Current Traveling Inventory

Slavery (1400 - 1863)
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Reconstruction (1863 - 1877)
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- Charleston Newspaper (Slave & Runaway Slave Ad) Oct. 25, 1834
- Charleston Newspaper (Slave & Runaway Slave Ad) Dec. 8, 1834
- Slave Document 1855 (Judgement against slave holders for $$ for negroes)
- 1853 TN Supreme Court appeal for bond secured with slaves
- Billing of Slave Labor in Alabama after the war 1867
- Deposition from a civil case regarding the beating of a slave
- Slave transport collar with three (3) bells
- 1801 HANDWRITTEN ESTATE APPRAISAL NELSON CO.
- Alabama Estate Paper with Slave Valuation
- Dred Scott Portrait
- Joseph Rainey Photograph (SC State Senator, 41st Congress of the US)
- Alonzo Ransier Photograph (SC State Senator, 43rd US Congress of the US)
​- John Willis Menard Louisiana Congressional Representative Newspaper
- J.A. Palmer Aiken SC "CABINS" Orig. Photo on Stock card 1874

Post-Reconstruction (1878-1950)
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Civil Rights (1954 - 1968)
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- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Working Card)
- Sheet Music - Ain’t Misbehavin Sheet Music 1929
- Marian Anderson Signed Program 1951
- Sheet Music - Underneath the Harlem Moon 1932
- Sheet Music - Dapper Dan 1921
- NAACP Fundraising Card 1940’s
- Cast Iron Lawn Jockey
- The Negro Progress Newspaper - Macon, Georgia - December 1947
- Pullman Porter Photograph 1929
- Dixie Labor Agency Hiring Flyer (Colored Help our Specialty) St. Louis, MO 1926
- Dixie Labor Agency Hiring Inquiry Letters 1926
- Pullman Porter Handbook 1952
- Pullman Porter Ad 1945
- A.Philip Randolph Heritage Stamp
- Book - The Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro 1897
- Pullman Porter Hat Badge and Uniform Button
- Pullman Porter Union Cards (Five (5) Cards) 1947
- Segregated Class Photograph 1933
- Book - The First Book of Negroes by Langston Hughes 1952
- Matchbook Hotel Barlow - Hope, Arkansas 1930’s
- Aunt Sally's Creole Candy Box (On the site of the old slave block)
- Newspaper Oscar DePriest 1st Black in Congress - Red Wing Daily Eagle - 1928
- Blanche K. Bruce - Signed Land Deed DC 1890 (1st to serve a full term as senator)
- Booker T. Washington Signed Letter (Alabama Legislature) 1907
- Frederick Douglass Signature on Deed 1886
- Judge Macon B. Allen 1st Black Licensed Attorney in the US 1878 Estate
- Paul Robeson & Lawrence Brown signed program
- Anderson County - Colored Fair Ticket
- Marian Anderson Farewell Tour Flyer 1964-1965
- Various Product/Crate Labels and Advertisements with Racist Overtones
- Circa 1880 Press Photo of former slave Louisa Walter Hogan - Texas
- 1942 Jane Bolin 1st AA Women to Graduate from Yale Law (Board of NAACP and NUL)
- Wheat High School Glee Club Minstrel Show
- Negro History Week Poster 
- 1921 Tuskegee University fundraising letter - Robert Morton 
- 1945 Voting Restrictions in the 13 Southern States Report
- 1921 Tuskegee Institute Principal Fundraising Letter 
- 1939 Virginia State College Commencement Announcement Petersburg VA
- My Black Dolly Poem
- 1921 Prairie View Normal and industrial College letter and tuition receipts
- Blanche K. Bruce - Signed Land Deed DC 1892 (1st to serve a full term as senator)
- 1941 Thomas "FATS" Waller Piano Folio "BOOGIE WOOGIE" 
- April 1,1939 Sat. Eve. Post Magazine cover
- 1921 Fifth Annual Minstrel Show Presented by the Chittenango, NY Citizens Club 
- Tuskeegee Choir Series Chorus Book (William Dawson)
- Pullman Porter Rules Sheet Music
- Susie Monroe Campaign Poster 1950
- 1935 Porgy and Bess Sheet Music
- 1917 Lee County Colored Fair Ticket - Marianna, Arkansas
- December 1946 Color Magazine  - Madam CJ Walker Article and Ads
- October, 1932 issue of “The Southern Workman” published by the Hampton Institute
- 1948 - Joe Louis How To Box Book 
- 1948 - How Come Christmas Book
​- 1935 Amos 'n' Andy Radio Episode AMOS' WEDDING Script Premium w/ Mailer
- 1903 Stereoscopic Card - Children at Gate (SC)
- 1897 Stereoscopic Card - Picking Cotton (Md.)
