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

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.

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

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An excerpt from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s report on the Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party.

A photograph that epitomizes the cultural significance of the Savoy Ballroom.