Selected Images

John Lewis speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

[John Lewis speaking at a meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.]

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Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

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Ray Charles. Drawing by Anita Kunz, [1982].

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Promotional and souvenir program autographed by Marian Anderson

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Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform

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Photographic print of Robert Scurlock holding a camera. Photograph by: Scurlock Studio.

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Photograph of African American students in a science lab

Photograph of students in a science lab. Created by: Lewis Wickes Hine

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Abstract image of an African American girl wearing a red dress, seated in front of a window.

“Girl in Red.” Lithograph by Robert Blackburn, [1950]. ©The Robert Blackburn Trust. Used with permission.

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[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York] (Library of Congress)
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Head-and-shoulders portrait of Martin Luther King leaning on a lectern. 1964

Martin Luther King press conference / [MST].

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Official portrait of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Dec. 6, 2012. Official White House pPhoto by Pete Souza.

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Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress.
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[Rosa Parks seated in the front of a public bus, likely a staged photograph representing the end of segregated buses and her role in the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to1956]
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Official portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

Official portraits of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Thurgood Marshall

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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet at Carnegie Hall 1947

[Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947] [graphic]

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18th century engraving of servant Phillis Wheatley seated at a table with quill pen and paper.

Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston

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Susie King Taylor

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Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length seated portrait

Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front

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Singer Marian Anderson being congratulated by Interior Secretary Ickes at a concert in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1939

Interior Secretary Ickes congratulates Marian Anderson at concert. Washington, D.C., April 9. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who introduced Marian Anderson at her open-air concert at the shrine of the president who freed her race from slavery, congratulating her after the concert to which an estimated 75,000 listened
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Poster of singer Madame M. Sissieretta Jones, known as The Black Patti.

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her race.
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Photograph of African American woman in red headscarf and blue coveralls working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber with a hand drill. 1943

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee
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Tintype photograph of unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver, Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri

Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri
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Tintype photograph of unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters

Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters
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Tintype photograph of unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with arm resting on table

Unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with arm resting on table
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Tintype photograph of unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber

Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber in front of painted backdrop showing landscape
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Photograph of African American Soldier John Sharper in Union army uniform.

John Sharper
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Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia
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Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp
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Life in Camp Cameron
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Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap
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Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune
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Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.
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Wood engraving of slaves wearing handcuffs and shackles passing the United States Capitol, around 1815.

A slave-coffle passing the Capitol
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Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon.
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Map of Liberia from the office of the American Colonization Society. 1845

Map of Liberia 1845
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Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran
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A segregated drinking fountain. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A drinking fountain
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Wood engraving of the storming of the engine house by the U.S. Marines during John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry. November 5, 1859

The storming of the engine house by the U.S. Marines
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Engraving. Sale of slaves in the rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sale of estates, pictures and slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans.
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