- October 1932 - The Southern Workman
- Negro Digest - April 1945 
- 1947 Prairie View vs. Wilberforce First Annual Fruit Bowl Game
- World War I Recruitment Poster - No Slacker
- 1939 Wire Photo Eleanor Roosevelt speech Mary McLeod Bethune
- 1944 Press Photo Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, 1st US Army Negro Gen.
- 1953 Press Photo Lois Lippman 1st Negro Secretary at the White House
- Negro Digests (1948). October
- Negro Digests (1948). November
- Negro Digests (1948). December
- 1950 NAACP conference Howard University, Washington DC, 1950
- 1892 Stereo View Card of AFRICAN AMERICANS PICKING COTTON DATED 1892 
- Undated Stereo View Card of AFRICAN AMERICANS PICKING COTTON
- Opportunity Journal of Negro Life Winter Issue 1945 General Benjamin O Davis
- 1931, T. S. Denison & Company, Denison's Blackface Plays, "A Black Recruit"
- 1923 T. S. Denison & Company, Denison's Blackface Plays,  "Suds and Duds"
- Keystone Stereoview card Circa 1900 #9506 “We’s done all dis s’mornin” Cotton
- LIFE MAGAZINE November 18, 1946 Howard University Feature
- World War I Recruiting Poster - No Slacker
-  NAACP Bulletin Newspaper May 1943
- August 12, 1952 - Press Photo - Integration at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina
- 1952 Senate report: Employment & Economic Status of Negroes in United States
- 1934 - Press Photo - DNA Memorial Hall Protest against lynching 
- 1952 - Press Photo - Beverly Dodge, Negro student not allowed on school trip
- 1953 Press Photo - Mississippi Senator against Civil Rights 
- December 1948 Spelman College - Christmas Carol Concert
- 1943 Press Photo - USO Negro Soldiers
- 1938 Press Photo Mardon Walker And Atty Donald L Hellewell Civil Right Jailed
- Angela Davis FBI Wanted Poster 1970
- 1968 Hubert Humphrey Campaign Brochure
- Marian Anderson Signed Letter 1962
- Press Photo - Edward Brooke Victory Speech 1966
- SNCC Student Voice Newspaper March 3, 1964
- 1964 Church Bombing Press Photo, Chase,  Louisianna
- 1962 Harvey Gantt Press Photo
- 1965 Selma, Alabama Marchers Singing, Press Photo
- 1967 Thurgood Marshall - Press Photo
- 1966 Julian Bond at Statue - Press Photo
- 1966 Chicago Civil Rights March - Press Photo
- 1955 Duke Ellington - Press Photo
- Langston Hughes “The Prodigal Son” Review Card 1965
- Oct. 1960 Saturday Evening Post Display Card on Negroes
- Southern Pacific Railroad “Whites Only” sign
- 1952-1958 Jackie Robinson Business Card
- April 10, 1971 Black Panther Party Newspaper
- August 1970 Tan Magazine - Aretha Franklin
- 1966 Malcolm X Autobiography Advertisement
- 1965 & 1970 NAACP Membership Pins
- June 28, 1963 Medgar Evers Life Magazine
- April 12, 1969 Martin Luther King, Jr. Life Magazine Death
- April 12, 1969 Martin Luther King, Jr. Life Magazine Funeral
- December 1, 1957 NAACP Harlem Fundraiser
- 1959 Sidney Poitier “A Raisin in the Sun” Playbill
- 1968  NAACP Youth Annual Report
- 1962 Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis Playbill “Purlie Victorious”
- 1964 Apollo Theatre Emcee Notes “Slappy White & Moms Mabley”
- 1971 Apollo Theatre Press Photo
- Dec. 1963 letter from Dora McDonald Martin Luther King's Personal Secretary
- 1961 Ralph Bunche Signed Letter of Regret for Joining Board
- 1960-1966 “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” LP set
- 1968 Ebony Picture Biography - Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1968 Black Writers Conference - Philadelphia, PA.
