In April 1983, lawyer and politician Harold Washington was the first African American to be elected as Mayor of Chicago. Blue bumper sticker with...
Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, is a public historically black university . The debate trophy has a dark brown plastic base with metal...
The Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, was the only hospital for African Americans in the city from 1937 until 1979, when the city...
Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City. Skin tone pointe shoes for black, Asian and mixed...
The March Against Fear demonstration during the period of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA, was a walk by African-American activist James...
The world of entertainment, like so many other areas of life, was segregated along racial lines during this period of US history. An orange admission...
Full score for the opera, "The Song of Hiawatha Op. 30", written by the Anglo-African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . "The Song of Hiawatha Op....
The 371st and 372nd U.S. Infantry Regiments were segregated African American regiments, nominally a part of the 93rd Division, that served in World...
Starfleet uniform worn by African-American actor Nichelle Nichols as the character Lt. Uhura on the television show Star Trek. The kiss scene between...
The Million Man March - a large gathering of African-American men in Washington, D.C., took place on 16 October 1995. It was called by Louis...
The New York Black Yankees baseball team belonged to the Negro National League, one of several Negro leagues which were established during the era of...
African-American sportsman Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers basketball teams. Jersey worn and...
African-American astronaut Charles Frank Bolden Jr. Flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He was also a NASA administrator and a United States Marine...
In 1956 Althea Gibson became the first African-American to win a Grand Slam title . The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals....
Round red, blue and off-white poster enclosing a smaller circular vignette of an African American family with the caption "A Clerk in Negro Business...
The Black Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasised racial pride and the need to promote the collective interests and values of...
Black jacket probably worn by an African-American soldier during the Vietnam war. The back features discolored white embroidery. Image of a fist...
Prohibition of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States began in 1920 and lasted until 1933. The Cotton...
Green pin-back button belonging to African-American poet and teacher Abiodun Oyewole . The sentiment expresses the necessity of providing a teaching...
Enslaved African Americans, leased out by their slave owners, mined sandstone from local quarries and built the United States Capitol, the White...
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the nine African-American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957. She...
Charles P. Stinsons minstrel credits include working with Callinder's Georgia Minstrels, the World's Minstrels, and Harvey and Frohman's Minstrel...
Edmonia Lewis is one of the most important American sculptors of the 19th century. The free-born child of an African American man and a Chippewa...
Digital heart rhythm monitoring was developed for the purpose of detecting heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients by pioneering African...
Grey pinstriped dress and jacket designed by Arthur McGee, mid 20th-late 20th century. In 1957, Arthur Lee McGee was the first African American...
Copy of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26 dated June 27, 1856. The paper is printed on a single bi-folded sheet of paper...
Inkwell with a glass base and a brass top belonging to James Baldwin , African-American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. This was...
Bentwood armchair purportedly belonging to a black church in Tulsa that was looted during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The chair has curved arm...
Handmade placard that reads GIVE / ENOUGH! / REPARATIONS / NOW! on one side. On 31 May-1 June 1 1921, mobs of White residents, many of them...
Tecsonic boombox with a light brown metal cover used by Public Enemy. The boombox has a handle at the top, collapsible antenna, six speakers, a...
Circular pinback button featuring an image of a Marshall 'Major' Taylor dressed in a blue and red striped shirt. The image is at the center of the...
The Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, best known for its African-American cosmetics and hair care products, was founded in 1910 by Madam C....
Purple silk banner with gold fringe and the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs' motto, 'LIFTING / AS / WE CLIMB' painted in large gold...
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. A badge with a...
African-American hip hop DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore , is widely credited as the inventor of the scratching technique. Vestax PDX-2000 turntable made...
Anderson, Hollywood's first African American female makeup artist, filed a class action lawsuit for being discriminated against because of her race....
Colorful block striped jacket designed by Willi Smith for WilliWear Limited. A. The long sleeve jacket has a v-neck and a notched lapel collar. There...
Wooden hat stand base and form painted white. The base is circular with one groove carved into the top of the base. A turned wooden dowel is screwed...
Founded in 1904 as the One-Cent Savings and Trust Company Bank by African-American minister and businessman Richard Henry Boyd, the Citizens Savings...
Burgundy leather left handed boxing glove with tan cotton tie. A white tag on top of the wrist reads Ken-Wel / BRAND in blue text. The bottom of...
Solid clay brick, a medium beige in color, with uneven edges and surfaces, taken from the brick house built built and kept by Nelson Davis and...
The purpose of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. A paper...
African-American artistic gymnast Gabby Douglas is the first American gymnast ever to win both the team and individual all-around gold at the same...
Round, pink, pin-back button with black lettering reads. 'I Believe Anita Hill.' Lawyer and academic Anita Hill became a national figure in 1991 when...
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African-American fighter and bomber pilots who fought in World War II. A Type A-2 leather Tuskegee...
Metal and plastic pinback button produced during the campaign of African-American minister, civil rights leader and social activist Channing E....
Hammond B-3 electric organ. The organ is covered in black vinyl and trimmed with silver roping. Stitched on the back of the organ in red vinyl and...
African-American Muslim minister and civil rights activist Malcolm X gave speeches at Mosque No. 7, in Harlem, New York. Wollensak Stereo-tape...
Cream silk faille dress with embroidered floral appliqué decorations designed by Ann Lowe. The dress has a bodice with cap sleeves, a scoop neck...
First edition copy of the memoir and antislavery book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. The...
