Cover shows a nighttime scene of a group of African Americans singing, dancing, and playing the violin and banjo. Inset photograph at lower right of song performers Val Harris and Jack Manion.
Black and white photograph of the Negro Building, located at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. In front of the building is Lake Watauga.
Group of five men standing beneath a shelter filling glass bottles with water from a well. Some of the men appear to be African Americans and there is a young boy in the background.
Report submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry. This monthly departmental form,designated No. 8, names twenty-eight civilian employees due pay. All but one are listed as "Colored"...
Cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of a slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and...
Sheet music covers; Caricatures; African Americans; Ethnic stereotypes
The antebellum character Jim Crow is surrounded by seven demeaning caricatures of African Americans: one wearing fancy uniform and carrying sword; hunting with rifle; fight over a woman; man on boat looking at alligator; man dressed in formal...
Journal documenting the 1779-1780 river voyage of Col. John Donelson and others, including women, children, and African Americans. The travelers sought to establish the first permanent settlement west of the Appalachians. Handwritten in ink on...
Laundry; Domestic life; Laundresses; Housework; Kettles; African Americans; Women domestics; Houses; Women
An African American woman is pictured at the back of a multi-story dwelling stirring laundry that is heating over a fire in a black iron kettle. The house, with clothes drying on the porch rails, is visibile behind her. A dinner bell is mounted...
Group of eleven young African American females participating in a demonstration of health care procedures. They are all wearing nurse-type dresses with caps showing the red cross symbol.
Schools; Rural schools; Teenagers; School children; Students; Country life; African Americans; Automobiles
Group of African American children and teenagers stand in front of Gladeville Colored School off Bradyville Pike. An old automobile is in view. Sepia tone.
Broadside advertising an NAACP City-Wide Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University, featuring a speech by Thurgood Marshall, Chief Legal Council for the NAACP. Also speaking are members of the J. C. Napier Lawyers Association. The meeting will...
Small notice inviting the community to attend the funeral of the mother of Sarah Player (colored) at Caper's Chapel. The invitation is bordered in black.
Scrapbook page contains images of individual students on Fisk's campus. The students are from the classes of 1928-1930. A few photographs show Jubilee Hall in the background.
General stores; Inclined planes; Laborers; Waterfronts; Barrels; City & town life; African Americans
Town along the river is featured with two African-American workers rolling barrels along a loading ramp. William A. Lueders General Merchandise Store, storage barn, and other buildings appear in the background. The William A. Lueders General...
Several men are loading hogs from a chute or gangplank onto a riverboat. A pulley hoists the chute off of the bank. A corral is pictured in the background. A woman and two children, each wearing wide-brimmed hats, watch the scene from the side.
Cattle; Carts & wagons; Ox teams; Women; African Americans; Bodies of water
A team of yoked oxen in the foreground are led to the water's edge by their African-American handler. A group of women are seated on a wagon bed with a small building in the background.
