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A carte-de-viste depicting the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, with all nine members present.

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Black and white group photograph of Pullman Porters at their Annual Convention in 1937.
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Pullman Porters and Maids

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A black and white portrait of young Medgar Evers. He has a small mustache and dressed in a dark suit.
Biography

Medgar Evers

  • Military
A black and white photograph of Esau Jenkins, Alfred Fields, and Rev. Willis Goodwin, holding each other outside of A Citizens Committee vban.
Community Story

The Progressive Club of Johns Island

  • Education
Black and white group photograph of Pullman Porters at their Annual Convention in 1937.
Community Story

Pullman Porters and Maids

  • Organizations
Black and white photgraph of 6 Black children standing in a line with hands by theri side.  There are 2 boys and 4 girls pictured.  The children are dressed up for school and look directly at the camera
Historic Event

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Politics
Color photograph of wooden house with American flag flying out front.
Community Story

Rock Rest Tourist Home

  • Family
Photograph of Boat in the Marshes of St. Simon’s Island
Historic Event

The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home

  • Slavery
Three quarter length oil painting portrait of a woman with closely cropped hair holding a teacup and saucer decorated.  She is dressed in a high necked red blouse with a yellow scarf. She also wears a black and white stiped pants.
Historic Event

The Power of a Portrait

  • Women's Voices
Photograph of African American children dressed in school uniforms and seated outside in three rows of benches.
Biography

Edmonia Highgate

  • Women's Voices
Black and white print showing a plantation house
Biography

Roosje

  • Women's Voices
A black and white illustration of the port of Liverpool on a cloudy day. Several sail and row boats in the water.
Biography

William P. Powell Sr

  • Slavery
A brightly colored mural wall with a few faces, including Marème Diarra. A quote is to left of Marème Diarra.
Biography

Marème Diarra

  • Women's Voices
Black and white photograph of Etta Moten Barnett and another woman examining a large map of Africa hanging on the wall. Wearing a long sleeved white blouse with a brooch at the neckline and a grey straight skirt, Etta Moten Barnett stands to the side of the map and points to the country of Liberia with her right arm outstretched. The woman standing next to her wears a light grey dress with double breasted black button up the front and a black belt.
Biography

Etta Moten Barnett

  • Women's Voices
Man rolling whiskey barrels through a production floor
Biography

The Man Behind Tennessee Whiskey

  • Slavery
Historic map of Philadelphia
Biography

Crossing the Color Line to Freedom

  • Slavery
Photograph of African American man and horse
Biography

An African American Venturer

  • Land
Illustration of White House
Biography

Enslaved at the White House

  • Slavery
Illustration of outdoor church gathering
Biography

Preacher Jarena Lee: Praise in the Meantime

  • Women's Voices
Printed cartoon showing the assignation of Octavius Catto in Philadelphia in 1871.
Biography

Octavius Catto

  • Politics
Photograph of 5 women from AKA Sorority
Community Story

The Mississippi Health Project II: AKA Revisits Its Model for Community Health Care

  • Women's Voices
Black and white photograph of three children walking down street.  There are houses in the background.
Biography

George Henry White

  • Politics
Portrait of Bridget "Biddy" Mason
Biography

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

  • Women's Voices
Photograph of Workers at the Pacific Parachute Company
Community Story

The Pacific Parachute Company

  • Military
Photograph of Homer G. Philips hospital and students
Community Story

Homer G. Phillips Hospital and School of Nursing

  • Science
Illustration of school building
Biography

The First African American Physician

  • Science
An illustration of a school house on fire. Some onlookers cheer, while others run towards help.
Historic Event

The Memphis Massacre

  • Politics
A black and white photograph of two soldiers, in military fatigues, perched on the edge of the windshield, boots resting on the jeep's hood.
Community Story

Black Power and 'The Black G.I.'

  • Music
Black and White photograph of female African American students seated in a classroom.  They appear to be sewing/  There are several women standing toward the chalkboard in the rear of the class.  There is one sewing machine in the foreground, being used by a woman.  A woman stands in the front of the class next to a dressed mannequin wearing a long-sleeved blouse and long skirt.
Historic Event

W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition

  • Science
A photograph of an African American woman washing laundry outdoors in a yard. Clothes hand behind her on a line.
Historic Event

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

  • Women's Voices
Black and White Photograph of standing students
Biography

Vivian Carter Mason

  • Organizations
Cover image of "Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South"
Biography

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

  • Women's Voices
The inside title page is covered in decorative floral and leaf scroll work. The title reads, [ILLUMINATED / DIARY / for / 1868.]. Underneath is an illustrated image of the sea with a mast ship. The publisher below reads, [PUBLISHED BY / TAGGARD & THOMPSON, No. 29 CORNHILL, / BOSTON.]
Biography

The Remarkable Rollin Sisters

  • Women's Voices
Photograph of Louis Manigault, Jr. in a field
Present to Past

Land as Legacy

  • Slavery
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation
Present to Past

Education for All

  • Slavery
A real photo postcard of a group of military service men and women taken at the YMCA camp near Chambery, France, during World War I. The image depicts five women standing in a row on a lawn, with four men crouched in a row in front of them. Addie Waites Hunton is in the center of the back row; the other women and men are unidentified. In the background is a large building with a double staircased entrance. A temporary sign reading [Y.M.C.A.] has been placed on the portico at the top of the stairs. Other individuals are visible along the top and bottom of the stairs. The verso has printing reading [CARTE POSTALE] with spaces for [Correspondance] and [Adresse] and a horse and horsehead mark for the publisher Guilleminot. The postcard has not been sent, but there is an inscription across the back by hand in brown ink reading [From Sgt. Thomas, who / was on leave at colored, / Y.M.C.A. at Chamberry / France]. There is an inscription by a different hand in graphite above the [Adresse] label reading [(ALFRED JACK THOMAS)].
Present to Past

Military Service

  • Politics
People waiting in line to vote
Present to Past

Legislating Rights

  • Slavery