Women singing at the NAACP Conference: Museum Object and Cultural History
Women singing at the NAACP Conference: Date: 1967; printed later. Photograph by: Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
A digital print depicting a black-and-white image of three women singing beside two men at the 1967 NAACP Conference in Albany, New York. Taken from the side, the three women, two in the front and one in the back, are the most centered. A microphone and podium are in front of the two women. A streak of light shines in the upper right quadrant.
The woman most centered in the photograph is wearing a soda jerk hat printed with [RWDSU / LOCAL / 1199], a New York hospital and health care union affiliated with AFL-CIO. Her hands are clasped at her waist and she is wearing a mid-sleeve coat. The second woman is to the first woman’s proper left, who has her proper right hand raised at chest level and is wearing a dark-colored dress. To the second woman’s proper left is a man in a suit and a kufi hat. His face is covered by the microphone.
The third woman, behind the first two, is presumably wearing dark coat with an illegible button or sticker on her proper right upper chest. A man is standing to her proper left, wearing presumably a black hat.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1967; printed later
- Photograph by: Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: inkjet prints
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Place depicted: Albany, Albany County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2021.53.30
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Estate of Frank Espada Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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