This selection of images, freely available with creative commons licenses, represents a broadly based interpretation of African American culture, presenting diverse histories including the enslavement of the people, protest and civil rights movements, and the lives of celebrated citizens and everyday people. It provides most of the museum’s online offerings including art, artifacts, fashion, musical instruments, letters, portrait photographs and cartes de visite, books, broadsheets, political buttons and all types of ephemera, collectively documenting the lives of African Americans from around 1700 to the 2010s.