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Photo: Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine
Artist: Kadir Nelson, born 1974
2017
Oil on linen
Collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift from Kadir Nelson and the JKBN Group, LLC
© 2017 Kadir Nelson
Photo: Sal Castro
Artist: George Rodríguez
Gelatin silver print
1974
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquisition made possible through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
©1992 George Rodríguez
Photo: Fred T. Korematsu
Artist: Unidentified Artist
c. 1940
Hand-colored gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Fred T. Korematsu Family
Photo: Zitkála-Šá
Artist: Joseph Turner Keiley
1898 (printed 1901)
Photogravure
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Published by: New Century Publishers
Written by: Louise Mitchell
Printed by: Allied Printing Trades Council
Object Number: 2010.55.68 Hold That Rent Ceiling
January 1947
ink on paper
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
Manufactured by: Unidentified
Subject of: Young Communist League
Object Number: 2013.68.13.1-.2
Pinback buttons for the Young Workers Liberation League
1965-1984
ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Manufactured by: N. G. Slater Corporation
Subject of: National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Object Number: 2013.68.19
Pinback button for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
After 1973 ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Issued by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Manufactured by: Horo Co.
Object Number: 2013.68.24
Pinback button with War Against Repression / Guerra Contra Represión
1971
ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Manufactured by: Unidentified
Object Number: 2013.68.31
Pinback button with the text "Viva El Boicot"
1970s
ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Manufactured by: Unidentified
Object Number: 2013.68.75
Pinback button for education activism
1950-2000
ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Manufactured by: AFL-CIO
Subject of: United Farm Workers of America
Subject of: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Object Number: 2013.68.142
Pinback button for the Delano Grape Strike
1965-1970
ink on paper with metal and plastic
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
Created by: Bernard Kleina
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
Object Number: 2013.140.28
Digital print of a crowd running during a Chicago Freedom Movement march
August 5, 1966; printed 2012
ink on paper
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bernard J. Kleina and Susan Keleher Kleina, © Bernard J. Kleina
Photograph by: James H. Karales
Created by: Rick Rhodes Photography & Imaging, LLC
Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Subject of: Morehouse College
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
Object Number: 2015.129.8
Passive Resistance Training, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
1960
digital
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales, © Estate of James Karales
Photo: Jack Johnson Crowd at the Ring
July 4, 1910
Reno, Nevada
Nevada Historical Society
Photo: Johnson-Jeffries 8bit RGB RT
July 4, 1910
Reno, Nevada
Nevada Historical Society
Photo: Johnson Jeffries Fight Knockout
July 4, 1910
Reno, Nevada
Nevada Historical Society