"Decks of a Slave Ship" engraving, from W.O. Blake's book, History of Slavery (1861)

Liberian Two Cents, 1847
Berlin Olympics, 1936
George Washington Carver/ Booker T. Washington US Half Dollars, 1952 (2 coins)
Commemorating the Act of Navigation, the Statutory Registry of Merchant Ships, 1786
Commemorating "The Liberator Newspaper, Publishing to …

A ten inch plate made in Stockton-on-Tees by William Smith & Co. between 1825 and 1855 commemorating Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign in Egypt that lasted from 1798 to 1801. The plate is transfer printed with what seems to be hand coloring under the glaze. It has no …

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"Crisis", a magazine published by the NAACP, started publishing November 1910 under the leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois. The following is the purpose of the magazine in his own words -- "The object of this publication is to set forth those facts and arguments which …

"Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life", a magazine first published in 1923, by the Urban League of Chicago which Charles S. Johnson launched upon joining the organization, Opportunity was intended as a vehicle for new black writers and as a competitor with the …

Peter Jackson, 1894

"The Negro History Bulletin", started by Carter G. Woodson, the creator of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) in 1915. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926, which later became Black History Month in 1976. Pictured …

Jack Johnson, 1940s

Joe Gans & Joe Jeannette, 1910

George Dixon, 1910