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Williams and Walker showing their famous and used facial features for their roles.

A music collection from the play Broadway Brevities introduced by Bert Williams.

Group of Klansmen surround freedman Gus (played by white actor Walter Long in blackface) in a scene from director D. W. Griffith's 1915 motion picture The Birth of a Nation.

Script of the play Hungry by Harry L. Newton which also includes a pamphlet of other musicals.

The church where Marin Luther King Jr. was baptized.

Anti-Black stereotypes that permeated popular culture from the ante-bellum period until the advent of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

The 1973 documentary directed by St. Clair Bourne chronicles Hudson 'Dusty' Barksdale, a young African American seminary student in Atlanta. As Barksdale aspires to be a minister, he explores the influence of the Black church in both rural…

A Hip Hop song by Public Enemy that reflects the affects of Crack/Base on the African Amerrican Community.

Small object that shows three figures holding up the world.