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<H2> Free to Use and Reuse: Images of African American Women Changemakers </H2> |
<H2> Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1947. Music Division </H2> |
<H2> Katherine Dunham in costume. Photo by Phyllis Twachtman, 1956. Prints & Photographs Division </H2> |
<H2> Coretta Scott King at the Democratic National Convention, New York City. Photo by Warren K. Leffler, 1976. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. </H2> |
<H2> Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1946. Music Division </H2> |
<H2> Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign poster, 1972. Prints & Photographs Division </H2> |
<H2> Frances E.W. Harper. Frontispiece illustration for "Poems," published in 1898. General Collections </H2> |
<H2> Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964 </H2> |
<H2> Charlayne Hunter-Gault, head-and-shoulders portrait </H2> |
<H2> Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet </H2> |
<H2> Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse </H2> |
<H2> Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. </H2> |
<H2> Nannie Helen Burroughs </H2> |
<H2> Angela Davis </H2> |
<H2> Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm announcing her candidacy for presidential nomination </H2> |
<H2> Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, head-and-shoulders portrait </H2> |
<H2> Rosa Parks. Poor Peoples March at Washingon Monument and Lincoln Memorial </H2> |
<H2> Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait </H2> |
<H2> First Negro Nurses Land in England </H2> |
<H2> The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones </H2> |
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<H2> African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York </H2> |
<H2> Junior normal class of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee </H2> |
<H2> Portrait of Harriet Tubman </H2> |
<H2> Harriet Tubman, seated in chair, probably at her home in Auburn, New York </H2> |
<H2> Phillis Wheatley. Frontispiece & title Page, Poems on Various Subjects... </H2> |
<H2> Bust portrait of educator and civic leader, Maria 'Molly' Baldwin </H2> |
<H2> Elizabeth Carter Brooks with Emma Azelia Smith Hackley (wearing spectacles) </H2> |
<H2> Hallie Quinn Brown, educator and activist </H2> |
<H2> Portrait of journalist, Lillian Parker Thomas, standing before studio backdrop </H2> |
<H2> Portrait of educator Clarissa M. Thompson </H2> |
<H2> Portrait of educator, Laura A. Moore Westbrook </H2> |
<H2> Bust portrait of educator and activist, Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) </H2> |
<H2> Josephine A. Silone Yates, educator and activist, seated before studio backdrop </H2> |
<H2> Mrs. Constance B. Motley being sworn in by Mayor Wagner </H2> |
<H2> Frankie M. Lisenby in cape and hat with YWCA insignia </H2> |
<H2> Mrs. L.E. Parsons </H2> |
<H2> Ida B. Wells </H2> |
<H2> Asst. Law Prof. Patricia Harris, new Ambassador to Luxemburg </H2> |
<H2> Zora Hurston, beating the hountar, or mama drum </H2> |
<H2> Marian Anderson and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune at the launching of the SS Booker T. Washington </H2> |
<H2> Mamie Westmorland, school teacher </H2> |
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