BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Celebration: Snapshots of African American Communities

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Celebration: Snapshots of African American Communities:

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Description of Pictures: Celebration: Snapshots of African American Communities
September 9, 2016 – December 27, 2016
To celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History presents a special display of 25 photographs that reflect the diversity of the African American experience. The photos come from two collections in the Museum’s Archives Center that depict special occasions and everyday life in African American communities: the Scurlock Studio Collection and the Fournet Drug Store.
The Washington, D.C., based Scurlock Studio Collection includes the work of Addison Scurlock and his sons, Robert and George, who documented not only graduations and weddings but also significant community events over a period of 90 years. The family-owned Fournet Drug Store in St. Martinsville, La. was a multi-generation business with an African American clientele that closed in 1984. The collection includes photos from the 1940s-1970s, mostly black-and-white and some hand colored, that were never retrieved by customers.
Six of the photos in the exhibit will be chosen with the assistance of the public in an online polling activity.

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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. SIAHCE_160912_001.JPG: Celebration "Every during those hard times and more to come, there was room for feelings of happiness, belonging, and pride in our lives." -- Website visitor To mark the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we offer these images of joy-filled moments. To help select images for display, we asked staff members and visitors to our website to vote for their favorites. And we asked them to share their thoughts about what they saw -- thoughts that you'll find on this and other labels in the gallery. These photographs were taken when the United States was a society segregated by race. Nonetheless, African Americans lived in complex communities in which families and church groups, schools and businesses,sport teams and social clubs thrived. As one website visitor wrote: "These photographs show the diversity of our lives and our strength regardless of how others viewed us." Share your thoughts about these moments of celebration. Tweet us @amhistorymuseum!
2. SIAHCE_160912_010.JPG: Sharon Jones' birthday party at Mrs. Howard's Nursery School March 4, 1949
3. SIAHCE_160912_024.JPG: Mrs. M.J. Dickerson, clergy, and group Around 1935-1937
4. SIAHCE_160912_038.JPG: Miss American Legion Post 567 and her court St. Martinville, Louisiana, 1954
5. SIAHCE_160912_051.JPG: Addison and Mamie Scurlock at their 50th wedding anniversary (detail) November 18, 1962
6. SIAHCE_160912_062.JPG: Paid in Full Mortgage Burning Shiloh Baptist Church On a Sunday morning in 1943, the Rev. Earl L. Harrison and members of Shiloh Baptist Church burned the mortgage, retiring the debt on their building -- no small feat coming out of the Great Depression. They must have found special satisfaction on this day; this was their accomplishment. As a dead of Howard University's Divinity School later noted, the church was "the only institution that blacks could own and define, where whites were not behind the scenes." -- Howard Morrison
7. SIAHCE_160912_073.JPG: Freedmen's Hospital nurses 1930
8. SIAHCE_160912_080.JPG: Proud Moment Dr. and Mrs. E.C. Smith 1928 Is this the moment when Ernest Clarence Smith began his 48-year tenure as pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, DC? Here he stands, along with his wife, Mamie Odile Smith, in front of the church; they each have just the beginning of a smile as they look toward the camera. I think they're forward to the start of a journey, those long years of service to their church and community. -- Bob Horton
9. SIAHCE_160912_084.JPG: User comment: The sign said: Unidentified wedding party (detail) 1954 However, someone provided this detail: Groom is George Mallery Sr. Bride is Mary Alice Menard
10. SIAHCE_160912_102.JPG: Children playing Probably 1952
11. SIAHCE_160912_109.JPG: Leonard Mitchell and friend St. Martinville, Louisiana, 1957
12. SIAHCE_160912_118.JPG: Elementary School Graduation St. Martinville, Louisiana, date unknown
13. SIAHCE_160912_127.JPG: The Scurlock family November 1952
14. SIAHCE_160912_136.JPG: Lucy Hawkin's birthday party May 30, 1957
15. SIAHCE_160912_146.JPG: Rug cutting 1950
16. SIAHCE_160912_157.JPG: Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial April 9, 1939
17. SIAHCE_160912_164.JPG: Jackie Robinson and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Howard University (detail) June 7, 1957
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