At the National Museum of African American History and Culture

• The black velvet skirt and the decorative trim from the jacket Marian Anderson wore at the April 9, 1939, Lincoln Memorial performance

• A newspaper clipping from the New York Times reviewing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• A photograph of Mary McLeod Bethune’s statue in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, taken by Milton Williams in 1974

• A Black Lives Matter T-shirt from 2015, also featuring other slogans associated with the movement, including “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”

• A paperback edition of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Riot, a poem told in three parts; her novel Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali; and a first-edition hardcover of Annie Allen

★ Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign poster that reads “Bring U.S. Together” and 1972 presidential campaign buttons that include the slogans “Unbought and Unbossed,” “Let’s Get to the Chisholm of the Problem,” and “Catalyst for Change,” as well as her autobiography Unbought and Unbossed

A Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign poster.

• Prints of famous history makers like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Phillis Wheatley created by artist Elizabeth Catlett

★ A button featuring airwoman Bessie Coleman from the mid to late twentieth century

The photo in this Bessie Coleman pin is the same one used on her pilot’s license issued by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

• Angela Davis’s FBI Wanted poster issued in 1970, and a pin commemorating “Angela Is Free”

• The 1961 lobby card for A Raisin in the Sun and St. Louis Blues, both featuring actress Ruby Dee

• Ava DuVernay’s short film titled August 28: A Day in the Life of a People, which tracks significant moments in African American history that occurred on this date over decades

★ Ella Fitzgerald’s marigold cocktail dress designed by Don Loper

A dress worn by Ella Fitzgerald in the 1950s.

• A Stevie Wonder songbook, Stevie Wonder Thought Shares, featuring the work of Aretha Franklin, among others

★ Althea Gibson’s 1957 Wightman Cup medal and blazer, 1995 American Tennis Association membership card, and tennis racket cover

An off-white blazer gifted to Althea Gibson in 1957, courtesy of the United States Tennis Association.

• A photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, taken by Louis H. Draper in 1964

• Dorothy Irene Height on the cover of Tuesday Magazine in March 1970

• Lena Horne’s dresser set, including her hand mirror, hairbrush, and nail file, among other items; a poster advertising her performance at the Olympia Music Hall in 1954; and the green velvet dress she wore in the film Stormy Weather

• A signed first-edition hardcover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• A commemorative pin from Mae Jemison’s space shuttle mission STS-47

• A photograph of NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson taken by Annie Leibovitz in 2016

• A pin advertising 1992 Democratic National Convention speaker Barbara Jordan

★ Several dresses made in the 1960s by seamstress and stylist Ann Lowe featuring her intricate silk flower work

Ann Lowe designed this pink satin and organza dress in 1959.

• Photographs of Toni Morrison with her sons, Harold Ford Morrison and Slade Morrison, taken by Jack Mitchell in 1978

• A photograph of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama taken by Mariana Cook in 1996

★ Rosa Parks, photographed in 1991 by Roderick J. Lyons, and a dress she sewed between 1955 and 1956

Rosa Parks sewed this belted wrap dress between 1955 and 1956. The dress is made from a plain weave viscose fabric with a yellow and brown flower and leaf pattern.

• Faith Ringgold’s evocative poster calling for Angela Davis’s freedom(1971)

• A copy of Diana Ross and The Supremes & The Temptations on Broadway: Original TV Soundtrack, released in 1969

• A souvenir program celebrating Wilma Rudolph Day on October 4, 1960, in Clarksville, Tennessee

• The playbill from Ntozake Shange’s November 1977 production of for colored girls who have considered suicide and the costumes for the Lady in Purple, the Lady in Orange, and the Lady in Red

• Nina Simone’s 1964 record Mississippi *@!!?*@! and Sea Lion Woman, a card promoting her piano recital in 1954 when she was still using her birth name Eunice Waymon, and photographs of her singing at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1969

• An 1863 portrait of Sojourner Truth, as well as her carte de visite and cabinet card

★ Harriet Tubman’s gospel hymn book, handkerchief, silk lace and linen shawl, and a brick from her home

★ A tin of Madam C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, and her convention badge from the 1920s

Madam C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower was sold in the 1910s and 1920s.

• A statue of Venus and Serena Williams and photographs of the girls playing tennis in 1991

★ Oprah Winfrey’s gold microphone used during season 24 of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and three red giant bows from her famous car giveaway