- 1969 Alpha Kappa Alpha Women in Politics Booklet
- March 23, 1968 Amsterdamn News - Percy Sutton US Senate Run
- 7/4/1968  CORE James Farmer Press Photo
- 1967 James Meredith Shooting - Press Photo
- July 8, 1963 Senator Allen Ellender letter attacking the civil rights movement
- March 12, 1969 Sen. Allen Ellender Press Photo - Hunger/Nutrition Committee
- October 13, 1969 Press Photo Singer Odetta - Civil Rights Singer
- October 1, 1971 Dr. Ralph Bunch Press Photo
- August 13, 1971 Sadie Alexander Press Photo (1st AA women 1921 UPenn Law)
- March 7, 1965 Photo “2 Minute Warning”  Bloody Sunday March to Montgomery
- Negro Voting Picketting Photo
- August 1967 Negro Digest:  Tenant Issues
- 1968 Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Pin
- LIFE Magazine September 11, 1970 The Making of a Fugitive Angela Davis
- 1971 SIGNED PEARL BAILEY TALKING TO MYSELF 1ST ED
- 1975 SIGNED PEARL BAILEY DUEY’S TALE MOTHERHOOD CHILDHOOD 1ST ED
- 1961 Press Photo Wilma Rudolph Olympic star named AP Woman Athlete of Year
- 1955 HBCU Fisk Univ vs Howard University Homecoming Football Program
- 1961 SNCC Freedom in the Air Vinyl Record
- 1972 Shirley Chisholm Presidential poster with Ann Arbor, MI Field Office
- Martin Luther King Necklace 30" Chain
- 1970s NAACP Brock Peters Membership Pamphlet
- Jet Magazine Feb. 20, 1969 Frederick Douglass
- 1962 CORE Brochure
- Georgia Gilmore Obituary NYT (1990)
- Civil Rights panel discussion SUNY Albany - Press Photo
- 1963 Press Photo Civil Rights/Alabama - Press Photo
- June 28, 1965 NAACP Conference - Press Photo
- 1969 C.B. King Civil Rights Attorney - Press Photo 
- March 9, 1965 Johnson C. Smith Student Protest - Press Photo
- July 26, 1967 MLK Jr. Chicago Riots - Press Photo
- April 6, 1968 Washington Post - Aftermath of the assassination of MLK Jr.
- 1965 Int. Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters Convention Guest Badge
- 1969 Rev. Jesse Jackson Patrolmen's League -  Press Photo
- 1971 Rev. Walter Fauntroy Election Victory - Press Photo
- 1964-1965 Johnson C. Smith University “The Bull“ yearbook 
- 1968 Hubert Humphrey Rally Flyer - BROWNS & BLACKS, GROOVE ON DOWN
- 1971 Walter Fauntroy letter confirming attendance at conference 
- 1971 House Representative Charles Diggs, Rangal and Stokes- Press Photo
- July 1, 1957 NAACP Conference - Press Photo 
- July 31, 1969 Whitney Young - National Urban League It’s up to Whites - Press Photo
- March 22, 1957 - The Fort Worth Mind Black Newspaper
- 1970 WATERMELON MAN MELVIN VAN PEEPLES Original One sheet
- Summer: 1966 - Journal of Negro Education
- Spring 1970 - Journal of Negro Education
- Summer 1971 - Journal of Negro Education
- July 27, 1966 Mississippi Civil Rights March - Press Photo
- April 4, 1969 Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young - Press Photo
- July 7, 1969 Charles Evers, Confederate Statue  - Press Photo
- January 27, 1966 President Johnson & Constance Motley, Press Photo
- August 31, 2966 - Lucas, Robinson & Oitto Illinois Housing March - Press Photo 
- July 11, 1963 - Jet Magazine - Medgar Evers death and Widow
- February 25,1965 - Jet Magazine -  Martin Luther King inside Alabama
- February 25, 1964 CORE Goes Shopping - Press Photo
- July 26, 1967  Martin Luther King, Jr.  Press Photo Lawndale
- October 1968 Coretta Scott King Signed Letter about assassination
-  Alpha Kappa Alpha hand carved paddle Spring 1956
- Delta Sigma Theta 1953-1955 Regional Report
- Boston Herald - March 11, 1965 - Selma March Coverage
​- Boston Herald - March 22, 1965 - Selma March Coverage
- 1960’s NAACP Membership Station Poster
