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June Jordan teaching at the City College of New York, ca. 1967-1976 [Wendy's Subway, Brooklyn, NY. Courtesy June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

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In celebration of Pride month, we present this image of gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) a self-identified drag queen and a prominent figure in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, was known as "the mayor of Christopher Street." This photograph is part of the Schlesinger Library's "Catching the Wave: Photographs of the Women's Movement by Bettye Lane and Freda Leinwand" project. For more information, see http://catchingthewave.library.harvard.edu/. Caption: Marsha Johnson speaks at Intro 384 gay and lesbian civil rights event in Sheridan Square. Photo by Bettye Lane. Copyright: Estate of Bettye Lane

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It’s graduation season - congrats to everyone graduating this spring. Here’s a portrait of Maud Wood Park in cap and gown, 1898.

From the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University

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Angela Y. Davis, b. January 26, 1944 / 2026

(image: Bullet proof cage surrounds Angela Davis as she performs in 'Night with Angela Davis' at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, 1972. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

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Postcard from the Angela Y. Davis Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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Women in Support of arrested Angela Davis, n.d. [Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

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Ashley D. Farmer, Queen Mother. Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2025 [Good Books, Atlanta, GA. Reparations Club, Los Angeles, CA]

Portrait of Audley "Queen Mother" Moore; Photo: © Judith Sedwick [Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA]

Plus: Kimberly Henderson (Digital Curator, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), The Legacy of Audley "Queen Mother" Moore and Her Battlecry for Reparations, New York Public Library, New York, NY, December 13, 2022

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June Jordan, Poem about My Rights, «Essence», November 1978 [June Jordan papers, (MC 513, 64.47), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. © June Jordan]

«Poem about My Rights by June Jordan first appeared in Essence in November 1978. Jordan continued to correct the poem.» ― June Jordan papers