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Repurposed lotion tub with items belonging to Herman Wallace: Date: after 1972. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Herman Wallace, American, 1941 - 2013.
Playbill for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Date: 2003. Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884. Used by: Royale Theatre, American, founded 1927.
Shadowland No. 1: date made: 2010. maker: Marvel Comics. Object Name: comic book.
Color picture of Sammy Davis Jr. inscribed to Ginger Smock: Date: 1980s. Printed by: Allen Photographics, American. Signed by: Sammy Davis Jr., American, 1925 - 1990.
The Nightingale: Date: January 1947. Edited by: Ella M. Bolden. Illustrated by: Pauline Brown Payne, American.
Autograph sheet from Negro League Baseball Players Association Reunion: Date: October 13, 1990. Created by: Negro League Baseball Players Association, American, founded 1990. Type: autographs.
Pinback button from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign: Date: ca. 2017-2018. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Stacey Y. Abrams, American, born 1973.
Flier for "Must Be the Music Skate Affair" at the Bronx Skating Rink: Date: 1982. Distributed by: Nubian Productions, American. Designed by: Unidentified.
Ticket for Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall, and Albert King at the Fillmore/Winterland: Date: 1968. Designed by: Rick Griffin, American, 1944 - 1991. Subject of: Jimi Hendrix, American, 1942 - 1970.
Pendant for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows: Date: ca. 1910. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American, founded 1843.
Souvenir Program of the Goodwill Baptist Church in the Dedication of their New House of Worship: Date: 1953. Created by: Goodwill Baptist Church, American, founded after 1900. Subject of: Rev. William B. Ball, American, born ca. 1890.
Program from the March on Washington: Date: August 28, 1963. Printed by: Unidentified. Used by: Dr. Samuel Y. Edgerton Jr., American, 1926 - 2021.
Pinback buttons for the Young Workers Liberation League: Date: 1965-1984. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Young Communist League, American, founded 1920.
Pinback button with the text Triumph: Date: late 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: buttons (information artifacts).
What Are We Doing in the Congo?: Date: 1965. Published by: New Outlook Publishers, American. Written by: Hyman Lumer, American.
Sign in the shape of the letter "B" used in a Black Men of Labor parade: Date: 2012. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Used by: Black Men of Labor, Inc., American, founded 1994.
Lobby Card for Tamango: Date: 1958. Distributed by: Vitalite Films. Directed by: John Berry, American, 1917 - 1999.
Broadside No. 7: A Poem for Black Hearts: Date: April 1965. Written by: Amiri Baraka, American, 1934 - 2014. Published by: Broadside Press, founded 1965.
The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian No. 30: date made: 1978. Object Name: comic book. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
Conan the Barbarian No. 99: date made: 1973. date made: 1974. date made: 1975.
Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign: Date: ca. 1972. Manufactured by: Columbia Advertising Company, American. Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005.
Airline freight tag from Mae's Millinery Shop: Date: 1941-1994. Printed by: Air France, founded 1933. Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016.
Flier for Tatiana Record Company Summer Moonlight Cruise: Date: 1988. Distributed by: The Scratch Me Company, American, 1987 - 1988. Designed by: Unidentified.
Pinback button for Barbara Jordan from the 1992 Democratic National Convention: Date: 1992. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Barbara Jordan, American, 1936 - 1996.
Posters with STOP MURDER BY POLICE message: Date: 2015. Created by: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, American, founded 1975. Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015.
Cardboard meal box used by Seba Johnson in 1988 Winter Olympics: Date: 1988. Created by: Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian, founded 1907. Used by: Seba Johnson, born 1973.
Superboy No. 60: date made: 1999. maker: D. C. Comics, Inc.. maker: D. C. Comics, Inc..
Flyer advertising Spartacist League Forum: Date: 1976. Created by: Spartacist League, American, founded 1966. Subject of: Richard Carling, American.
Document listing physical measurements for Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay: Date: February 1964. Distributed by: Dundee-MacDonald Enterprises, Inc., American, founded 1963. Subject of: Muhammad Ali, American, 1942 - 2016.
Spanish language flier for a March on Washington to overturn the Bakke decision: Date: 1978. Created by: National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision, American, founded 1978. Subject of: Allan Bakke, American, born 1940.
Flyer urging readers to contact their congressional representatives: Date: February 23, 1978. Created by: Committee to Stop the US-South Africa Alliance, American. Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912.
Souvenir du Carnival, Photograph of French Antillean dress: Date: July 8, 1967. Published by: Unidentified. Photograph by: Unidentified.
Promotional pamphlet for Soul City: Date: 1971. Published by: Floyd B. McKissick Enterprises, Inc., American, founded 1968. Type: pamphlets.
Pinback button for the Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign: Date: 1972. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005.
The Adventures of Superman No. 563: date made: 1999. maker: D. C. Comics, Inc.. Object Name: comic book.
Poster for presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm: Date: 1972. Printed by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005.
United Nations ID card belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Date: 1989. Issued by: United Nations, founded 1945. Subject of: The Links, Incorporated, American, founded 1946.
Pinback button with a black panther on it, from the MMM 20th Anniversary: Date: 2015. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982.
Poster advocating a boycott of the 1968 Olympics signed by Harry Edwards: Issued by: Olympic Project for Human Rights, American, 1967 - 1968. Illustrated by: Bozé. Subject of: International Olympic Committee, Swiss, founded 1894.
The Jobless Negro: Date: 1933. Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930. Written by: Elizabeth Lawson, American.