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Photograph of Daphne Muse and Natalie Riddick

November 14, 2023

Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California, 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.

A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Natalie Riddick, at Muse’s home in Brentwood, California. Riddick was part of the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project and interviewed Muse. The top view image captures both women next to each other. Riddick, on the left, wears a grey/purple long-sleeved shirt with a headband. Muse, on the right, wears a red long-sleeved shirt with a black-and-crème patterned pants, a black headband, and colorful earrings. In the background is a single blue armchair on the right and an artwork directly behind them.

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Catalog reference: 2025.12.9.6

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