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

Documentary exploring the progress of black America through the lives of black politicians.

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A photo of the Cotton Club at night, there are many signs, one of them includes the way they advertised their black performers.

A digitized copy of a published news story for the Black Community News Service.

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.

A speech given by Malcolm X discussing the importance and necessity of Black Nationalism.

Students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, sit-in at Woolworth lunch counter in 1960.

A song written by Abel Meeropol and sung by Billie Holiday addressing the lynchings of black people in the Jim Crow South.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, police officers arrested Parks. This police report documenting Rosa Parks's charges for "failure to comply with the bus driver's instructions."