- June 17, 1963 Gloria Richardson Press Photo 
- Sept. 28, 1968 Amsterdamn News
-  Johnson C. Smith Student Protest - March 10, 2965 Press Photo
-  W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Program February 23, 1964 Carnegie Hall, NYC
-  The Sun-Reporter
-  The Sun-Reporter
-  The Sun-Reporter
-  The Sun-Reporter
-  The Sun-Reporter
-  The Sun-Reporter
- 1956 Afro-American Life Insurance Building Dedication Program
- 1968 Press Photo Atty. Cecil Poole as 1st Negro federal judge in MS
- 1964 Press Photo Carl T. Rowan 1st Negro to sit on National Security Council
- 1964 Press Photo Harold Franklin 1st Negro registered at Auburn University
- 1964 Press Photo FBI Agent Examines Debris from in Bombing McComb, MS
- 1964 Press Photo Negro School Integration Notasulga, Alabama
- 1957 Press Photo Daisy Bates Little Rock 9  Little Rock, AR
- 1956 Press Photo Univ. of Alabama Reinstatement A. Lucy,  Thurgood Marshall
- 1960 Press Photo Univ. of Indiana Protest 1st Negro SGA Pres. Thomas Atkins
- 1963 Press Photo Jacquelyne Faye Evans, first negro honor student Little Rock, AR
- 1956 Press Photo McClure Negro Hired by Mail Then Fired School Controversy
- 1962 Press Photo Leroy Johnson, Georgia's first African-American senator
- 1965 Press Photo House of Rep. Harlem Street Meeting Adam Clayton Powell
- 1970 Press Photo Dr. Helen Edmonds National President of Links, Inc.
- 1963 Press Photo Anna Hedgeman Only Woman on March on Washington Comm.
- 1970 Press Photo Alexander Hall - Jackson University Massacre
- 1956 Press Photo National Guardsmen at high school
- 1969 Press Photo Mrs. Coretta King widow slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr flowers
- 1962 Press Photo Deans Warner Wick & John P. Netherton At CORE Meeting
- 1966 Press Photo 1st Black Supermarket Checker Working in Birmingham, AL
- 1967 Press Photo NAACP Youth March Across Mason Dixon Line for Fair Housing
- 1971 Press Photo 1st Negro Woman Ambassador Patricia Harris Howard Univ. Prof.
- 1969 Press Photo Memorial Services for Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1951 Press Photo Edith Sampson and Eleanor Roosevelt School Integration Policy
- 1969  Press Photo Shirley Chisholm, John Conyers, Charles Diggs Senate Committee
- 1970 Press Photo Charles Diggs, Shirley Chisholm Shadow Committee (CBC)
- 1967 Press Photo Dr. Martin Luther Jr. supporters gathered at Atlanta Airport
- 1952 Press Photo Julian Steele, only registered Negro voter wins election
- 1966 Press Photo MS officers moving whites away from negros during protest
- 1968 Press Photo Greensboro Frye 1st Negro elected to North Carolina House
- 1956 Press Photo National Guardsmen at KY high school order during desegregation
- 1966 Press Photo Robert C Henry elected Springfield Mayor 1st Negro of Major City
- 1974 Press Photo Pres. Ford,Maynard Jackson Atlanta mayor, Dorothy Height NCNW
- 1963 Press Photo Birmingham, Alabama State Patrolman Riots
- LIFE Magazine - July 28 1967 - NEWARK NJ: THE PREDICTABLE INSURRECTION
- Life Magazine August 27 1965: Arson and Street War in Los Angeles
- Meharry School of Medicine 91st Commencement 1966 Announcement Tennessee
- 1960's NAACP - Boycott Stag Beer Flyer - Segregation - Blacks Against Stag Beer
- 1956 Afro-American Life Insurance Company building dedication JACKSONVILLE FL
- 1963 Black Americana Institute on Cultural Patterns of Newcomers to Chicago
-1967 EBONY Magazine  "Negro Youth in America Anxious, Angry & Aware"
- LIFE Magazine: The Black Muslims May 31,1963
- NAACP in Action Report for 196 Book with Photos
- BLACK PANTHERS Anti-Vietnam FLYER Civil Rights Protest circa 1969
