MARTIN LUTHER KING. Early draft of the Letter from Birmingham Jail.

(ENTERTAINMENT--DANCE.) Diary, photographs, and correspondence of modern dance legend Katherine Dunham.

(LITERATURE.) 4 issues of Black Opals, the legendary limited-edition literary journal.

BENJAMIN BANNEKER. Bannekers Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of our Lord, 1793.

(ENTERTAINMENT--DANCE.) Katherine Dunham. Large group of letters by the modern dance star to a close friend.

(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) Samuel M. Fassett, photographer. Scarce carte de visite portrait of Douglass, with his signature on verso.

(LITERATURE.) Phillis Wheatley. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

(ENTERTAINMENT--DANCE.) Group of photographs of the short-lived but influential New York Negro Ballet Company.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [McPherson & Oliver; photographers.] [The Scourged Back.]

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude.

MARTIN LUTHER KING. Reel-to-reel tape recording of Dr. King speaking to the SCLC board, January 1968.

(LITERATURE.) Letters to poet and editor Nellie Bright from Jessie Redmon Fauset, Laura Wheeler Waring, and more.

(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Bounty list for enlisted soldiers, including two Black soldiers.

(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) Dallas bus segregation sign.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) Letters by a Union occupation soldier, one describing the infamous New Orleans Massacre of 1866.

(MUSIC.) E. Simms Campbell, artist. A Night-Club Map of Harlem, featured in the inaugural issue of Manhattan:

(BUSINESS.) Paul Cuffe. Invoice drawn up and signed by perhaps the young nations leading Black merchant.

(ART.) Loïs Mailou Jones. Original portrait of activist Sue Bailey Thurman, done for the 1942 Twelve American Women calendar.

(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) Door from the colored washroom of a North Carolina fertilizer plant.

(LITERATURE.) Susan Paul. Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar,

(HAITI.) Toussaint Louverture. Signed letter discussing friction with the remaining French officials in Haiti.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Letter concerning his rival Richard Greener.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of press photographs and ephemera relating to the Scottsboro Boys.

(ART.) Archive of sketches, correspondence, and other papers of Masood Ali Wilbert Warren.

(MUSIC--HIP HOP.) Kool Lance. Original maquette for the 1982 Cultural Freebee Jam flyer, with the printed flyer.

(FOOD AND DRINK.) Robert Roberts. House Servant’s Directory.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) J. Hoover, lithographer. Heroes of the Colored Race.

(ART.) Jacob Lawrence. Olympische Spiele München 1972.

(MUSIC--HIP HOP.) Poster for opening night of Run DMCs Raising Hell tour.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Papers of slaveowner John W. Luke of Berryville, Virginia.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Jasper L. Hall. Letter describing the defeat of slave catchers in a pitched battle with ten fugitives.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Signed photograph of Lewis G. Clarke, inspiration for the escaped slave in Uncle Toms Cabin.

(ART.) AfriCOBRA 1: Ten in Search of a Nation.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Pair of photographs of a CORE sit-in at a New Orleans Woolworths lunch counter.

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Tintype portrait of a servant named Gabriel with a Rhode Island artillery battery.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) James C. Beard; artist. The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870.

(BLACK PANTHERS.) An Attack Against One is an Attack Against All.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) U.M. Fisk. Series of manuscript lectures by an abolitionist firebrand before, during and after the war.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Joint Resolution . . . Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution . . . Abolishing Slavery.

(LITERATURE.) Press photograph of young Langston Hughes as a busboy.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS; editor. Early issue of the North Star,

(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Papers of Margaret P. Simmons of the Womens Army Corps.

(MUSIC--HIP HOP.) Group of hip-hop flyers.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Archive of NAACP correspondence from James Weldon Johnson, Walter White and more.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Broadside announcing the formation of an Anti-Negro Stealing Society to fight the Underground Railroad.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom . . . Lincoln Memorial Program.

(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) The North Star, volume II, issue 13.

(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Pair of pay documents for Black soldier Samuel Pomp.

(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) Colored Upstairs sign from a Georgia cinema.

(ART.) Loïs Mailou Jones, artist. Calendar: Twelve American Women, 1942.

(MUSIC.) Poster for a Nina Simone concert.

(ART.) Dana C. Chandler. Jr. Genocide Series No. 1: Noddin Our Liberation Away!

(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Black Panther: Black Community News Service.

(BLACK PANTHERS.) Free Huey Rally, Oakland Auditorium . . . Featuring Stokely Carmichael.

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Muster roll of a company of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guards.

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Negroes to be Sold! . . . Twenty-Two Likely Negroes.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Louis Lo Monaco. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome.

(LITERATURE.) Wallace Thurman. Letter promoting (and defending) his literary journal Fire!!

(WOMENS HISTORY.) I knew that if the people stood together we would win--Joanne Little.

(ART.) Group of 14 photographs of early Jacob Lawrence paintings, most of them now lost.