Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow.
Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.
Series Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture Search this
Container:
Box 25, Folder 17
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
2000 January 15
Scope and Contents:
As part of the commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Program of African American Culture presents "Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle". This annual public program series is dedicated to the presentation of Civil Rights Movement history and culture. Each year the program calls on activists of the Movement who engaged in civil disobedience and nonviolent confrontation to share their experiences with an audience, answer questions and promote discussion. The series also includes musical performances and exhibition tours. This year's program "Fighting for My Rights" focused on the theme of student activism and the role of youth in the Civil Rights Movement. The young students shared their experiences regarding the distance between themselves and their families, who were reluctant to allow them to face such dangers and risks.
Participants included:
June Johnson, former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer in the Mississippi Delta
Martha Prescod Norman, activist, former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, university instructor
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions exist. Collection items available for reproduction Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture Search this
Container:
Box 25, Folder 21
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
2001 January 13
Scope and Contents:
As part of the commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Program of African American Culture presented "Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle". This annual public program series was dedicated to the presentation of Civil Rights Movement history and culture. Each year the program calls on activists of the Movement who engaged in civil disobedience and nonviolent confrontation to share their experiences with an audience, answer questions and promote discussion. The series also included musical performances and exhibition tours. This year's program "Another Day's Journey featured reflections with the Reverend Dr. James Edward Orange, the Civil Rights Movement activist, community, political, and labor organizer, and coalition builder. His reflections were followed by Audience comments, questions, and discussion, and then songs of struggle and freedom were led by James Orange with the Program in African American Culture Community Ensemble. The program concluded with a docent-led tour of the exhibition Field to Factory and other objects related to social change in America. The program took place in the Carmichael Auditorium at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution. It was sponsored by the Program in African American Culture.
Participants included:
The Reverend Dr. James Edward Orange, Civil Rights Movement activist; community, political, and labor organizer, and coalition builder
Program in African American Culture Community Ensemble - Tammy Adair, Michelle Lanchester, Steve Langley, Ronald Bruce O'Neal, Pam Rogers, Yasmeen Williams
Program number AC408.113.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions exist. Collection items available for reproduction Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture Search this
Container:
Box 26, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
2002 January 19
Scope and Contents:
As part of the commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Program of African American Culture presents "Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle". This annual public program series is dedicated to the presentation of Civil Rights Movement history and culture. Each year the program calls on activists of the Movement who engaged in civil disobedience and nonviolent confrontation to share their experiences with an audience, answer questions and promote discussion. The series also includes musical performances and exhibition tours. This year's program "Stayed on Freedom" featured an interview with James Forman, the Civil Rights Movement activist, political organizer, author, and educator, by Clayborne Carson, the scholar, author, and educator. The interview was followed by audience comments, questions, and discussion, and then songs of struggle and freedom were sung by the Program in African American Culture Community Ensemble. The program concluded with a docent-led tour of the exhibition Field to Factory and other objects related to social change in America.
The program took place in the Carmichael Auditorium at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution. It was sponsored by the Program in African American Culture.
Participants included:
James Forman, Ph.D., Civil Rights Movement activist, political organizer, author, and educator
Clayborne Carson, Ph.D., scholar, author, and educator
Performers included:
Program in African American Culture Community Ensemble
Program in African American Culture Youth Choir
Program number AC408.116.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions exist. Collection items available for reproduction Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture Search this
Container:
Box 36, Folder 6
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1987 January 1
Scope and Contents:
As part of the commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Program in African American Culture presents "Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle". This annual public program series is dedicated to the presentation of Civil Rights Movement history and culture. Each year the program calls on activists of the Movement who engaged in civil disobedience and nonviolent confrontation to share their experiences with an audience, answer questions and promote discussion. The series also includes musical performances and exhibition tours.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions exist. Collection items available for reproduction Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Mel Casas papers, 1963-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing and digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Additional funding for the digitization of the papers was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
The personal and business papers of longtime, gay civil rights activist, editor, and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN), Mark Segal.
Scope and Contents:
The papers document the life, activism, and publishing activities of LGBT activist Mark Segal. The collection includes correspondence between Segal and elected officials, members of the news media, entertainers and others, newsletters, news articles, writings both original and collected, clippings, photographs both official and personal. This collection also includes papers and photographs documenting the first Gay Pride event in New York City in 1970, various Democratic National Conventions, other Pride celebrations and events, and an Elton John benefit concert Segal produced. The collection includes papers documenting the William Way senior housing center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for elder gay people. There are early papers, newsletters, and ephemera relating to the Gay Liberation Front organization, the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Raiders, and many more organizations that sprang up in the post-Stonewall era; programs from events; invitations; posters, and bumper stickers.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into six series.
Series 1: Segal, Mark, Personal, Subject, Photographs, and Audio-Visual Files, 1951-2018, undated
Subseries 1.1: Personal Files, 1961-2017, undated
Subseries 1.2: Subject Files, 1951-2017, undated
Subseries 1.3: Photographs, 1960-2018, undated
Subseries 1.4: Audio-Visual, 2005-2014, undated
Series 2: Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) and MASCO Communications Company and Lambda Award Files, 1972-2016, undated
Subseries 2.1: Company Files, 1972-2016, undated
Subseries 2.2: Lambda Awards, 1978-2000
Series 3: Organizations and Associations, 1962-2017, undated
Series 4: Newspapers and Periodicals, 1962-2016, undated
Series 5: Publications and Writings, 1970-2013, undated
Series 6: Pride and Events, 1970-2011, undated
Biographical / Historical:
Mark Segal was born January 12, 1951 to Martin and Shirley Weinstein Segal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended public school in Philadelphia and upon graduating from high school made his way to New York, New York, at a time when the gay rights movement was poised to experience a watershed moment, the Stonewall Riots in June 1969.
As an activist, journalist, and publisher, Segal participated in and often organized a range of civil rights and social groups, protests, legal actions, and other activities in support of gay rights. He became well known for his very public acts of civil disobedience as a member of the Gay Raiders, termed "zaps," on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and the Mike Douglas Show in the early 1970s. Those appearances coupled with scheduled appearances on various national and local television and radio talk shows fulfilled one of the goals for Segal's activism, "to show the nation who gay people are: our sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers."
In 1976, Segal founded and currently publishes the influential newspaper, Philadelphia Gay News. With an increasing political profile, Segal used the influence and power of the gay press and his standing within political circles to further promote LGBTQ civil rights legislation. During the late 1970s and into the present day, these efforts met with criticism and sometimes outright acts of hate (newspapers boxes of the Philadelphia Gay News were often targets of anti-gay placards and vandalism). Segal and the many others working toward the goal of equal rights for LGBTQ persons were not deterred. Working within political circles and sometimes outside them, many landmark laws and court decisions were achieved in national, state, and local governments.
Separated Materials:
Related artifacts are in the Division of Medical Sciences (now Division of Medicine and Science).
Provenance:
This collection was donated to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian by Mark Segal, 2017.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Reproduction of some materials is restricted due to copyright or trademark.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Bil Browning and Jerame Davis Papers, 1972-2015, undated, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Collection, Acc. 1992.0023, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Folder (1 sheet: photographic negatives, black and white, 35 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Contact sheets
Date:
undated
Collection Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Diana J. Davies photographs, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
or
Photo by Diana J. Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and COllections, Smithsonian Institution.
