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Early Football Game, 1920s.
Photo of FAMU football game in the 1920s -
Band Leading Commencement Photo of FAMU Marching 100 Band leading commencement ceremony in the 1940s -
Band in Paris, France 1989 Photo of FAMU Marching 100 in Paris, France -
All Male Military Class 1920s Photo of all male military class in the 1920s -
Easy for One, Hard for Two Oil on canvas -
Country Church Wood cut -
Iman, Venice, and Pears Etching -
Fannie Lou Hamer Lithograph -
Neshoba Spectre Collage -
Turquoise Hemp rug/hanging -
Swirl Hemp -
Doll Hemp rug/hanging made at Elaborada Toalmente A Mano of 100% fibra de Maguey-Guatemala -
Floating Circles Wove jute fiber wall-hanging -
Frankye Adams-Johnson Frankye Adams-Johnson was born in Pocahontas, Mississippi to a family of sharecroppers. As a teenager in Jackson, Mississippi, she participated in the NAACP, COFO, and SNCC as a youth organizer and was heavily involved in the Jackson civil rights movement in 1963. In 1964, she enrolled at Tougaloo College where she continued to be involved in civil rights demonstrations. After moving to New York in 1967, she co-organized the White Plains branch of the Black Panther Party. Adams-Johnson became a college professor in the 1980s, and returned to Jackson from New York in 1999, where she began work as an adjunct professor at Jackson State University in 1999. She became a full-time professor in 2003 until retiring in 2014. -
William D. Lamson William D. Lamson was a demographer and cartographer and served as an expert witness for the NAACP, ACLU, United States Department of Justice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and numerous private plaintiffs. He was an architect/planner and demographic analyst for court cases dealing with school desegregation, voting rights, housing discrimination, and judicial redistricting. He performed three functions for his clients: director and coordinator of factual research; principal factual analyst; and evidence presentation consultant. In those capacities he provided factual and expert testimony, and graphic representations of the research results (most notably with large maps with his illustrations presented in court rooms). William D. Lamson was a native of Detroit, Michigan (b. September 14, 1941) and was living in Jackson, Mississippi at the time of his death (February 8, 1995). While in Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and the Lawrence Institute of Technology, and was also a founding faculty member of Wayne County Community College. He was also a veteran of the United States Army. Lamson worked on over 20 legal cases and served as an expert on voting rights, housing discrimination, and demographics in more than 10 other cases. -
[unknown] abstract ceramic sculpture glazed in red, green, brown, and white, has small opening at top -
[unknown] male figure, dark brown wood on pedestal -
[wounded soldier] full-body sculpture of soldier slouching to side, head faced down -
[carved horn] top of horn has small figure carved into end -
[bust] dark brown bust, pointed chin with separated large strands in hair, engraved carving in center of forehead -
[mask] lightweight mask, dark brown and red, with horns on top of mask, swirl like carvings engraved in upper part of mask -
[mask] lightweight wood mask, dark brown -
[mask] lightweight wood, circular mask, holes around perimeter -
[mask] lightweight wood, oval-shaped mask with holes around perimeter
