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Description of Pictures: Through the African American Lens: A Preview of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
May 8, 2015 – TBA
In this preview of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, see a sampling of artifacts that demonstrate the richness and diversity of the African American experience, including photographs, film clips, works on paper, and fashion.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIAHAA_150509_005.JPG: Through the African American Lens
2. SIAHAA_150509_012.JPG: African Americans have survived slavery, fought for their freedom in the Civil War, for the freedom of others in subsequent wars and created lives of meaning for themselves, their families and their country. Through the African American Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection offers an introduction to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The exhibition presents examples of agency, resilience, faith, perseverance, and pride, and showcases stories of trailblazers, innovators, and patriots who helped to form this great nation. In 2003, when President George W. Bush signed legislation to establish the NMAAHC, there was no collection; curators started the process from scratch. Now, the museum has holdings of over 33,000 artifacts, items from antebellum South and the Civil Rights era, and covering themes such as religion, education, sports, popular culture, photography, film and visual arts. This exhibition was made possible in large part by more than two dozen families of well-known and lesser-known history makers who graciously donated their family treasures, that constitute the building blocks of the museum. These sacred objects demonstrate how the African American story is quintessentially an American one of determination, hardship, sacrifice, and fulfillment.
3. SIAHAA_150509_059.JPG: Love, Peace, and Soul: Soul Train was originally conceived and produced by Don Cornelius (1936-2012). The weekly R&B music variety show first aired in Chicago in 1967. An instant hit, the "love, peace, and soul" program was one of the longest-running syndicated shows in television history, airing nationally from 1971 to 2006. The array of R&B acts performing on the program and the Soul Train dancers, each with their own unique performance and fashion sense, added to the show's popularity and cultural import.
4. SIAHAA_150509_069.JPG: En Vogue: En Vogue was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1990s. Conceived as a modern-day nod to the all-female singing groups of the 1950s and '60s, the quartet singing sensation started in Oakland, California, in the late 1980s. These ensembles were worn by the original members -- Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson, and Terry Ellis -- for the 1992 music video of the popular song, "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)." En Vogue won numerous awards including six American Music Awards, seven MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Grammy nominations.
5. SIAHAA_150509_076.JPG: "Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero... he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said." -- Me'shell Ndegeocello
6. SIAHAA_150509_078.JPG: Where do you stand? The success of many African American musicians and performers advanced the hopes and aspirations of the larger black community and challenged racial discrimination. The diverse images they portrayed on the screen, stage, and airways often provided a voice of empowerment and uplift prompting social change. Yet, choosing to put their lives on display came at a price for some artists. They sacrificed their privacy, personal safety, and relationships to advance a larger cause.
7. SIAHAA_150509_087.JPG: Beyond Category: African American Musicians
8. SIAHAA_150509_090.JPG: Base guitar designed for Me'Shell Ngegeocello
9. SIAHAA_150509_099.JPG: Althea Gibson tennis racquet
10. SIAHAA_150509_107.JPG: Carl Lewis: Olympian of the Century Speed suit, ca 1989-1992
11. SIAHAA_150509_116.JPG: Godfather of Soul: James Brown Red jumpsuit with red vest 1968 Hammond B-3 organ owned by James Brown
12. SIAHAA_150509_135.JPG: Costume from The Wiz
13. SIAHAA_150509_143.JPG: Blacks on Broadway
14. SIAHAA_150509_152.JPG: Culture
15. SIAHAA_150509_161.JPG: Sitting at the Table
16. SIAHAA_150509_165.JPG: Personal copy of the play script, Blues for Mister Charlie, by James Baldwin
17. SIAHAA_150509_178.JPG: A Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, 1850
18. SIAHAA_150509_182.JPG: The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1986-1997 Jacob Lawrence
19. SIAHAA_150509_215.JPG: Art by African Americans
20. SIAHAA_150509_224.JPG: Phillis Wheatley, 1973 by Elizabeth Catlett
21. SIAHAA_150509_240.JPG: Fur coat for the movie Super Fly (1972) Costume worn by Julius J. Carry III, playing Sho'Nuff, in Shogun of Harlem (1985)
22. SIAHAA_150509_244.JPG: "Blaxploitation" Blockbusters
23. SIAHAA_150509_253.JPG: Brush Arbor
24. SIAHAA_150509_261.JPG: To God Be the Glory: African Americans and Christianity
25. SIAHAA_150509_272.JPG: In God We Trust: African Americans and Islam
26. SIAHAA_150509_281.JPG: Platinum pendant and chain originally owned by Sister Clark Muhammad, wife of Elijah Muhammad. Inside the circle are the Arabic words "Allah" and the family last name, Muhammad.
