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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
Egungun Layewu carving
Abolitionists coins
SNCC - Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
Brother Gaidi Obadele and Malcolm X
Power to the People
You Can Jail A Revolutionary, But You Can't Jail The Revolution
Por Angela - 8 De Marzo Dia Internacional De La Mujer
The Changing Black Attitudes in Poetry
Support Black Liberation: Free Assata Shakur, Free Sundiata Acoli
Kwanza Celebration at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Bread and Roses
The African Nationalist Legion of African Nationalist Pioneer Movement Presents Annual Sheiks Dance
Political Prisoners of War in Amerika: The Struggle is for Land!
Freedom for the Wilmington 10
One Man One Vote: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Black Solidarity Day: Black People Charge Genocide
BALSA - Black American Law Students Association
We are an African People: Art Sale for Our School
Fon (Dahomey) appliqué, of a seated woman nursing two babies
Genevieve Nelson
Bas Relief of a Female Dancer
Laughing Boy
The Pugilist
Head of Minerva
James Weldon Johnson
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
95 items
Poster Collection
70 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
34 items
Works on paper collection
18 items
Material culture collection
4 items
The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection
2 items
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
2 items
Costume and Textile Collection
1 item
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
1 item