Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall with NMAAHC scholar activists

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activists, Isabella Salcedo and Phoebe Linnell, at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which Guy-Sheftall helped establish. Salcedo interviewed Guy-Sheftall for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures Salcedo and Linnell flank Guy-Sheftall, slightly crouching behind her while she sits. The three women look directly into the camera and smile. Salcedo, crouching on the left, wears a black shirt with burgundy pants. Guy-Sheftall, sitting on the right, has orange glasses. She wears a black-and white shirt with orange, yellow, black, and white geometric, cross-stitch patterns. Linnell, crouching on the right, wears a crème colored jacket over a multi-colored top.

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