Curated African American artifacts with historical context.
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Published in London by Wishart & Co. in 1934 , Negro: Anthology is a monumental 856-page volume edited by Nancy Cunard , compiling essays, poetry, hi…
Negro: Anthology is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging compilations of Black life and thought from the early tw…
The 1969 Topps Lew Alcindor Rookie Card #25 presents the 7'2" UCLA phenom in a dynamic shooting pose, wearing a green Milwaukee Bucks practice jersey…
This is the only official rookie card of one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history. Issued in 1969 during L…
All-Negro Comics #1, published in June 1947 , introduced pioneering characters such as Lion Man —a college-educated scientist and superhero widely re…
All-Negro Comics #1 is historically significant as the first comic book in the United States to be written and illustra…
This 1948 Booker T. Washington commemorative half dollar is graded MS67+ by PCGS with CAC approval, placing it at the absolute pinnacle for quality o…
The Booker T. Washington half dollar was the first U.S. coin to feature an African American and was designed by Isaac S…
The Adventures of Black Eldridge: The Panther is a rare and boldly political underground comic published in 1970 by Marcus Books , one of the nation’…
The Adventures of Black Eldridge: The Panther is historically significant as both a reflection of and a participant in…
Depicting Negro Leagues legend Satchel Paige in a Cleveland Indians uniform, this card stands among the earliest mainstream releases for a Black play…
Satchel Paige broke barriers with his MLB debut and is remembered for incredible longevity and excellence, symbolizing…
Timely Digest , launched in April 1931 in Minneapolis , is recognized as the first Black-owned news magazine published in the United States . Unlike…
Timely Digest predates all other nationally recognized Black magazines, including Negro Digest (1942), Ebony (1945), an…
This is an original newspaper dated September 21, 1895 , from The Athens Clipper (Athens, Georgia), reporting on Booker T. Washington’s celebrated sp…
This document captures one of the earliest published records of Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech , in which he…
A thin cardboard placard, 13¾ by 21¼ inches, reading simply "I Am A Man" in bold black ink and bearing an Allied Printing union bug, carried by strik…
The Memphis strike began after sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death in a malfunctionin…
This original Sunday comic strip artwork by George Herriman, dated June 23, 1918, showcases the classic trio of Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Offisa P…
Krazy Kat is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest comic strips, influencing visual art, literature, and later g…
Quintet is a celebrated large-format acrylic painting by Ernie Barnes, depicting five jazz musicians in expressive motion, captured in Barnes’s hallm…
Barnes’s Quintet stands as a masterwork in modern American art, bridging genres while honoring the legacy of jazz and i…
Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is one of the most powerful documents of the early civil rights m…
Wells’s anti-lynching campaign helped lay the groundwork for future civil rights activism. Her investigative work repre…