- 1964 THE KENNEDY YEARS AND THE NEGRO 1st Ed. Book
- Jet Magazine March 5, 1958  Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
- Jet Magazine March 20,1958
- Jet Magazine May 28, 1958
- Jet Magazine December 31, 1958
- Michigan Chronicle Newspaper August 29, 1959
- Muhammad Speaks Newspaper July 5, 1968
- JET Magazine - August, 22 1968
- Crisis Magazine August-September 1960
- Crisis Magazine October 1960
- Crisis Magazine November 1960
- Crisis Magazine October 1960
- JET Magazine - May, 18 1972
- JET Magazine - April 20, 1961 - Charlotte, NC Gifted Student Cover
- JET Magazine - March 28, 1965
- JET Magazine - July 15, 1965
- “This Family Will Not Be Bussed” window sign - Monte Geralds
- LIFE Magazine - October 7, 1957 - US Troops take over in Arkansas
- The Black Scholar Journal: State of Black America September 1977
- Muhammad Speaks Newspaper July 5, 1968
 - Time Magazine - Harlem - July 31, 1964 
- MOVEMENT Newspaper - March 1969
- 1972 Press Photo Chicago Rev Jesse Jackson heads Operation Breadbasket
- 1965 Press Photo - 1st Black to Register to Vote
- 1972 Press Photo - Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
- 1964 Press Photo - NAACP leaders discuss strategy at City Hall
- 1969 Press Photo - Student protest at Southern University in New Orleans
- 1970 Press Photo - Florida's 1st black Trooper, Alphonso Lofton
- 1960 Press Photo - Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP
- 1969 Press Photo - Clifford Alexander Nixon
- 1970 Press Photo - Black dolls
- 1973 Press Photo - Miss Iowa, Cheryl Browne 1st Black to compete in Miss America pageant
- 1964 Press Photo - Sidney Poitier, Oscar award winner
- 1961 Press Photo - Dillard University Graduates
- 1967 Press Photo - United States Supreme Court Justices
- 1969 Press Photo - United Black Students press conference University of Miami
- 1965 Southern Regional Council - Special Report:  A City Slum Poor People & Problems 1st ed.
- 1967 Press Photo - Senator Barbara Jordan, Curtis Grave, Houston Joseph
- 1968 Press Photo - Fannie Jones - 1st statewide elective office - court clerk
- 1966 Press Photo - Mrs. Sinaloa Mike Negroes Alabama
- 1965 Press Photo - Governor at all negro high school Jonesboro
- 1964 Press Photo - Spokesman for Negro leaders speak to Governors
- 1971 Press Photo - Arthur Fletcher speaks to president about the 1st Black Pres.
- 1964 Press Photo - Ellender Civil Rights Voting Strategy
- 1969 Press Photo - Ferris State College Students After Racial Incident
- 1963 Press Photo - Henrietta Monteith Black Girl admitted to White school
- 1961 Press Photo - A.P. Tureaud and Jack Greenburg NAACP in LA case for schools to be integrated or not be in session
- 1963 Press Photo - Arthur Sprigarn, white NAACP leader objects to the March on Washington
- 1965 Press Photo - Thurgood Marshall Lyndon Johnson
- 1967 Press Photo - Attorney General Ramsey Clark
- 1966 Press Photo - Senators Byrd & Ellender Eastland
- 1963 Press Photo - President of Univ. of AL speaks on civil unrest
- 1957 Press Photo - North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin
- 1967 Press Photo - Convicted of Killing 3 Civil Rights Workers
- 1986 Press Photo - Spiver Gordon Voter outreach sample ballot 
- 1961 Press Photo - Wilma Rudolph Runner Olympian
- 1962 Press Photo - Rep. Allan Jones denounces “Reverse Freedom Rides”
- 1969  Press Photo - Coretta Scott King College Photo
- 1962 Press Photo - NAACP Clarence Laws Speaks on Fairness for Blacks
- 1965 Press Photo - John Conyers opposes Judge Nomination
- 1963 Press Photo - Rep. Charles Diggs speaks about bombing of NAACP bldg.
