Rescuing, Preserving, Documenting and Exhibiting the
Courage of African Americans over the Past Four Centuries.

The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History spans four centuries, consisting of well over
5,000 individual pieces -- defying description both in scope and content. Here is one of the highlights...

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FAMOUS ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER -- Original hand-colored illustration by Currier & Ives of the first Northern
black regiment recruited during the Civil War.  This was the final action scene in the major motion picture "GLORY."
 

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