African American History Month

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Selected Images

Ray Charles. Drawing by Anita Kunz

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

National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph by Richard Karchmer

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Souvenir program autographed by Marian Anderson

Promotional and souvenir program autographed by Marian Anderson

Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform

Photographic print of Robert Scurlock holding a camera

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

Photograph of students in a science lab

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

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

Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair

[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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Martin Luther King press conference

Martin Luther King press conference / [MST].

Official portrait of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office

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

Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

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

[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: Justice Thurgood Marshall

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

Portrait of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall 1947

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

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

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

Susie King Taylor

Susie King Taylor

Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait

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

Interior Secretary Ickes congratulates Marian Anderson at concert. 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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The Black Patti, Madame M. Sissieretta Jones

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her race.
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee
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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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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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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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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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John Sharper
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Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia

Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia
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Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp

Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp
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Life in Camp Cameron

Life in Camp Cameron
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Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait

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

Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune
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Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.
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A slave-coffle passing the Capitol

A slave-coffle passing the Capitol
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Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon

Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon.
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Map of Liberia compiled from data on file in the office of the American Colonization Society

Map of Liberia
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Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry

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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The storming of the engine house by the U.S. Marines, Nov. 5, 1859

The storming of the engine house by the U.S. Marines
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Sale of slaves in the rotunda, New Orleans

Sale of slaves in the rotunda, New Orleans.
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