A Darky's Prayer: Museum Object and Cultural History
A Darky's Prayer: Created by: Asheville Postcard Company, American, founded 1910. Type: postcards. Medium: ink on paper with mat board.
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A Darky's Prayer: Created by: Asheville Postcard Company, American, founded 1910. Type: postcards. Medium: ink on paper with mat board.

Program for the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom": Date: August 28, 1963. Created by: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
Program for the film Such Good Friends: Date: 1971. Written by: Elaine May, American, born 1932. Directed by: Otto Ludwig Preminger, Austrian American, 1905 - 1986.
Program for two plays by Theater in the Street: Date: ca. 1963. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011. Subject of: Theater in the Street, American, founded 1962.
Program for The Egg & I: Date: 1958. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Betty MacDonald, American, 1907 - 1958.
Brass bell souvenir from the First National Negro Business League meeting: Date: 1900. Manufactured by: F. G. Stedman, American. Subject of: National Negro Business League, American, 1901 - 1966.
Pinback button for Dick Gregory's 1968 write-in presidential campaign: Date: 1968. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Dick Gregory, American, 1932 - 2017.

Handbill in support of Angelo Herndon: Date: ca. 1935. Created by: Buffalo Free Herndon Committee, American, 1932 - 1935. Subject of: Angelo Braxton Herndon, American, 1913 - 1997.

Leaflet for the Young Communist League featuring Angelo Herndon: Date: 1936. Created by: Young Communist League, American, founded 1920. Subject of: Angelo Braxton Herndon, American, 1913 - 1997.
Program for the musical revue Just A Little Simple: Date: 1950. Created by: Committee for the Negro in the Arts, American, founded 1947. Subject of: Langston Hughes, American, 1902 - 1967.

Poster for Negro Ensemble Company performances at the 1972 Olympic Festival: Date: 1972. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967.

Playbill for the Negro Ensemble Company's A Soldier’s Play: Date: 1981. Published by: American Theatre Press, Inc., American. Subject of: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967.

Poster for Negro Ensemble Company at the Teatro Parioli in Rome, Italy: Date: 1969. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967.
Program for "Major Barbara": Date: 1953. Written by: George Bernard Shaw, American, 1856 - 1950. Subject of: Greenwich Mews Theatre, American, founded 1940.

Poster for Five on the Black Hand Side: Date: 1969. Created by: American Place Theatre, American, founded 1963. Subject of: Charlie L. Russell, American, 1932 - 2013.
White armband issued to Massachusetts members of the SCLC: Date: ca. 1960-1964. Created by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957. Type: armbands.
Program for Six Scenes from Great Plays Thru the Ages by NYCASP: Date: 1950s. Created by: New York Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, American, active 1950s. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
Negro History Week: A National Celebration: Date: December 1932. Distributed by: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, American, founded 1915. Written by: Dr. Carter G. Woodson, American, 1875 - 1950.

Poster for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE): Date: ca. 1965. Created by: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942. Type: posters.
Program for the the play Nat Turner: Date: 1950-1951. Created by: People's Drama, Inc., American, founded 1949. Subject of: Eugene V. Frankel, American, 1919 - 2005.
Program for a Negro History Week event sponsored by Local 1199: Date: likely 1953. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011. Subject of: North Harlem Pharmaceutical Association, American, founded 1951.
Program for "A Medal for Willie": Date: 1951. Distributed by: Committee for the Negro in the Arts, American, founded 1947. Subject of: William Blackwell Branch, American, 1927 - 2019.
Flier for the play Gold Through the Trees: Date: 1952. Created by: Committee for the Negro in the Arts, American, founded 1947. Subject of: Alice Childress, American, 1912 - 1994.

Playbill for Purlie: Date: 1998. Subject of: Philip Rose, 1921 - 2011. Subject of: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, American, founded 1971.
Bumper sticker for Dick Gregory's 1968 write-in presidential campaign: Date: 1968. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dick Gregory, American, 1932 - 2017.
Flier for a reception for Dr. Herbert Aptheker hosted by The North Star Players: Date: likely 1953. Created by: The North Star Players, American, active early 1950s. Subject of: Herbert Aptheker, 1915 - 2003.
Flier for a Bar-B-Que sponsored by the Black Panthers: Date: May 23, 1971. Created by: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982. Type: fliers (printed matter).
Blue armband issued to Massachusetts members of the SCLC: Date: ca. 1960-1964. Distributed by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957. Type: armbands.
Playbill for the Negro Ensemble Company production of God is a (Guess What?): Date: 1968. Created by: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967. Subject of: Michael Schultz, American, born 1938.

Program from the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial: Date: July 10, 1974. Commissioned by: National Council of Negro Women, American, founded 1935. Produced by: National Park Service, American, founded 1916.
Program for "Gray Panthers" by J.E. Franklin: Date: 1991. Created by: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, American, founded 1905. Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.

Program for 'Moms' starring Clarice Taylor as Moms Mabley: Date: ca. 1987. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011. Subject of: Moms Mabley, American, 1897 - 1975.

A Call to all the People of Asbury Park to Hear The Greatest Living Negro and Orator Hon. Marcus Garvey: Date: 1924. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican, 1887 - 1940.

WUSA9 microphone logo: Date: 2020. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: WUSA9, American, founded 1949.

WUSA9 microphone logo: Date: 2020. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: WUSA9, American, founded 1949.

Time: Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955: Date: July 10, 1974. Subject of: National Council of Negro Women, American, founded 1935. Subject of: Mary McLeod Bethune, American, 1875 - 1955.
Pamphlet for Dick Gregory's 1968 write-in presidential campaign: Date: 1968. Printed by: Unidentified. Distributed by: Peace and Freedom Party, American, founded 1967.
Program for the Negro Ensemble Company's 20th birthday celebration: Date: 1987. Created by: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
Poster for the Negro Ensemble Company at the Aldwych Theatre: Date: 1969. Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011. Subject of: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967.
Program for a performance by Clarice Taylor at the Apple Corps Theatre: Date: 1989. Created by: Apple Corps Theatre, American. Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.