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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.
Items in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division See More
Books Are Weapons
Evelyn Preer in a scene from The Homesteader
Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in another scene from The Homesteader
All power to the people, BU.X.411
Black Panther / Newton, Seale / Congress Assembly / Peace & Freedom, BU. X.435
Don't tread on us, BU. X.340
Poor People's Campaign, BU. X.380
Free Huey, Seize the Time, BU. X.409
I gave to free Angela, BU. X.420
Free Huey, BU. X.406
Fist symbol, BU. X.566
Proud American, February 14th, 1958, BU.X.253
James Meredith March through Mississippi: "March against fear", BU. X.375
We shall overcome, BU.X.646
Free The Panther 21, BU.10.001.5
American Negro Freedom Movement Inc. BU. X.399
Black Panther / Newton, Seale / Congress Assembly / Peace & Freedom, BU. X.593
Black history - Women's history: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, BU. X.247
No Vietnam in Africa, BU. X.285
Huey Newton, BU. 10.001.8
Say it loud: I'm Black and I'm proud, BHM86/TSC BU.89.005
Proud American: Freedom and Possibility, 1862-1962, BU. X.248
March on Washington for jobs & freedom, August 28, 1963, BU. X.587
It's time to intensify the struggle, BU. X.412
Equal rights in '63, BU.X.643
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
95 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
47 items
Works on paper collection
18 items
Poster Collection
11 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
6 items
Material culture collection
4 items
The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
1 item