- Press Photo Negro Leaders TG Neucom, H Hill and J Tolbert in Hollywood
- 1968 Press Photo - Rev. Arthur Brazier rallying South Side Chicago Negroes
- 1968 Press Photo - Army Captain Riley Leroy Pitts Oklahoma
- 195? Press Photo - Authurnia Lucy University of Alabama 1st Negro
- 1964 Press Photo - Six Leaders of Negro Organizations met with Pres. Johnson
- 1967 Press Photo - First Negro Michigan Mayors
- 1964 Press Photo - Negro Leaders meeting with American Society of Editors
- 1968 Press Photo Arthur Shores,1st Negro city councilman in Chicago
- 1968 Press Photo Negro Nominated President Political Committee
 -1962 Press Photo Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. negro
 - 1968 Press Photo President Johnson White House Cabinet Thurgood Marshall
- 1965 Press Photo Martha Carole Kusic Jessie Winifred McQueen Charged Unlawful
- 1968 Press Photo Hosea Williams with MLK Jr. Suitcase
- 1969 Press Photo Charles Coles Diggs American U.S Civil
- 1965 Press Photo First Negroes Elected in Public Office
- 1961 Press Photo Jesse H. queen Civil Rights Attorney
- 1966 Press Photo West End Rioting Negroes Police Armed
- April 1965 Southern Regional Council RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE SOUTHERN FEDERAL COURTS

Post Civil Rights (1969-1977)
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Current (Post 1977)
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QR-PCR146- 1976 Navy Recruitment Advertisement
- August 1973 Ebony Magazine “Black Middle Class”
- 1975 Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther Party Press Photo
- 1970 Charles Rangel Press Photo - Harlem
- 1970 Census Flyer - Coalition for a Black Count
- 1973 Miles Davis “On the Corner” Advertisement
- 1976 Howard Univ. Conference for Afro-American Writers
- June 13, 1974 Senator Edward Brooke Letter - Watergate
- Miss Black America Television Promotional Advertisement
- 1977 “For Colored Girls” Playbill
- 1979 Andrew Young United Nations Letter defending the Carter Administration
- “Hustling and Other Hard Work” Book by Bettylou Valentine
- NAACP Membership Cards 1978/2011
- October 17, 1969 “Midnight Concert in Harlem” Jazz
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Robert Smalls
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Martin Luther King Jr.
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Harriet Tubman
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Frederick Douglass
- Golden Legacy Comic Book -  Benjamin Banneker
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Matthew Henson
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Toussaint L’ouverture
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Crispus Attucks
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Joseph Cinque’ and the Amistad Mutiny
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Ancient African Kingdoms
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Black Cowboys
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - The Black Inventors Latimer and Woods
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Alexander Pushkin
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Alexander Dumas and Family
- Golden Legacy Comic Book - Men of Action: White, Wilkins and Marshall
- The Soul of Christmas Book - Johnson Publishing Co.
- 1970 Lydia Paper Doll Book
- 1978 Fannie Lou Hamer Children's Book
- Time Magazine June 17, 1976 - Middle Class Blacks,  Making it in America
- S is for Soul Sister ABC Black Cards
- March 25, 1977 Press Photo - Andrew Young - United Nations
- Press Photo - Shirley Chisolm Dillard Univ. Graduation
- January 16,1973  Press Photo - Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm
- Wheeler Airlines Travel Schedule
- Wheeler Airlines Ticket Jacket
- Shirley Chisolm Presidential Campaign Button 
- Black Enterprise Magazine, August 1972
- Black Enterprise Magazine, October 1975
- Black Enterprise Magazine, September 1975
- Black Enterprise Magazine, August 1975
- 1973 Afro-American Life Insurance Co. Advertising Items  (Jacksonville, FL)
- September 1972 BLACK SPORTS Magazine Tommie Smith Black Power
-1978 Alvin Ailey City Dance Theater Souvenir Book - Boston University
- 1976 Harlem Globetrotters 50th Anniversary Magazine
- 1973 Harlem Globetrotters Program
- 1971 The Strengths of Black Families: A National Urban League Research Study
- 1977 - ROOTS Trade print Ad - Alex Haley
- 1973 - Wattstax Jesse Jackson - Press Photo 
