“The First Colored Senator and Representatives. In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States."
Group portrait of African American legislators: Robert C. De Large, Jefferson H. Long, H.R. Revels, Benj. S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, Joseph H. Rainy [i.e., Rainey], and R. Brown Elliot.
Lithograph, 1872. New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau Street.
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'Photograph of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg. Is Hayti decadent?
Issued: 1904. Image and original data from the New York Public Library. No Copyright – United States.'
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
"Featured in this collection are more than 2,000 images from the Schomburg Center, one of the world’s leading cultural institutions on the African American experience. Most focus on early community leaders and institutions in the United States: schools, churches, the military, and businesses. The works range from glimpses of Africa in the 1800s to 20th century protests."
"Frederick Douglass" by Cynthia Nirlsen
