Ticket to a Tri-Benefit Performance of the Freedom Singers: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Four (4) tickets to a Tri-Benefit Performance featuring the Freedom Singers of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The concert was held January 31, 1963 at 4:00pm at the Bethesda Baptist Church in New Rochelle, NY. The tickets are printed in black ink on cream paper. The left side of each ticket is perforated so that the left one-third of the ticket could have been torn off when the ticket-holder attended the concert. .1 is ticket No. 188; .2 is ticket No. 937; .3 is ticket No. 1366; .4 is ticket No. 1374.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1963
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: The Freedom Singers, American, founded 1962
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: Transportation for Childen, Inc., founded 1961
• Subject of: Bethesda Baptist Church, founded 1888
• Type: tickets
• Medium: printing ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 x 6 in. (5.1 x 15.2 cm)
• Place used: New Rochelle, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Baptist
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2014.51.1-.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Arthur L. Pulley, Jr. Memorial Center for Creativity, Greenfield Park, NY
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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