952

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73.
Doctors and nurses performing surgery at Lincoln Hospital

Creator:

Smith.

Date:

May 5, 1952

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74.
Fourth Annual Convention : the National Links

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios.

Date:

July 25, 1952

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75.
Sideways portrait of a man in a suit standing behind a woman in a dress with his arms around her waist holding her hands in front of a painted backdrop of a garden view with pillars

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Sharon's.

Date:

December 12, 1952

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76.
A young African American woman wearing sunglasses seated on a railing

Creator:

Powell.

Date:

1952

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77.
African American woman dancing in front of a band on stage at the Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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78.
African American woman dancing on stage at the Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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79.
Atlanta Life Delegates to the N.N.I.A. Convention

Date:

1951

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Attorney Willard B. Ransom, now general manager of company delivers memorial eulogy at the grave of Mme. C.J. Walker in New York during the pilgrimage honoring her sponsored by the National Beauty Culturists League in 1951

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Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.)

Date:

1951

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81.
Billie Holiday singing on stage in front of an audience at Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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82.
Five women in dresses sitting on chairs and a sofa looking at and handing paper to each other

Creator:

Sleet, M. J., Jr.

Date:

1951

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A group picture of African American women wearing dresses, some seated on the floor, some seated and some standing, in a living room

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Will-Ellen Studios.

Date:

May 11, 1951

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84.
M & M Cafeteria suggestion card

Date:

March 25, 1951

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85.
St. Augustine choir in graduation robes in front of pipe organ

Creator:

Mosley, John W.

Date:

1951

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86.
Three African American women and one man looking at a bulletin pamphlet

Creator:

Godbey.

Date:

July 29, 1951

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87.
An African American man and an African American woman standing on some stairs embracing

Date:

1950 approx.

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88.
An African American man in a suit and bow tie standing in front of an end table looking at an African American woman in a skirt and blouse seated in a cushioned chair

Date:

1950s

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An African American man seated at at a desk with a typewriter holding a pen with paper in front of him kissing an African American woman seated on the edge of the desk

Date:

1950s

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African American models in front of the Hollywood Sign

Date:

1950s

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African American models in Los Angeles

Date:

1950s

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92.
African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Date:

1950

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93.
Black physicians in Philadelphia, circa 1950

Date:

1950 approx.

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94.
Department store lunch counter with Colored Only sign

Creator:

Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.

Date:

1950s

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95.
Geneva's Beauty Salon

Date:

1950

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96.
Greetings from Walnut Ridge, Arkansas : African American woman picking cotton in a field, in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

July 12, 1950

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97.
Mrs. Edith Sampson standing on the steps of a TWA airplane

Creator:

Enell Inc.

Date:

September 6, 1950

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98.
Shrimp docks-Southport, N.C. : with African American men and women working

Date:

September 5, 1950

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99.
Clara Ward and three other gospel singers

Date:

September 17, 1949

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100.
Funeral service for Leah B. Farrar

Creator:

Brodnax Studio (Richmond, Va.)

Date:

March 23, 1949

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