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African American motion picture actors and actresses
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African American actors
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African American singers
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African American entertainers
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African Americans
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Johnson, Helen A
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Morton, Edna
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Chenault, Lawrence, 1877-1943
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Williams, Bert, 1874-1922
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Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
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Portrait collection
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American popular songs
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Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection
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Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings
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Photographs
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Wm. C. Dunn & Co. ; Shapiro Bernstein & Von Tilzer
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Cleveland, O
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A. Jenkins
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Charles B. Ward Music Publishing Co
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Cyril V. Briggs
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Fredi Washington, James Ligh…
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Fredi Washington Bell and Hug…
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American
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The Barry Gray Show, with Glo…
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… of the NAACP,
actor
Ossie Davis
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Gloster B. Current, Ruby Dee,…
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… Malcolm X, with
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The Barry Gray Show with Jame…
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Ossie Davis
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The Barry Gray Show, with Oss…
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Articles--Newspapers
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African
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Portrait of Fredi Washington …
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Ossie Davis with Purlie Victo…
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Fredi Washington, far right, …
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Ray Yates, Al Watts, Carringt…
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and activist Harry
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actor
and activist Harry
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., …
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… Callender, with
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Sidney
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Actor
Jim Kelly in a barbershop
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African
American
actors
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… Higginbotham with
actor
Marlon
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…. Higginbotham, with
actor
Marlon
Josephine Baker
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African
American
entertainers
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… of Associated
Actors
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… of Associated
Actors
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Studio portrait of Fredi Wash…
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African
American
actresses
The play of the month - Cheat…
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African
Americans
Ira Aldridge
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African
American
actors
Ira Aldridge as King Lear
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African
American
actors
Negro
Actors
Guild gathering, which includes
topic:
African
American
entertainers
Unidentified
actors
in a scene from the Federal
topic:
African
American
actors
Hattie McDaniel
topic:
African
American
motion picture
actors
Oscar Micheaux (center) with an
actor
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African
American
motion picture producers
Oscar Micheaux (center) with an
actor
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… (center) with an
actor
Actors
Sidney Poitier (far right), Frank
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African
American
actors
Portrait of actress Fredi Was…
topic:
African
American
motion picture
actors
J'ai deux amours...Josephine …
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African
American
entertainers
Josephine Baker
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African
American
entertainers
Josephine Baker
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African
American
entertainers
Josephine Baker
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African
American
entertainers
… for
actor
Leslie Scott
abstract:
… a cigarette for
actor
Leslie
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Richard B. Harrison
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African
American
actors
… unidentified
actors
in a scene
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actors
in a scene
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Ray Yates, Georgette Harvey, …
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Leida Snow interviews Frances…
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African
-born
actor
and theatre
Talented dramatic performers;…
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African
Americans
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Paul Robeson addressing the a…
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Actor
and activist Paul Robeson addressing
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Bert Williams in his rooster …
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African
American
actors
Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne…
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… and mother of
actor
Leigh
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… and
actor
Todd Duncan
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African
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Paul Robeson joining members …
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African
American
political activists
Paul Robeson as Othello, Savo…
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African
American
political activists
Paul Robeson at a podium, del…
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… York, on the
American
Paul Robeson at the immigrati…
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Paul Robeson as Othello, and …
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Bert Williams and Leon Errol …
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Evelyn Preer in a scene from …
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American
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Charles Lucas and Iris Hall i…
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American
motion picture
actors