Newspaper clipping about student artists at Coolidge High School: Museum Object and Cultural History
Newspaper clipping about student artists at Coolidge High School: Date: late 1960s. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Susan Dopp, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A newspaper clipping with a brief article of a student at Washington, DC's Calvin Coolidge High School on each side. The clipping is printed in black text on off-white paper. One side features a black-and-white image and biography of student Susan Dopp and the other side has an image and biography of student Wendy Wilson. Each student is being recognized for their artistic talent and large text at the bottom of the Wilson side reads [the artists]. The clipping is from the collection of civil rights activist Jan Bailey and had a number of pinback buttons attached to the clipping:
2013.201.1.23.2 Pinback button for a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.
2013.201.1.23.4 Pinback button for the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU)
2013.201.1.23.6 Pinback button for the Black National Political Convention.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: late 1960s
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Susan Dopp, American
- Subject of: Wendy Wilson, American
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: clippings
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 6 7/8 × 4 in. (17.5 × 10.2 cm)
- Place printed: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Local and regional
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Topic: Youth
- Object number: 2013.201.1.23.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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