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Photograph of Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan

ca. 1959

Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This black and white photograph depicts Malcolm X, seated, looking upwards. He wears a dark suit with two pens in his breast pocket. On his left is Louis Farrakhan wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and dark bow tie. On Malcolm X's left is a young woman in the white uniform and headscarf of the member of the Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class. The back of the photograph has a Lloyd Yearwood stamp.

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Catalog reference: 2014.150.7.45

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