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This is from the State Libary of Louisiana record of a B&W photo, 1930s. Voodoo culture. New Orleans, La. Photograph of Lala, a well-known New Orleans voodoo queen performing a ceremony with candles

This is from the State Libary of Louisiana record of a B&W photo, 1930s. Voodoo culture. New Orleans, La. Photograph of Lala, a well-known New Orleans voodoo queen.

This clipping from an unidentified newspaper source provides readers with the author's perspective on and summary of the televised adaptation of Ernest Gaines' short story "The Sky is Gray." The text contains an analysis of the themes and the lesson…

A painting of The Shadows on the Tech Plantation, Greek Revival, antebellum home. The focal point is the Cypress trees with hanging Spanish Moss.

A newspaper clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle of William Hogan's book review.

xcerpt of Interview with Uncle Billy McCrea, Jasper, Texas, 1940 (part 2 of 2). Transcript: Yes, yes. Now I'll tell you when slavery, way back in slavery time, I was standing at, that's when the Negro was free. I would, we all would go out every day,…

An excerpt of an interview conducted with Alice Gaston, a formerly enslaved person in Gee's Bend, Alabama

Handwritten draft of "A Long Day in November"

Kendal and Nyran Gonthier hold 14 month old Nyomi at the Black Lives Matter Event on Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington, D.C.