An oil painting of Marian Anderson in front of the Lincoln Memorial before her famous concert, by Betsy Graves Reyneau in 1955
A headshot of Maya Angelou, taken by Brigitte Lacombe in 1987
An oil painting of Mary McLeod Bethune, by Betsy Graves Reyneau in 1943
A bronze bust of Gwendolyn Brooks, by Sara S. Miller in 1994
A photograph of Elizabeth Catlett with one of her sculpted pieces, taken by Mariana Yampolsky in 1949
A photograph of Shirley Chisholm, taken by Richard Avedon on July 12, 1976
A screen print on foil of Angela Davis, by Elizabeth Catlett in 1972
A photograph of Ruby Dee with her husband, Ossie Davis, taken by Anthony Barboza in 1977
A photograph of Ella Fitzgerald at the mic with Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Milt Jackson, taken by William Paul Gottlieb in 1947
A poster advertising Aretha Franklin, by Milton Glaser in 1968
A watercolor and graphite painting of Althea Gibson with a tennis ball, by Boris Chaliapin in 1957
A photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer singing, taken by Charmain Reading in 1966
An oil painting of Lena Horne in an evening gown, by Edward Biberman in 1947
A photograph of Judith Jamison performing the dance “Cry,” taken by Max Walden in 1976
A photograph of Barbara Jordan, taken by Richard Avedon on July 14, 1976
An advertisement for Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Dangerous in Love CD, by Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri in 2003
A photograph of Toni Morrison, taken by Helen Marcus in 1978
An oil painting of former First Lady Michelle Obama, by Amy Sherald in 2018
A limewood painted sculpture of Rosa Parks with police officers, by Marshall D. Rumbaugh in 1983
A screen print with rhinestones of Condoleezza Rice titled When Ends Meet, made by Mickalene Thomas in 2007 and 2008
A hand-painted quilt made by Faith Ringgold in 1998, documenting moments in her Harlem childhood, based on her autobiographical book Seven Passages to a Flight
A photograph of Diana Ross with Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, taken by Bruce Davidson in 1965
A photograph of Wilma Rudolph racing, taken by George Silk in 1960
A photograph of Ntozake Shange, taken by Anthony Barboza in 1977
A photograph of Sojourner Truth, taken by Randall Studio circa 1870
A photograph of Harriet Tubman, taken by H. Seymour Squyer circa 1885
A photograph of Ida B. Wells, taken by Sallie E. Garrity circa 1893
A paper engraving of Phillis Wheatley, created in 1773 by an unknown illustrator
A photograph of Venus and Serena Williams, taken by Annie Leibovitz in 1998
A photograph of Oprah Winfrey, taken by Brigitte Lacombe in 2009