27. SIAHAA_150509_292.JPG: Fruit of Islam (FOI) cap
28. SIAHAA_150509_302.JPG: Pillars of Faith: African Americans and Judaism
29. SIAHAA_150509_305.JPG: I feel so happy when I am making clothes that I could just jump up and down with joy. I like for my dresses to be admired.... like when someone tells me, "the Ann Lowe dresses were doing all of the dancing at the cotillon last night." THat's what I like to hear. -- Ann Lowe
30. SIAHAA_150509_316.JPG: Society's Best-Kept Secret: Ann Lowe
31. SIAHAA_150509_320.JPG: Crowns of Glory
32. SIAHAA_150509_330.JPG: Black is Beautiful: African American Adornment
33. SIAHAA_150509_342.JPG: School desks from the Hope School Hope School Sign, c 1925 A Rosenwald School in Pomaria, South Carolina
34. SIAHAA_150509_351.JPG: What are you wearing?
35. SIAHAA_150509_354.JPG: Collaboration & Empowerment in Education
36. SIAHAA_150509_358.JPG: Pullman-branded items
37. SIAHAA_150509_362.JPG: African Americans on the Move
38. SIAHAA_150509_384.JPG: Community
39. SIAHAA_150509_399.JPG: Caring for the Community: Midwifery
40. SIAHAA_150509_421.JPG: Table and table cloth used by members of the Brown family and lawyers from the NAACP to prepare their case.
41. SIAHAA_150509_424.JPG: The Civil Rights History Project & Brown v Board of Education
42. SIAHAA_150509_435.JPG: Making a Case for Equal Access to Education
43. SIAHAA_150509_445.JPG: What's your decision?
44. SIAHAA_150509_460.JPG: A Family of Freedom Fighters
45. SIAHAA_150509_472.JPG: The only known surviving shelter tent from a colored Union regiment. To avoid transporting extra weight, each soldier received a half tent that could be buttoned together with another soldier's tent or mounted with poles or sticks.
46. SIAHAA_150509_480.JPG: Air and Space
47. SIAHAA_150509_487.JPG: Charles Bolden's naval aviator's Nomex flight suit
48. SIAHAA_150509_501.JPG: United We Stand: African American Presence in the Military
49. SIAHAA_150509_554.JPG: History
50. SIAHAA_150509_557.JPG: Early Settlers: The Perkins-Dennis Family
51. SIAHAA_150509_560.JPG: The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers in the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-65 by Joseph Wilson, 1888
52. SIAHAA_150509_565.JPG: Silver Plate Wax Jack, ca 1800-1850, used for sealing letters
53. SIAHAA_150509_571.JPG: The Underground Railroad by William Still, 1872
54. SIAHAA_150509_575.JPG: Indian Head Penny minted in 1863, to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation
55. SIAHAA_150509_591.JPG: The Hunted Slaves, 1862 Richard Ansdell
56. SIAHAA_150509_602.JPG: Servants at a Pump, c 1840 Nicolino Calyo
57. SIAHAA_150509_612.JPG: Canteen, sugarcane cutter, and field crib
58. SIAHAA_150509_615.JPG: Plantation Life, Family, and Freedom
59. SIAHAA_150509_618.JPG: Personal Clothing items of Harriet Tubman
60. SIAHAA_150509_637.JPG: Black Families in the West
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