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African American History
- "In-out" sewing basket made by a Gullah craftsperson, Sea Islands, South Carolina, 1974-75
- Antislavery medallion, about 1787
- Button from March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
- Buttons supporting Shirley Chisholm for president, 1972
- Cap worn by Roy Wilkins during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963
- Drawing of an incandescent light fixture by Lewis Latimer, 1884
- Duke Ellington manuscript score for "Light," part of Black, Brown and Beige, about 1940
- Face jugs attributed to a slave potter in Edgefield, South Carolina, about 1850
- Ivory cane given to John Quincy Adams in 1844
- Jar made by David Drake, a slave artisan, 1862
- Lewis Latimer puppet, 1998
- Negro Leagues baseball, 1937
- Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood's Congressional Medal of Honor, 1865
- Shoes worn during the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
- Tintype, about 1890
- Woolworth's lunch counter, Greensboro, North Carolina, site of a 1960 civil rights sit-in
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