african

Festival of African and Afro-American Art and Culture
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed on white paper, with a brown and yellow background design. At the top is "Wilson College presents". At the center is "festival of / African and Afro- / American art and / culture /...

The Atrocity Exhibition
1986

Poster has a black printed background with a brown, black and white stylized image of a figure''s face at the top. A strip of white over the figure''s nose has black text with the OBAALA logo and...

Women Under Apartheid
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background photo of an African American woman. Across the top is "Women Under / Apartheid". At the right center is "...white think that with / their money they can buy...

By the Beat of the Drum
1979

Poster printed on white paper. At the top is a stylized image of a flaming drum among plants beneath an orange sky. At the bottom of the poster is "by the beat of the drum / with ?atucaje /...

Afro-Cubana
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a yellow printed background with red zig-zagging borders at the left and right. Across the top edge is "Jazz In The City Presents" in green. At the top of the poster is a red explosion-...

Working for a Better Tomorrow
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Multicolor poster has a stylized image of African people working - a woman carrying a child, a woman breastfeeding a child, two women digging, a work station with pots and jugs, women pumping...

Untitled (African woman)
1974

This poster has a 1.5 inch white margin around a black and white illustration of an African woman seen from the shoulders up. She is wearing strings of white beads around her neck and long...

A War Against Drugs...
1993

Poster has black and white text and images printed on white paper. Test, starting at top and moving down the psoter reads, "the political economy of the U.S. counterinsurgency series - part 1 / is...

Umoja Ya Afrikan People
1982

Multi-color poster on white paper has an unprinted border that frames multiple small images of postage stamps. The postage stamps have images of various African countries and men and women. Text...

Palmares
1984

This is a multi-colored screen print on white paper. The upper two thirds of the poster is an image of a village with thatched huts and a path down the center. There are 3 human figures pictured,...

Circa 1978

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in red, green, black, and brown. The top of the poster has text in black: "America has more prisons, / and prisoners, than any / other...

Black People A Nation Behind Bars
1978

Poster is printed on pink paper overall with text and images in red, black, and gray. The top of the poster has the text: "Black People / A Nation Behind Bars" with two small black triangles, one...

circa 1982

The top of the poster has a stylized drawing of a male figure with an assault rifle. The background of the drawing has a silhouetted image of a group of figures with rifles, on a ridge, against...

African Art and Social Organization Exhibition
1982

Poster has a brown background with 12 black outlined squares in the center with drawings of African masks. Below reads, "African Art and Social Organization Exhibition/ 1 Kaiser Center Plaza...

Traditions in Cloth
1986

Poster shows a photograph of a quilt with a pattern of rectangles in various sizes. The main colors of the quilt are green, blue, and brown with accents in yellow and red. White and yellow text...

African Origins
1978

Poster has a black background with white text. Main image is of a triangle with different symbols in the center including: eye of Isis, ankh, cross, left-facing swastika, Star of David, crescent...

Give the drummer some
c. 1979

Poster consists of full page image. Most of the image and brighter color are inside the silhouette of a man playing a drum. The image depicts and African man dancing in a grass skirt and playing...

We must continue to build the family
1996

Poster has a red border with small images of postage stamps in the center. The postage stamps have images of various African countries and men and women. Around the border is black text. It reads...

6/30/90

Photo of "Nelson and Winnie Mandela deplaning in Oakland." The shot is taken from afar at a low angle with a telephoto lens, showing only the two figures, from the waist up, against a clear sky,...

2/14/91

Handwritten on back, "C.K. Ladzekpo African Dance". Image depicts Ladzekpo posing in a vestment with a drum.

12/17/90

From a caption included in the press release for the photo which has been folded around the image, "NOT THE REAL THING Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli display their Grammy Award durimg...

1991

The bridegroom is from Nigeria. His family brough the wedding garments for the bride and groom with them from Nigeria. This is a framed wedding photograph (showing the groom and the bride in...

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