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    Melikian Collection > Collections > Artworks > African American
  • The ‘New Negro’ Directory
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Althea Gibson American Tennis Association Nationals Championship Trophy
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, Tennis
  • Bell Street Baptist Church Bombing Debris
    By Americana
    African American, Civil RIghts, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Rixley Family Bible
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, Bibles, Slavery, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Lobo Comic Book Series – Issue #2
    By Americana
    African American
  • Lobo Comic Book Series – Issue #1
    By Americana
    African American
  • Newspapers Relating to the Young Lords
    By Americana
    African American, Civil RIghts
  • Young Lords – A Rifle, a Militant, a Casket.
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Basketball, Civil RIghts
  • Items from the Film The Jackie Robinson Story
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Baseball
  • Reverend Major Jealous Divine Devotional Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Press Kit for the 1972 Film Malcolm X
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Martin Luther King with Baseball Star Monte Irvin and Ralph Abernathy – Photograph
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Vote for President Dick Gregory Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • New Testament Bible with Record of Slaves
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, Slavery, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Rocky Marciano vs. Muhammad Ali “The Super Fight” Multi-Signed Display
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Harlem Globetrotters Program – British Tour
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Basketball
  • Woman’s Suffrage: Satirical Bisque Figurine
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight Promotional Folder and Booklet
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) vs. Sonny Liston I & II Wire Photographs
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Angelo & Chris Dundee Ephemera
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • “The Super Fight” Film Reel and Ephemera
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Muhammad Ali Vietnam War Protest Rally Poster
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Muhammad Ali
  • “I am the Greatest” Promotional Poster
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee & Rocky Marciano Broadside Segmen
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Signed WBC Replica Championship Belt
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Muhammad Ali Training Used Jump Rope
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Hospital Guestbook from Birth of Angelo Dundee’s Son Signed by Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Sonny Liston Mink Gloves Created to Promote First Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Bout
    By Collector's Favorites, Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali, Oddities
  • Cassius Clay/Sonny Liston Photograph
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Althea Gibson Collection of Newspaper Articles, Letters
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Tennis
  • American Tennis Association Fourteenth National Championships-Official Bulletin
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Tennis
  • Contract Between Willie Mays and Ed Sullivan
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Julius Erving Ebony Magazine American Black Achievement Award
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Basketball
  • Muhammad Ali Signed Islam Pamphlet
    By Sports, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Islam, Muhammad Ali
  • Muhammad Ali vs. Rocky Marciano “The Super Fight” Theater Standup Display
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
  • Mickey Mouse Annual with Racist Comics
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Oddities, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Hall-Davis Presidential Campaign Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Angela Davis Voting Rights Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Correspondence for Angela Davis Trial
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Mormon Publication
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Oddities
  • Medger Evers Assassination Newspaper
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Medgar Evers Assassination
  • Civil War Confederate Covers
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK, Slavery
  • Program for for Medgar Evers Funeral Service
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Medgar Evers Assassination
  • Medgar Evers Memorial Photograph
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Medgar Evers Assassination
  • Medgar Evers signed NAACP Convention Book
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Medgar Evers Assassination
  • Record with Racist Songs
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Freedman’s Bank Letter
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Photographic Collection of Malcolm X
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Black Integration NAACP Zionists
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • FBI Black Crime Reports
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Martin Luther King Charm Necklace
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Rosa Parks Signed Check
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Integration in Washington DC
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Pamphlet Attacking Desegregation Decision
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Murder of Black Panther Booklet
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • “Free Billy Dean Smith” Booklet (#2)
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • “Up from the Bottom” Black Newspaper Featuring Vietnam
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • “Here and Now for Bobby Seale” Booklet
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Black Unity Americana Newspaper
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • “Up from the Bottom” Black Newspaper
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Black Panther Party Newspaper – Christmas Edition
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Guardian Newspaper feat. Angela Davis
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • “Up from the Bottom” Black Newspaper
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Black Panther Magazine
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • “Free Billy Dean Smith” Booklet (#1)
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Malcolm X Assassination Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Print of Washington and His Slaves
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Black Power Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Bulletin for African-American Tennis Championships
    By Sports, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Tennis
  • Anti-Civil Rights Bill Poster
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Poster for Malcolm X Film
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Anna Julia Cooper Letter to Supreme Court
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Political Cartoon
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Telegram from John F. Kennedy to Juanita Jackson
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Harry Truman Letter on Anti-Lynching Bill
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Underground Railroad Bible
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, Slavery, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Jim Crow Letter
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Malcolm X Movie Posters & Pressbook
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Confederate Estate Sale with Slaves
    By Americana
    African American, Slavery
  • Black TV Product Ban
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • National Negro Health Week Booklet
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • First Comic Strip with an African-American Title Character
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • African-American Folk Art Painting
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Black Panther Posters
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Runaway Slave Reward Document
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • NAACP Flyer to Bycott Stagg Beer
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Slave Wooden Doll
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Black Heritage Bible
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles
  • African-American Family Heirloom Bible
    By Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity
  • Black Heritage Bible
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Letter Seeking Black Families
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • New Orleans Slave Document
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • The History of the Slave Trade
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Slavery
  • Plantation Wooden Banjo
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, All Americana, Music, Slavery
  • Slave Triple Shackles
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • A KKK Robe, Hood, I.D. Card & Newsletters
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • Mears and Moss Family Bibles
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, Slavery, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Deacon’s Bench from Slave Prayer House
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • King James Bible Made for African-American Audience
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, The Bible, Racism and Slavery
  • Middle Passage Slave Shackles
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Two Plantation Slave Shackles
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Valmor Product Labels
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Advertisement for Black & Irish Slaves
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Confederate Covers with Racist Rhymes
    By Americana
    African American, Racism, White Supremacy, KKK
  • John Johnson Publishing Archive
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana
  • Pamphlets Defending Slavery
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Slavery
  • Malcolm X Posters
    By Americana
    African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts
  • Separatist Black Bible
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana, Religious
    African American, All Americana, Bibles, Christianity, Civil RIghts
  • Italian Racist Propaganda Poster
    By Collector's Favorites, Americana
    African American, Oddities

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Since 2004, the Melikian Collection has been assembling a unique assortment of unusual objects from around the world. The Collection tells many stories, some untold, some forgotten, and some that have survived despite the attempt to purge them from history. The Collection prides itself on finding rare items that expand our knowledge and challenge our notions of history. We hope you’ll enjoy perusing the Collection as much as we enjoy assembling it.

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