Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
Newspaper clipping about student artists at Coolidge High School
late 1960s
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A newspaper clipping with a brief article of a student at Washington, DC's Calvin Coolidge High School on each side. The clipping is printed in black text on off-white paper. One side features a black-and-white image and biography of student Susan Dopp and the other side has an image and biography of student Wendy Wilson. Each student is being recognized for their artistic talent and large text at the bottom of the Wilson side reads [the artists]. The clipping is from the collection of civil rights activist Jan Bailey and had a number of pinback buttons attached to the clipping: 2013.201.1.23.2 Pinback button for a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. 2013.201.1.23.3 Pinback button memorializing Malcolm X. 2013.201.1.23.4 Pinback button for the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) 2013.201.1.23.5 Button reading "I Like Buff" 2013.201.1.23.6 Pinback button for the Black National Political Convention.
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Catalog reference: 2013.201.1.23.1
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