<I>Women singing at the NAACP Conference</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1967; printed later
name: label: Photograph by
content: Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A digital print depicting a black-and-white image of three women singing beside two men at the 1967 NAACP Conference in Albany, New York. Taken from the side, the three women, two in the front and one in the back, are the most centered. A microphone and podium are in front of the two women. A streak of light shines in the upper right quadrant.
label: Description
content: The woman most centered in the photograph is wearing a soda jerk hat printed with [RWDSU / LOCAL / 1199], a New York hospital and health care union affiliated with AFL-CIO. Her hands are clasped at her waist and she is wearing a mid-sleeve coat. The second woman is to the first woman’s proper left, who has her proper right hand raised at chest level and is wearing a dark-colored dress. To the second woman’s proper left is a man in a suit and a kufi hat. His face is covered by the microphone.
label: Description
content: The third woman, behind the first two, is presumably wearing dark coat with an illegible button or sticker on her proper right upper chest. A man is standing to her proper left, wearing presumably a black hat.
label: Description
content: There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Albany, Albany County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Political organizations
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.53.30
objectType: label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Frank Espada
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)