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Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
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God Bless Our World

Date: 1972
Description: Holiday card with three children of different races, Asian American, Caucasian and African American, sleeping in three beds. Each has a stocking pinned to ...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1978
Description: Holiday card showing four African Americans, two men and two women, sliding down a hill on a sled. More snow-covered hills are visible in the background. T...
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Holiday Card with a Drawing of Three African Americans

Date: 1972
Description: Holiday card with three African Americans, two men and a baby. Inside of a black and white border, on a black background, the people appear in the lower le...
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Free Men of Color and Choctaw Indian Volunteers at New Orleans

Date: 1982
Description: "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec...
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Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
Description: "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei...
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Pressbook for the Movie Film "Black Like Me"

Date: 1964
Description: A page from the pressbook for the movie "Black Like Me" depicting a one-sheet poster that could be ordered to publicize the film. The poster reads: "I chan...
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Autographed Hank Aaron Print

Date: 1967
Description: Waist-up portrait of Hank Aaron in his Atlanta Braves uniform. The print is autographed at the top.
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A Farm Family

Date: 1909
Description: A Southern African American family posing outdoors in front of their house. The children are in an oxcart in the foreground, and the parents are behind the...

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