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Video and text from interview with Joe Burns, O.G. Clark, Mrs. G.E. Jackson for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the events leading up to and early communication during the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921…

Video and text of Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier.

Seminole artist Pedro Zepeda uses a curved tool called an adze to carve the inside of a canoe.

Cory Osceola and a white woman examine Seminole patchwork at Musa Isle, 1927.

Nancy Billings embroidered the names of each bride and groom married under this chuppah on leaves made from fabric.

This chuppah made by Nancy Billings hangs from the ceiling of HistoryMiami Museum's Folklife Gallery as it would over a bride and groom on their wedding day. The chuppah was displayed as part of a temporary exhibit featuring Nancy's pieces.

Nancy Billings made this chuppah (wedding canopy) for her daughter's wedding as a family heirloom that could be used for many generations. For this chuppah to be special to each couple, she embroidered leaves with each bride and groom’s names. She…

Poster shows the smiling face of a teacher on a laptop computer screen. Behind her is a red globe of the world.

Black and white wood engragving depicting a corn husking party, also referred to as a husking bee, in New England in the mid 19th century. Published in Harper's weekly, 1858 Nov. 13, p. 728. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Image of people and a dog walking beside a horse-drawn sleid transporting a wooden vat of maple sap. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.