[Education] [African American] Boydton Academic and Bible Institute opened in 1879 in Boydton, Virginia, with the intent of training African American educational teachers and Christian preachers. Sepia cabinet card photograph depicting an all-Black baseball game on campus. 3.5" x 4.5", on original plain mount, with period manuscript caption on verso.....
Mark, Bill. Photographs of Sammy Davis Jr. These large-format silver gelatin photographs document Sammy Davis Jr. as both a performing artist and a public figure engaged in interracial social and political networks during the civil rights era. Produced in the 1960s, the images capture Davis at a moment when he.....
[African American Sports] Archive of Joe Louis comics and magazines tracing the public reception and popularity of the Black heavyweight champion in pop culture including his military service, controversy, and status as a patriotic icon and role model after defeating Max Schmeling. 1937 to 1950. The six titles show how.....
Albumen photograph, circa 1910s, depicting an integrated boys’ baseball team identified as “Westwood,” with direct relevance to the study of race, youth athletics, and segregation in early twentieth-century America. The image shows a group of adolescent players in uniform posed with their coach on stone steps before a brick building.....
Unidentified photographer. Integrated men’s football team photograph, 1950s, documents African American athletic participation and coaching presence in organized football during the decade after professional football’s formal reintegration in 1946. The image supports research into race, athletics, coaching authority, and the uneven integration of American football in the postwar period, when.....
Archive of photographs and printed material documenting public health response, activist mobilization, medical research, and media representation during the AIDS crisis between 1988 and 1993. The material records responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through protest campaigns, educational outreach, scientific research, public-awareness initiatives, and international health conferences involving hospitals, advocacy organizations.....
Gibson, Althea signed photograph, circa 1970, documents the public legacy of the first Black player admitted to the U.S. National Championships and one of the central figures in the desegregation of international tennis. Gibson won major singles titles at the French Championships, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Nationals, and her 1950.....
Ali, Muhammad signed photograph documents the public image of the African American heavyweight champion whose athletic career intersected with civil rights politics, antiwar dissent, religious identity, and twentieth-century mass media. Ali became the first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions, a boxing milestone confirmed by.....
African American cultural leaders of mid-century Los Angeles gathered at a nightclub event in an original silver gelatin press photograph. Los Angeles, ca. 1940s. Measuring 10" x 8". Photographer’s stamp to verso: “Ted Merriman / Photo / VA 481.” Contemporary pencil caption reads: “L.A. Club – Los Angeles / L......
Archive of three photographs from the 1930s-1940s captures three African American boxers. One photo shows two boxers, the "Gold Dust Twins" in action in the ring, while another shows "Black Jack Lorenzo Pack" posing with fists clenched in the ring. Black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring 10" x 8".....
Owens, Jesse. 1977 press reissue of Owens sprinting at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, preserving an image of the four time gold medalist whose victories in Berlin directly contradicted Nazi claims of Aryan racial superiority before an international audience. Owens won the 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 x......
Muhammad Ali Press Photo Archive. Contains 3 silver gelatin original press photos measuring each 7" x 7," 8" x 8," and 6.5" x 6.5." One photograph shows Ali in training; he practices jumping rope. Photo verso is stamped 1971. Another photograph shows Ali in a suit and tie as he.....
[African American][Sports][Entertainment] Arthur Ashe. A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1619-1918.and the Second volume: Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1918-1945. New York: Warner Books, 1988. First edition. Hardcover with DJ. Ashe, a tennis champion and civil rights advocate, sought to correct.....
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete Since 1946. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. A rare uncorrected proof of A Hard Road to Glory, Arthur Ashe’s definitive history of African American athletes, chronicling their struggles and triumphs in the post-World.....
[African American][Sports][Civil Rights] Owens, Jesse with Paul G. Neimark. Blackthink: My Life As Black Man and White Man. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1970. First edition. Black cloth-backed boards, housed in original black dust jacket with photo of Owens in 1935 on the rear panel. A candid and controversial.....
Robinson, Frazier “Slow,” with Paul Bauer. Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues, 1999, preserves a catcher’s firsthand account of professional Black baseball across the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. Robinson recounts the athletic labor, racial discrimination, extensive travel, unstable rosters, barnstorming schedules, friendships, and communal life.....
