work on paper

50: The Golden Anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
n.d.

Poster has an image of several African American figurew with names of famous authors in the upper right like Arthur a Schomburg, Langston Hughes, and W.E.B. du Bois. Poster reads, " 50: The Golden...

'The Adventuress
1972

Poster has an image of an African woman sitting on a tree branch above a jungle. The woman has a pink skirt and is topless with large necklace and a large knife. The poster is in black and shades...

untitled (African woman)
1971

Poster has a neon orange and green background. In the center is an African woman with her arms outstretched. She has a circle around her head, hips and ankles. She is topless with a long skinny...

Lovers
1971

Top of poster is printed with a stylized drawing of two figures embracing and kissing. Seen in profile, the figure at left has short hair and the figure at right as a large earring. Behind the...

Doctor Nixon's Traveling Minstrel Show
1969

Poster is printed with a stylized drawing overall. The drawing shows three figures against a black background with a white semicircle. The three figures are each wearing an astronaut's suit with...

Black Arts Today
Late 20th to Early 21st Century

Poster has a unprinted white border overall. Background of poster is black with a white and black silhouette of a human figure. Overlaid on the silhouette in the lower left corner of the poster is...

Clusters at the Cloister Room
1977

The top of the poster is printed with a collage of stylized photographs of African American singers and musicians interspersed with news clippings and other printed material with text like: "Free...

SNCC (Mother and child)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed overall with a stylized drawing of an African American woman holding a small child that is asleep on her shoulder, only the lower portion of the woman's face is visible. The...

SNCC (father and child)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Background of poster is red and transitions to purple at the left edge. Poster is printed with a stylized drawing of an African American man holding a young girl in a white dress, with her head...

Vote For President Dick Gregory
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Top and bottom edges of poster are white with text in blue, at top: "Vote For", and at bottom: "Mark Lane/Vice President". The center of the poster is printed with a large blue and white...

Soul of the 60's : Spirit of the 70's
1969

Poster has a light peach colored background with several images of men and women. At the top is an image of Martin Luther King Jr. from behind giving a speach. In the lower right is an image of...

Vote Communist
c. 1974

Top edge of poster is black with text in yellow: "Vote Communist". Body of poster is printed with a photograph of two men dressed in suit and tie sanding opposite one another, shaking hands, and...

The World Middleweight Championship
1987

Poster is an advertisement for the World Middleweight Boxing Championship of 1987. The background of the poster has a photograph of a boxer standing with both arms raised in front of a cloud of...

Henry Ossawa Tanner
1992

Poster is a laminated newspaper insert advertising a show at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, the title of the show is in the lower right corner: "Henry Ossawa Tanner / the Life and Work of a...

Generations
1993

Poster is printed with a large image in with a red and yellow background, in the foreground there is a young girl in a bathing suit rendered in purple, above and behind her is the face of a woman...

Faith Ringgold Dancing at the Louvre
1991-2010

Poster has a black background overall. Center of poster has a reproduction of "The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles" by Faith Ringgold, a quilt that shows a group of African American women seated...

United States Africa
1991

The left side of the poster is divided into three distinct horizontal sections, the top section is red with a drawing depicting several rows of soldiers in formation, tanks, an aircraft carrier,...

Africans, Get Organized!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in brown. The top edge of the poster has a small image of the African continent overlaid with the image of a mother and child and the text: "...

King
1970

Poster has a black background with several super imposed images of Martin Luther King Jr. in orange, pink and white. At thet op is "King" in large white lettering.

Malcolm X
1992

Left edge of the poster has the red, black, and green stripes of the pan-African flag. The right edge has a small section of the American Flag. The center of the poster has a drawing of Malcolm X...

Untitled (Malcolm X)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed overall with a black and white photograph of Malcolm X; shown from the neck up he is speaking while gesturing with his right hand.

Afrika
1976

Poster is printed with two maps of Africa shown side by side, each is labeled with large text in the lower left corner: "afrika". The map at left is divided into larger regions and is covered with...

Only You Can Prevent Ghetto Fires
1967

The top of the poster has a stylized drawing of an African American woman with gray hair and a tan hat and coat. Shown in front of the shouldering remains of a building the woman is pointing with...

Million Man March a Day of Atonement
1995

The poster is printed overall with a collage of photographs of the Million Man March in Washington, DC, these photos show large crowds of people marching, individuals, signs, and aerial views. The...

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