Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Age Levels High School (16 to 18 years old), Post-Secondary, Adults
In an upcoming exhibition, titled Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., African American changemakers will be highlighted to illustrate their outstanding legacy and contributions. These individuals are icons often rendered invisible by a country, yet uplifted by a major culture. The following images showcase the legacy of men and women featured in the exhibition, illuminating their greatest works, interactions with the community, and so forth. Ever individual, whether featured in the exhibit or Learning Lab, affirm the power of the African American journey and, ultimately, the American experience.
As you navigate throughout this Learning Lab, take notice of the various sections the Men of Change are divided into; such as Storytellers, Myth-breakers, Fathering, Community, Imagining, Catalysts and Loving.
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Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.
Reggye Green
Section 01: Storytellers
Reggye
Dance tells a story
National Portrait Gallery
Poems by Sterling Brown [and] poems by Langston Hughes [sound recording]
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Ralph Waldo Ellison
National Portrait Gallery
Oscar Micheaux's Program for Swing
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Richard Pryor
National Portrait Gallery
Section 02: Myth-breakers
Reggye Green
Banner for a carnival booth featuring Jack Johnson
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson's corner of the ring
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jersey for the St. Louis Cardinals worn by Curt Flood
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jackie Robinson
National Portrait Gallery
Bryan Stevenson: The Legal Crusader
Smithsonian Magazine
Jesse Owens
National Portrait Gallery
Fathering (Divider)
Reggye Green
Arthur Ashe
National Portrait Gallery
Serena and Venus
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Art Blakey
National Portrait Gallery
The Big Beat
National Museum of American History
Georgetown Starter jacket
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Wynton Marsalis
National Portrait Gallery
Booker T. Washington
National Portrait Gallery
Section 04: Community
Reggye Green
Howard Thurman
National Portrait Gallery
Geoffrey Canada
Marco Grob for TIME
Section 05: Imagining
Reggye Green
What is Jazz? - Lesson Plan
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Marvin Gaye at the recording session for "Let's Get It On"
National Portrait Gallery
Michael Jackson
National Portrait Gallery
Poster of James Brown
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Section 06: Catalysts
Reggye Green
Bishop Richard Allen
National Portrait Gallery
Mary Church Terrell
National Portrait Gallery
Booker T. Washington Revelation
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Color slide of Poitier and Belafonte at a fundraiser at Boston Garden
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Malcolm's Legacy
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Malcolm X praying in a mosque in Cairo, Egypt,1964
John Launois
Emmett Till's Open Casket Funeral Reignited the Civil Rights Movement
Smithsonian Magazine
Till boy's funeral, Burr Oaks Cemetary [sic]
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Black Delegates Challenge Mississippi Democrats
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Life Magazine, March 19, 1965
National Museum of American History
Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Black Panther demonstration, Alameda Co. Court House, Oakland, California, during Huey Newton's trial, #71
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Civil Rights and the 1960s
TeachingAmericanHistory.org
The Negro woman [sound recording] / compiled and edited by Jean M. Brannon ; read by Dorothy Washington
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Trayvon Martin, Livonia Ave. at Jerome, Brooklyn, 2015
Library of Congress
Poster reading "Solidarity" used at Ferguson protests
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Time Vol. 188 No. 13
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Section 07: Loving
Reggye Green
Love illuminating through family
Smithsonian American Art Museum
News clipping from the New York Times
National Museum of African American History and Culture
