William T. Rogers wearing the Ararat No. 49 Shriner's fez with the word "Potentate" clearly visible, and the neck ribbon with the Shriner symbols.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, peeks over a cymbal as he plays a drum set at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County...
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Blues drummer and vocalist Willie "The Touch" Hayes purses his lips and looks over his left shoulder as he plays a drum set while wearing a dark...
Willie Cobbs closes his eyes and scrunches his face and forms his left hand into a fist as he sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at...
Blues double bassist Willie Dixon laughs as he hugs his arms around the neck of his bass. He wears a light colored fedora hat and a light colored...
Willie King, wearing a Michael Johnathon WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour ball cap, sits in a lawn chair, leaning his chin on his right hand, and smiles...
A studio portrait of Willis Porter wearing his hat tipped on the back of his head, an overcoat and suit jacket held open by Willis' hands in his...
Soul singer Wilson Pickett looks directly at the camera as he rests his hands on his bent left knee. He wears a business suit and tie with a tie tack...
Wilson Pickett crouches with his eyes closed while holding the microphone in his left hand as he performs during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Wilson Pickett, one of the national acts at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, closes his eyes, makes a fist with his right hand and sings into...
Buck Clayton posing for a photo with Roland Lobligeois at a concert in Nice, France.
An unidentified African American woman wearing a tied capelet over a light-colored dress stands behind an unidentified African American man sitting on...
A profile photograph of a Mexican American woman, Sally Ramos, smiling as she speaks into a microphone attached to a lectern that she stands behind. A...
Two unidentified African American women flanking Dowdal Davis outside on a concrete wall of a building's steps. The base of an ornate iron light post...
An unidentified African American woman standing in a side pose in front of a house with an unidentified African American man in a hat walking in the...
An unidentified African American man sitting in the front passenger seat of a car and looking out the window and resting his right elbow on the window...
Three workmen (two white, one African American) stand on the ground to help to anchor the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a...
An unidentified African American man, from his left side, dressed in a suit, is seated while writing at a desk. Behind him is a fireplace with many...
Buck Clayton watching as jazz students practice during class, including one African American woman singing, in New York City.
A head shot portrait of an unidentified African American World War I soldier without the hat.
Yard Squad, a reggae band from Saint Louis, Missouri comprised of five African American men, stand together in a close cropped photograph. Printed in...
Yobosó, a Latin jazz band comprised of three white men and one African American man, stand together grinning and playing their instruments: conga drum...
Portrait of an unidentified young African American couple with their arms around each other and wearing heavy coats and hats.
Young African American boy patient in a public examination at a clinic. The boy is sitting on a hospital bed with a white male doctor sitting and...
