Documents Tagged ‘Rainbow Sign’
Invitation to Artists Reception for Africobra
Archive Entry Date: 6/4/1972
The first exhibition on the West Coast for the "African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists"
Rainbow Sign Presents the John Handy Sextet
Archive Entry Date: 6/4/72
Handy and friends jazz up the place
See Maya Angelou at Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 4/20/72
The singer-dancer-poet-memoirist, promoting her new book "Just Give Me a Cool Glass of Water 'Fore I Die"
Invitation to Artist’s Reception for Dr. Samella Sanders Lewis
Archive Entry Date: 4/2/72
Prints, films and lectures from a Black arts icon
Nina Simone Contact Sheet
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
Thirty rare images of the incomparable Ms. Simone
Rainbow Sign Presents Nina Simone
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
"The high priestess of soul" visits the Rainbow Sign
Mayor’s Proclamation of Nina Simone Day
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
On the occasion of Nina Simone's concert at Rainbow Sign, Mayor Widener honored both the singer and the club
Nina Simone Photographs
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
Two entrancing photos used to publicize her Rainbow Sign appearance
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Archive Entry Date: 1972
The assemblage that, according to Angela Davis, marked the start of the black women's movement
Bowker Bumsout Blacks
Archive Entry Date: 1/29/1972
When the Cal administration installed its own chair of Afro-American Studies, dissenters went to the Rainbow Sign to strategize
Invitation to Artists Reception for “Black Contributors”
Archive Entry Date: 1/29/72
Calling black artists near and far
Invitation to Artist Reception for Herman Kofi Bailey
Archive Entry Date: 12/5/71
"The essence of Black folk the world over"
Bill Smallwood on Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: 11/4/1971
Mary Ann Pollar made an Oakland Post columnist want to "run up a flag signifying, Right On!"
Contact Sheet: Shirley Chisholm on the Campaign Trail
Archive Entry Date: 10/30/1971
The Rainbow Sign was a magnet for powerful black women with integrity such as Chisholm
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Covers Weighty Subjects
Archive Entry Date: 10/30/1971
Chisholm and Mary Ann Pollar: women unbought and unbossed
Invitation to Artist Reception for Rosalind Jeffries
Archive Entry Date: 10/25/71
From West Africa to the West Coast
Mary Widener in Rainbow Sign Conference Room
Archive Entry Date: 9/9/1971
Like many local black leaders, Warren Widener and his took advantage of Rainbow Sign's rentable community space
Temporary Membership Card
Archive Entry Date: September 1971
Just after Rainbow Sign opened, it used a promotion to get people in the door
Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar, Henry Pollar and Mary Jane Johnson
Archive Entry Date: August 1971
Kinship and camaraderie
Invitation to the Opening of the Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 8/21/71
An invitation that connected the era of Soul back to the turn-of-the-century
First Anniversary Brochure
Archive Entry Date: 8/9/72
Rainbow Sign's greatest hits (Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln) from its first year
Charles Brown
Archive Entry Date: 1971
Brown brought his activist orientation and love of the arts to Rainbow Sign
