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"Mammy" cloth doll with a red and floral dress and a matching floral kerchief: Date: mid 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: cloth dolls.
Marionette in the form of a caricatured man: Date: 19th-20th century. Created by: Unidentified. Type: puppets.
Pinback button endorsing Shirley Chisholm for President: Date: 1972. Manufactured by: Bristow, American. Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005.
Poster for The Four Inkspots and the N.B.C. Orchestra: Date: 1950s. Created by: Unidentified. Distributed by: Gale Inc., American.
Static Shock action figure owned by Dwayne McDuffie: Date: 2004. Distributed by: Subway, American, founded 1965. Manufactured by: Unidentified.
Miniature Black baby doll with a dark pink dress and red hair bows: Date: 1945-1952. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: baby dolls.
Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs: Date: 1950; published 1976. Published by: Political Affairs Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1944. Written by: Paul Robeson, American, 1898 - 1976.
Pinback button protesting apartheid: Date: 1985. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Columbia University, American, founded 1754.
Pinback button for the Million Family March: Date: October 16, 2000. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Million Family March, founded 2000.
Playbill for Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island: Date: 1975. Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884. Subject of: John Kani, South African, born 1943.
Pinback button with quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Date: ca. 1963. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
Flier for a pre-march Freedom Rally for the Meredith Marchers: Date: 1966. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Tougaloo College, American, founded 1869.
Conan the Barbarian No. 80: date made: 1973. date made: 1974. date made: 1975.
Kull the Destroyer No. 15: date made: 1974. maker: Marvel Comics. Object Name: comic book.
Calendar from 1956: Date: 1956. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
Dance card for the University of Illinois Senior Ball: Date: 1924. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Issued by: University of Illinois, American, founded 1867.
Placard with BE MORE BALTIMORE slogan: Date: 2015. Printed by: Globe Collection and Press at MICA, founded 2011. Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015.
Advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post featuring a Pullman Porter: Date: June 17, 1922. Created by: J.C. Leyendecker, American, 1874 - 1951. Subject of: Kuppenheimer, American, 1876 - 1997.
Page 1 of album belonging to Lewis C. Smith: Date: 1943-1944. Compiled by: Lewis Curtis Smith, American, 1921 - 1997. Subject of: Tuskegee Airmen, 1941 - 1946.
Newspaper clipping about student artists at Coolidge High School: Date: late 1960s. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Susan Dopp, American.
Program for a boxing match between Ron Stander and Joe Frazier: Date: 1972. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Joe Frazier, American, 1944 - 2011.
Pinback button with War Against Repression / Guerra Contra Represión: Date: 1971. Issued by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957. Manufactured by: Horo Co., American.
Civil Rights! Miscegenation Allowed by Congress, Despite the Veto of the President: Date: 1866. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Hiester Clymer, American, 1827 - 1884.
Broadside for the musical drama "Out of Bondage": Date: 1876. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Anna Madah Hyers, American, 1855 - 1929.
Event pass for Kevin Hart event at the Bayou Classic: Date: 2013. Distributed by: Coca-Cola Company, American, founded 1892. Subject of: Kevin Darnell Hart, American, born 1979.
Rubber Duckie used by Ernie on Sesame Street: date made: ca. 1969. date made: 1970s. Object Name: Duck, Toy.
The Warlord No. 7: date made: 1976. date made: 1978. date made: 1977.
American Woodmen banner for Georgetown Camp No. 4: Date: 1922-1952. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Supreme Camp of American Woodmen, American, 1901 - 1994.
Mask shaped sign used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, LA: Date: 2012. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Used by: Black Men of Labor, Inc., American, founded 1994.
Pinback button in support of Community Action Programs: Date: late 1970s. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: buttons (information artifacts).
Flier for "The T-Connection Discos' Down with... The Herculords": Date: November 1979. Created by: PHASE 2, American, 1955 - 2019. Subject of: T-Connection, American.
Volunteer badge from the 2008 Obama campaign: Date: 2008. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961.
Pencil and paper business records from Mae's Millinery Shop: Date: 1941-1994. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Written by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016.
Playbill for Having Our Say: Date: 1995. Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884. Used by: Booth Theatre, American, founded 1913.
Postcard for The Official "Party With A Purpose" Afterparty, MMM 20th Anniv.: Date: 2015. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: DJ Jazzy Jay, American, born 1961.
Advertisement for the Norlin Corporation: Date: after 1969. Created by: Norlin Corporation, American, founded 1969. Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
Pinback button for Donald M. Payne's U.S. Congress campaign: Date: ca. 1989. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Donald Milford Payne Sr., American, 1934 - 2012.
Cover of the May 5, 2003 Sports Illustrated issue owned by Robert Johnson: Date: May 5, 2003. Published by: Sports Illustrated, American, founded 1954. Subject of: Robert L. Johnson, American, born 1946.
Pinback button with the NAACP scales of justice: Date: 1909-1919. Manufactured by: Whitehead & Hoag Company, American, 1892 - 1965. Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909.
Bread and Puppet Theater Poster for Travelling Circus: referenced: Bread and Puppet Theater. Object Name: poster. Physical Description: paper (overall material).