- 1972 - Cheyney State College Beacon yearbook 
- 1975 - Civil Rights James Farmer Chicago - Press Photo
- May 25, 1970 Chicago Defender Newspaper - Final Edition
- MLK Jr. Greatest Speeches Album - Johnnie Walker Marketing Piece
- 1976 Press Photo Barbara Jordan Democratic Convention Keynote Speech
- 1973 Press Photo Floyd McKissick Civil Rights Activist points Soul City Housing
- 1976 Press Photo American First Lady Betty Ford with Judith Jamison Alvin Ailey
- Black Americana Jet Magazine 1974 Vietnam War Navy 1st Black Woman Pilot
- 1973 Press Photo - Crowd & Band Marshall Park , Charlotte, NC
- 1976 Press Photo - Laney School, Union County North Carolina
- 1976 Press Photo - Laney School, Union County North Carolina
- May 20, 1970 Press Photo - Ralph Abernathy Perry, GA. to Atlanta March
- June 7, 1972 Press Photo Lovely Miss Black America, North Carolina
- 1974 Press Photo - Cicely Tyson holds her Emmy award
- 1978 Press Photo - Gabrielle McDonald,  TX 1st black federal judge
- 1974 Press Photo - Mrs. Christine Ferris and MLK Sr. at MLK Jr. Funeral
- 1975  Press Photo - Pretrial Motions Joan Little Case
- 1969  Press Photo - Rep. Shirley Chisholm at NY Rally​
- 1975  Press Photo - Shirley Chisholm Calls for Federal Investigation
- 1969 Press Photo - Rep. Adam Clayton Powell joins Vietnam protest
- 1973 Press Photo - Thousands Rally for Social Programs
- 1970 Press Photo Fred Gray Negro legislator Alabama
- 1922 Carol Mosley Braun - US Senate Poster
- October 19, 1988 Charles Rangel NY Congressman Letter
- March 1980 Ebony Magazine - Sammy Davis Junior
- September 1980 Ebony Magazine - The Jeffersons
- November 5, 2008 NY Times - "Obama Win" Newspaper
- ”We’ve got his back”. Obama voter registration poster
- 1993 “Black Americans of Achievement” Game
- June 4, 2008, New York Post - Obama Nomination
- January 20, 2009 The Examiner, Inauguration Guide
- Barack Obama Inauguration Committee Invitation
- USA Today Barack Obama Special Edition - The Historic Journey
- November 5, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times - Mr. President 
- Jan. 21, 2009 USA Today - Obama - Dawn of a New Era Newspaper
- January 19, 2009 USA Today - Obama Topic Newspaper
- Time Magazine Pictorial Book - President Obama
- December 1980 Ebony Magazine - page 72 - CBC 10th Anniversary 
- November 5, 1992 Chicago SUN times - Carol Mosley Braun Senate Win
- Colin Powell Signed Autobiography 1995
- African American Discovery Board Game
- 1988 New York Students for Jesse Jackson Poster
- Chicago Transit Authority BLACK HISTORY MONTH POSTER Louis Armstrong 
- John Lewis Georgia U.S. Representative Official Business Card - Democratic Whip
- February 15, 2011 - Obama presents John Lewis 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom 
- 1988 DNC JESSE JACKSON campaign pin pinback button
- 1983 THURGOOD MARSHALL memorial program - NYC
- October 16, 1995 Million Man March Poster/Flyer/Button
- 1978/1979 - The Little Black Book -  Edition No.5 Jackie Robinson Foundation
- Black Enterprise Issue January 1981 “The Woman Boss”
- Alpha Phi Alpha Paddle
- July 8, 1989 Press Photo - Elderly AA Man Floodwaters 9th Street, Charlotte NC
- Press Photo 1989 NY Democratic mayor elect David Dinkins
- Press Photo November 8, 1989 NY Mayor David Dinkins Victory Speech
- Jet Magazine May 31, 1979: Should The Word Nigger Be Banned?
- Book - 1978 - A Stranger in the House
- HIP Magazine - January 1977 

Art
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- Elizabeth Catlett - “Sharecropper”
- Elizabeth Catlett - “Survivor”
- Charles Bibbs - Untitled
- Romare Bearden - “Open Door”
- Sande Society Helmet Mask
- Larry K. Martin -”T’anks Da Lawd”
- Susan Dyasigner - “Maxwell Street - Chicago”
- Carved wood sculpture of Mother and Children
- African Carved Large Woman Holding Bowl
- Ernest McCalman Round Obama Wood Carving
- Relief Wood Carving of Kenyan Villagers
- Ted Ellis - “Wade in the Water”
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Lele Style Folding Masks
-  Synthia Saint James “Extraordinaire” Hand Signed Artist Proof 
- Strivers Row - Oil on Canvas by Kenneth Davenport
- Large Carved West African Mask 1976
- Large Carved South African Mask
- Benin Bronze Head
- Helms Drawing of young black boy
- Don Robertson “Preacher with Choir”
- L. Evans - Women by Sea - Acrylic Painting
- Romare Bearden - The Lantern “Artists Proof” 1979
- Kenneth Davenport - Man