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Pinback button protesting the imprisonment of the Wilmington 10: Date: 1971 - 1980. Manufactured by: GATEWAYS UNLTD., American. Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010.
Talk Derby to Me 2012 Trading Cards: date made: 2012. Object Name: card, roller derby. Physical Description: cardboard (overall material).
Flier for the exhibit "Grace Before Dying": Date: 2009. Photograph by: Lori Waselchuk, American. Designed by: Moonshine Studio, American.
Pinback button for the NAACP: Date: 1940s - 1950s. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909.
Playbill for Ain't Misbehavin': Date: 1981. Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884. Used by: Belasco Theatre, American, 1895 - 1964.
Program for a production by The Gilpin Players: Date: 1934. Created by: Karamu House, American, founded 1915. Subject of: Gilpin Players, American, founded 1922.
Film still from To Sir, with Love: Date: 1967. Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919. Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000.
Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist: Date: ca. 1917. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dovie Wright Jordan, American.
Pinback button for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign designed by Gail Anderson: Date: 2016. Designed by: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962. Manufactured by: Unidentified.
Broadside advertisement for a James Brown concert at the Nippon Budokan: Date: 1992-1993. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: James Brown, American, 1933 - 2006.
Document advertising tourism in Miami: Date: February 1964. Distributed by: Dundee-MacDonald Enterprises, Inc., American, founded 1963. Subject of: Muhammad Ali, American, 1942 - 2016.
Homecoming: Date: 1984. Created by: National Council for Black Studies, American, founded 1975. Type: programs.
Superman, Special Edition U.S Navy: Date made: 1944. publisher: United States Navy. author: Siegel, Jerry.
Blue t-shirt for Andrew Gillum gubernatorial campaign: Date: 2018. Manufactured by: Gildan Activewear Inc., Canadian, founded 1984. Subject of: Andrew Gillum, American, born 1979.
Pinback button advocating for Angela Davis: Date: 1971-1972. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944.
Football program for Booker T. Washington High School: Date: ca. 1930. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Booker T. Washington High School, American, founded 1913.
Advertisement for Amos 'n' Andy Television Show sponsored by Blatz: Date: June 25, 1951. Commissioned by: Valentin Blatz Brewing Company, American, 1851 - 1959. Published by: Life Magazine, 1883 - 2007.
Pennant for Norfolk State University: Date: late 20th century - early 21st century. Manufactured by: Wincraft, Inc., American, founded 1961. Subject of: Norfolk State University, American, founded 1935.
Photographic postcard of a woman: Date: 1918-1930. Photograph by: Unidentified. Printed by: Eastman Kodak Company, founded 1889.
Links 29th National Assembly name tag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Date: 1994. Issued by: The Links, Incorporated, American, founded 1946. Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004.
Lobby card for the movie Coffy: Date: 1973. Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000. Subject of: Pam Grier, American, born 1949.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: America's Greatest Gospel Singing and Guitar Playing Star: Date: 1958. Created by: Jazzshows Limited, British, 1956 - 1962. Subject of: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973.
Conan the Barbarian No. 34: date made: 1973. date made: 1974. date made: 1975.
Star Wars No. 36: date made: 1980. maker: Marvel Comics. Object Name: comic book.
Lapel pin for the Jesse Jackson 1984 presidential election: Date: 1983 - 1984. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, 1941 - 2026.
Playbill for 'Master Harold' …and the boys: Date: 2003. Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884. Used by: Royale Theatre, American, founded 1927.
Program for boxing match between Tony Doyle and Joe Frazier: Date: 1967. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Joe Frazier, American, 1944 - 2011.
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.
Pepsi ad in Ebony magazine, "Refreshes without filling... Have a Pepsi": Date: March 1957. Published by: Johnson Publishing Company, American, 1942 - 2019. Subject of: PepsiCo Inc., American, founded 1898.
Broadside announcing the sale of a man, Dick, and a girl, Lydia: Date: 1857. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
Pinback button with "Nation of Islam" on it, from the MMM 20th Anniversary: Date: 2015. Distributed by: Justice or Else, American, founded 2015. Subject of: Nation of Islam, American, founded 1930.
Collar clip stating "Don't Join Jim Crow Army": Date: 1940-1945. Created by: Green Duck Company, American, 1906 - 2004. Type: buttons (information artifacts).
Superman No. 393: Date made: 1984-03. artist: Giordano, Dick. artist: Anderson, Murphy.
The Warlord No. 121: date made: 1976. date made: 1978. date made: 1977.
The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian No. 13: date made: 1976. Object Name: comic book. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
Program for "Light in the Southern Sky": Date: 1958. Written by: William Blackwell Branch, American, 1927 - 2019. Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
Flier for an event featuring Angelo Herndon: Date: 1938. Created by: Young Communist League, American, founded 1920. Subject of: Angelo Braxton Herndon, American, 1913 - 1997.
Program for "Freeman": Date: 1973. Written by: Phillip Hayes Dean, American, 1931 - 2014. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
Program for Spermegga starring Clarice Taylor: Date: 2000. Created by: New Federal Theatre, American, founded 1970. Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
Program for the play Wedding Band: Date: 1966. Created by: University of Michigan, American, founded 1817. Subject of: Alice Childress, American, 1912 - 1994.