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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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Wm. C. Dunn & Co. ; Shapiro Bernstein & Von Tilzer
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Paul Robeson as Othello, Savo…
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political activists
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Sidney Poitier (far right), Frank
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Bert Williams
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Portrait of Paul Robeson
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Ira Aldridge
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Ira Aldridge
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Ira Aldridge, 1853.
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Postcard of Kathlyn Jones, we…
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The play of the month - Cheat…
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Paul Robeson at a podium, del…
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Postcard of William Bander, i…
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Mr. Ira Aldridge as Mungo in …
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Publicity portrait of enterta…
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Ira Aldridge as "Othello"
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Ira Aldridge; Member of the o…
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Group portrait of singer Nat …
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Portrait of composers Clarenc…
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Portrait of entertainers Bert…
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Paul Robeson at the immigrati…
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Richard B. Harrison
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Jim Kelly in a barbershop
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Ira Aldridge as King Lear
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Paul Robeson as Othello, and …
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Paul Robeson joining members …
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Talented dramatic performers;…
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Candid shot of
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Flournoy E. Miller
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American
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Group portrait of King Cole T…
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P. Jay Sidney, as Private Palmer
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