| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
 Many slave women were skilled seamstresses and made clothes for themselves and the slave owners.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Elizabeth Keckley (born 1818) was a slave seamstress who made enough money to buy the freedom of herself and her son, George. She became dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Bonnet made by seamstress, Martha Barnes for women working in the fields.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Photograph of an enslaved family from the mid 1800s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
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Gynecological equipment used by Dr J Mariot Sims to become wealthy after practicing on enslaved women for four years.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Photograph of a slave outside the slave owner's house, 1862.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
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Slaves were worked to death and treated very violently.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 where Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. In actuality, black people replaced slavery with apartheid.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) won her freedom in 1827 after being a slave for 30 years. She became a feminist writer and activist.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Olaudah Equiano was born in Benin, kidnapped and sold as a slave in the USA. He later wrote his life story.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
An image of abolitionist, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), used for his first book (1845).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Level C2 looks at Segregation. These are the so-called "Jim Crow" laws that legalised apartheid in large areas of the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Examples of Jim Crow Laws passed by several USA states that legalised separation of white and coloured (meaning black) people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Water drinking fountains were segregated.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Ku Klux Klan was set up to maintain white supremacy.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Lynching in the USA, a country that proclaims itself "the leader of the free world" and is quick to criticise the human rights record of others.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Racial stereotypes are used to dehumanise people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Racial stereotype showing a black woman as a servant. These are common in many 1930s and 1940s movies and even cartoons.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Racial stereotype showing black men. The Black and White Minstrels were an example of white people demeaning black people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Salt and pepper shakers in the form of a racially stereotypical black couple.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
At the beginning of the 20th century, black culture begins to assert itself.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black writers document their lives in a racist society by discussing slavery, lynchings and segregation.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Poster advertising readings by a black poet. The word "negro" was a USA term used to describe black people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Evening gown worn by Ophelia De Vore (1921-2014). De Vore became a fashion icon after migrating from the South. She was the first black woman in the USA to be a model.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) promoted the purchase of shares (stocks in the USA) in the Black Star Line shipping company to promote trade among African people worldwide.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Miniature Quran of Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), a black religious leader in the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Schools, transport and entertainment was segregated until the 1960s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Dress worn by Rosa Parks (1913-2005). Parks began the bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama by refusing to give up her seat in a city bus to a white person.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for not obeying the Jim Crow racial segregation laws of Alabama.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Car pooling in Montgomery, Alabama to avoid having to use the segregated buses in Alabama. The boycott lasted for 381 days before the buses were de-segregated.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Four US marshals escort Ruby Bridges (born 1954) to be the first black child in an all white school in New Orleans. Only one teacher would teach her (in a class by herself). Her family lost their jobs and homes as punishment.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Ku Klux Klan resist the social changes towards equality.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black Panther badge.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Lyndon B Johnson.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Pen used by the USA President to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Glass shards from the bombing of a Birmingham (Alabama) church in 1963 that killed four black girls.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Bucket used by Martin Luther King to soak his feet after a five day march from Selma to Montgomery.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Hat worn during the March Againts Fear.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Apartheid signs for non-European (or "non-white") Americans.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Segregated railway carriage under the Jim Crow laws of segregation.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black family migrating North on the trains.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Whites only section of a railway carriage.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Water cooler for non-Whites.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Whites only male washroom and smoking lounge.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were a mixed race couple who were persecuted in Virginia until the Supreme Court banned marriage laws based on race in the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Supreme Court order banning marriage laws based on race in the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Hotels were segregated. The term "coloured" (USA spelling "colored") is a euphemism for non-European Americans.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Sign in segregated bus.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Segregation sign for buses.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Photographs of apartheid signs in the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Non-whites had to march to assert their rights. These marches were often met with deadly violence.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Level C1 is post 1968 and begins with the assassination of Martin Luther King.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr in 2014.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Oprah Winfrey is a major black interviewer. In the USA, black has been replaced with "African American" while "European Americans" are referred to as "Americans", the implication being that other types of Americans are different.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Barak Obama was the first black President in the USA (and the 44th overall).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black music with African rhythms and improvisation became mainstream during the 1960s and 1970s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black NASA computer programmers and mathematicians. Their role was hidden from the public until the 2010s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Black Green Lantern from DC Comics.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The 1977 TV series "Roots" (from a book by Alex Haley) brought USA black history to a wide audience.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Star Trek costume worn by Nichelle Nichols as Leutenant Nyota Uhura. Nichols was the first positive black character in a USA TV show.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
By the 1990s black people were role models like South African freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela and USA golfer, Tiger Woods.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The top level exhibits black culture.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
The Tin Man from "The Wiz" a black adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" from 1975.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Dress worn by the Dorothy character from "The Wiz".
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Movie poster featuring Sidney Poitier, one of the first black actors to be a lead.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Chuck Berry's Cadillac from 1973, one of many he owned.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Lightning Hopkin's electric guitar. Blues music originated in the USA and became popular in the UK in the late 1960s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Fats Domino's shoes.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Jimi Hendrix's electric pedals and the lyrics to "Gypsy Sun". Hendrix became famous in Europe before his home country.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Kimono worn by Jimi Hendrix on stage.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Jimi Hendrix's waist coat and Marshall amp.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Herbie Hancock's moog.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
1971 costume worn on stage by Jermaine Jackson.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Bo Diddley's hat and guitar.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Jacket worn by Little Richard. In the UK, the Beatles gave credit to Richard for inspiring and influencing them.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
"Hound Dog" recorded originally by Big Mama Thornton. In the 1950s black music was not played on mainstream radio stations. The song only became famous when recorded by a European American singer, Elvis Presley.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Chuck Berry's guitar. Berry became world famous for Rock and Roll music.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Charlie Parker's King Super 20 saxophone.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
James Brown's stage cape. Soul music is popular around the world.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Louis Armstrong's Selmer trumpet. Armstrong was a world famous jazz musician.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Earth, Wind and Fire stage costume. Funk became popular around the world.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Dizzy Gillespie's Pudgy trumpet.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Ella Fitzgerald's dress. Fitzgerald was a world famous jazz singer.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Sammy Davis Junior's tap shoes.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Miles Davis' waist coat.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of African American History
|
 |
Dress worn by Dianna Ross in the 1972 movie, "Lady Sings the Blues".
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Steak and chips (which are called French fries in the USA).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
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Crab soup.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Japanese bento box.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Ice cream.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
The Natural History Museum.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
Olmec head from Mexico.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
No guns allowed.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
The museum has a conservation programme.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
The fossil section.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
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Fossil with reptile and bird features.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
Fossil of a bony tongued fish.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
Head of a carniverous dinosaur.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
Long necked dinosaur.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Natural History Museum
|
 |
The Hope Diamond from India dominates the gemstones room.
|
2024 |
