Photographs and printed ephemera documenting Prince Hall–affiliated fraternal organizations in the 1950s establish a record of African American civic, ritual, and social life during segregation, when Black institutions operated as central structures for leadership, mutual aid, and public identity. The archive identifies members of the Prince Hall Shriners and the.....
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, with James D. Houston and John Korty. Farewell to Manzanar screenplay, 1975, documents the translation of Japanese American incarceration experience into widely circulated visual narrative during the postwar period of increased public reckoning with World War II civil liberties violations. Adapted from Wakatsuki Houston’s 1973 memoir, the.....
Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1969 issue. This newspaper documents the public return of the Apollo 11 crew immediately after the first successful manned lunar landing, preserving one of the defining moments of twentieth-century space history in a contemporaneous mass-circulation format later signed by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to.....
[African American] Two Trains Running play by August Wilson, the sixth in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in Civil Rights era 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pen. August Wilson depict a black urban class struggle in America, and the play's.....
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space . Sally Ride High School Yearbook: 1967 Westlake School for Girls - Vox Puellarum Yearbook (Los Angeles, California), 1967. Ride attended private Westlake School in Los Angeles on a scholarship.[3] In addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked.....
Los Angeles Herald. February 8, 1915 issue documenting the Los Angeles opening and local promotion of D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, then advertised as The Clansman, a technically influential motion picture whose racist portrayal of African Americans and heroic treatment of the Ku Klux Klan made it.....
An early and rare stereoview of Los Angeles, California, taken between 1860 and 1870. View shows a busy street scene with many buggy's and delivery wagons. The store at the center is Levy & Coblentz liquor and tobacco store. The mount is on yellow card stock and has a nice.....
[Chicano] [Film] Chicano gang film Walk Proud. University City Studios, 1979. Original movie poster measuring 27" x 41" in vibrant color, featuring a powerful image of Robby Benson with his arms wrapped around Sarah Halcomb.. Walk Proud is a 1979 American hood drama film directed by Robert L. Collins starring.....
