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Description

1. 9 items (one folder); 21 x 26 cm

Summary

1. Depictions of African Americans and persons of African descent participating in rallies, marches and processions, mainly in New York City during 1998 to 2000, consisting of views of the third Million Youth March, in Harlem (2000); the Wheeler Avenue (Bronx) and Wall Street rallies for police shooting victim Amadou Diallo (1999); Diallo's funeral procession (1999); and children in a memorial march for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on 59th Street (1998). Also included is a group portrait of activists Rev. Herbert Daugherty and Rev. Al Sharpton, and actor Danny Glover, at a rally supporting a national moratorium on the death penalty, in Washington, D.C. (2000). Also depicted are Khalid Abdul Muhammad, leader of the new Black Panther Party and Moses Powell of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement.

Subject

1. Gelatin silver prints > 1990-1999
2. Dye coupler prints > 1990-2009
3. New York (N.Y.) > Race relations
4. Funeral processions > New York (State) > New York > 1990-1999
5. Demonstrations > Washington (D.C.) > 1990-1999
6. Demonstrations > New York (State) > New York > 1990-2000
7. Political activists > New York (State) > New York
8. African American political activists
9. African American civil rights workers

Genre/Form

1. Dye coupler prints – 1990-2009.
2. Gelatin silver prints – 1990-1999.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Thomas, A.N.)

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Most photographs bear handwritten captions, photographer's credit and copyright on verso. One item bears photographer's blind stamp.

Terms of use (note)

1. Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Azim Nadir Thomas is a Harlem, New York-based photographer who, since the late 1990s, has been doucumenting rallies, marches and other activities related to the African American communitiy's struggle for justice.

Author

1. Thomas, Azim Nadir, photographer.

Title

1. [Photographs] / by Azim Nadir.

Production

1. 1998-2000.

Copyright date

1. ©1998-2000

Type of content

1. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Terms of use

1. Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Azim Nadir Thomas is a Harlem, New York-based photographer who, since the late 1990s, has been doucumenting rallies, marches and other activities related to the African American communitiy's struggle for justice.

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Research call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Thomas, A.N.)