Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke crouched down and talking to a young white boy patient in a high chair with a tray as African...
Spoon Wilson and D.C. Bellamy, standing wearing beefeater costumes, and an unidentified African American woman, have crowned Little Hatch the king...
L. Perry Cookingham sitting at table with Harriette W. Cookingham receiving stack of pancakes from an African American woman dressed as Aunt Jemima at...
KoKo Taylor, blues singer, smiles at the camera as she crosses her arms and bends forward slightly to rest on her elbows. She holds a vintage...
KoKo Taylor, blues singer, smiles at the camera as she crosses her arms across her chest. The stage lights make a crisscross pattern above her head...
KoKo Taylor and Debbie Davies, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, share a microphone as they sing together.
Koko Taylor, from her right side, scrunches her face as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at...
Koko Taylor, neck and chest wet with perspiration, closes her eyes and lifts her head to her right, as she smiles and sings into a microphone she is...
KoKo Taylor, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and sings, wide-mouthed, into a microphone held in her right...
L'il Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, a blues band comprised of one African American man, three African American women, and seven white men, sit...
Unidentified African American female lab technician leaning over a glass table with pharmacological formulas handwritten on the table top which holds...
Unidentified African American female lab technician leaning over a glass table with pharmacological formulas handwritten on the table top which holds...
Unidentified African American female lab technician leaning over a glass table with pharmacological formulas handwritten on the table top which holds...
Unidentified African American female lab technician leaning over a glass table with pharmacological formulas handwritten on the table top which holds...
Unidentified African American woman working at a piece of equipment in the cardiovascular lab. She's wearing a lab coat and is mostly turned away from...
An unidentified African American woman in a nurse's uniform (left) and an unidentified white woman in a lab coat (right) working in Dr. Stanley...
From left to right, four African American women, Ethel, Etta, Cornelia, and Lizzie, stand wearing nice clothes on the steps outside of the Marland...
Lady Red, from the left, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone she's holding in her right hand while her fingers on her left hand are splayed...
A large group of various unidentified African American people dressed in suits and dresses seated and standing in a room. The front few rows are...
Nurse Dorothy Wells standing by the bed an African American girl patient is sitting on before moving in the new Children's Mercy Hospital building...
A studio portrait of Laura Hutchinson, of St. Louis, Missouri, sitting on a bench in front of a window with the blinds closed. She wears a dark suit...
Group photograph of the African American female Lecture Hour students under the direction of Rosa B. Johnson standing in rows on the steps of the...
Close up of line of white male police officers with gas masks armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall. One officer in the middle...
Lena Rivers Smith, a journalist and on-air reporter, is standing in front of a line of police officers wearing gas masks and armed with tear gas...
Line of police officers wearing gas masks and armed with tear gas, batons, and riot guns outside City Hall. Behind them is a group of African...
