First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.

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First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
DateJune 16, 1975
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 10 in. (17.1 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (16.2 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.267
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Recto, left side: "[(CX3) CHICAGO, June 16--FIRST APPEARANCE-- Wallace D. Muhammad, le(illegible) / gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It/ [...] his first public appearance since he succeeded his father as lead[er] / of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among / Muslims and for the supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black / Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks. (AP Wirephoto) (ejk21034trib) 1975]"
Inscribed Recto, left: "Wallace D. Muhammed" is circled, "Black Muslims" is underlined
Verso, lower left corner: "CVL-LDX-264" and "2500"
Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
Date: March 1, 1965
Medium: Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.268
Comedian Dick Gregory (white suit-center) leaves wagon that brought him from House of Correction for court appearance here. Gregory was arrested August 12 during demonstration protesting construction of mobile classroom site. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and later refused to sign bond for his release. Handcuffed to Gregory is James Sanders, man at right is not identified
Comedian Dick Gregory (white suit-center) leaves wagon that brought him from House of Correction for court appearance here. Gregory was arrested August 12 during demonstration protesting construction of mobile classroom site. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and later refused to sign bond for his release. Handcuffed to Gregory is James Sanders, man at right is not identified
Date: August 23, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.284
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.248
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car. At another time, an officer reminisced about wintry midnight tours, about the isolation he felt in the patrol car. Night after night he drove the same streets saw the same drunks, homeless ones, addicts, whom he had to move on, clearing the street. He had his anxieties. What, he wondered, would he do if one night they were gone? Whom would he talk to?, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.35
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.43
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
The “shooting gallery” raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.39
Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
Date: August 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.266
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
Photo by John Bentham.
Proud of His Appendage: He is the Boss Napolean of Spoils
Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Ink on paper with collage elements (recto and verso)
Object number: 1944.1.72a-b
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.21
Herrera is injured but he resumes the fight and will kill his bull, Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Herrera is injured but he resumes the fight and will kill his bull, Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Yvan Dalain
Date: 1962
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.81
There will be no end to commenting on the bullfight. In Cilleros, the matador was Francisco Garrido. His salary was 120 NF. He is twenty-four years of age, and hopes to tore one day in the arenas of Madrid (crowd carrying chairs), Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
There will be no end to commenting on the bullfight. In Cilleros, the matador was Francisco Garrido. His salary was 120 NF. He is twenty-four years of age, and hopes to tore one day in the arenas of Madrid (crowd carrying chairs), Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Yvan Dalain
Date: 1962
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.83