“RENEWING AMERICA:  Pictures of Promise”
Commemorates Black History Month and NAACP Centennial

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Addison Scurlock (1883-1964)	The Scurlock Photography Family	P.B.S. Pinchback (1837-1921)	Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)	William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois (1868-1963)
Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919)	Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)	Mary McLoed Bethune (1875-1955)	Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950)	Duke "Ellington and Guests (1899-1974) image taken in 1956
Entrepreneurs of Underdown Delicatessen c. 1904	Lillian Evanti (1890-1967)	Marian Anderson Concert at Lincoln Memorial (1897-1993)	Marian Anderson Concert - View of The National Mall, 1939	NAACP Ball in Baltimore, Maryland, 1912
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (1919-1972)	Benjamin O. Davis. Jr. (1912-2002)	Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Howard University (1929-1968)	March on Washington, 1963
Dunbar High Championship Basketball Team with Charles Drew c. 1922	Camp Clarissa Scott picnic at Highland Beach, Maryland c. 1931	Annabelle Howards mother’s wedding, c. 1920s	Ballet Dancers taught by Doris Patterson, c. 1948	Mrs. Esther Popel Shaw and daughter Patricia, c. 1930

Photographs courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution’s Archive Center, National Museum of American History and Behring Center.