John W. MosleyNationalityAmericanLife Dates1907-1969Stories TriggerBlank field used to trigger form on artwork and artist pages. DO NOT EDITShare:Stories We invite you to share your ideas, knowledge, and stories as they relate to the art in our collection. Read what people had to say about this art or use the form below and write to us yourself. Name: Invalid Input Email: Invalid Input on Email Phone: Invalid Input on Phone Message: Invalid Input Invalid Input Related Art in Collection “Big Mom” Ella Taggert Jones (at left in white hat) leads demonstrators protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia A race to the finish line A soldier of the Fifth United States Army and an unidentified sailor at the South Broad Street USO Club, Philadelphia A.V. Barkley Funeral Home, 634–40 North 38th Street, Philadelphia Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., at a NAACP rally, Atlantic City, NJ Albert Einstein and students at Lincoln University An unidentified woman photographed for a calendar produced by Dox Thrash An unidentified woman photographed for a calendar produced by Dox Thrash An unidentified woman photographed for a calendar produced by Dox Thrash Annual baptism of the United House of Prayer for All People Church, Philadelphia Annual baptism of the United House of Prayer for All People Church, Philadelphia Annual baptism of the United House of Prayer for All People Church, Philadelphia Audience members leaving the Academy of Music after seeing the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company perform Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, Philadelphia Baptism performed by Reverend Marshall L. Shepard, Sr., pastor of Mount Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church, 647 North 42nd Street, Philadelphia Billie Holiday and Spizzy Canfield of the Canfield and Lewis comedy team Bishop Charles M. “Sweet Daddy” Grace, founder of the United House of Prayer for All People Church, Philadelphia Block party Butch Williams holding Gloria Phillis and Cheryl Steele on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Carolyn Davenport Moore Cecil B. Moore at State Office Building Charles L. Blockson representing the Pennsylvania State University track and field team in the shot put at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Cooking Demonstration at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Coretta Scott at the Progressive Party Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia Dance Daniel Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Democratic National Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia Demonstrator protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Demonstrators protesting Girard College‘s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Demonstrators protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Demonstrators protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Dog Donald Marshall, G. Bruce Ward, Byron Marshall, and John Butler on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Doris Thomas on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Dox Thrash at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Dr. Frank (Tick) Coleman (standing, far left) with ping pong teams at the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Dr. Frank (Tick) Coleman (standing, second from left) and others outside the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an unidentified man and woman on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cecil B. Moore shaking hands as Georgie Woods watches on at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel during a press conference to discuss plans for a rally at Girard College, Philadelphia Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Jackie Robinson, Daytona Beach, FL Duke Ellington and Cootie Williams at Nixon’s Grand Theater, Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia Earl Hines has been called the first modern jazz pianist Eartha Kitt Easter Sunday Easter Sunday Easter Sunday in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Erskine Hawkins (right) at Paramount Record Shop and Recording Studio, Philadelphia Five women on the boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ Food preparation Girls in front of St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia Gladys Potter on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Helen “Curl” Harris (left) and Ella Fitzgerald High jump at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Jack & Jill of America Halloween Party, Philadelphia Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers James Stewart, one of the first eight African Americans hired as Philadelphia Transit Company trolley operators, receiving instruction from William Poisel, Philadelphia Jesse Owens of Ohio State and Eulace Peacock of Temple University at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Jo Poindexter on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Joe Louis (left) and Bob Montgomery (right) with children at the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Joe Louis with friends on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie John W. Mosley John W. Mosley self-portrait Josephine Baker Josephine Baker at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Kenilworth Street, Philadelphia Left to right: Judge Raymond Pace Alexander, Joan Crawford, Wilma Rudolph, and Arthur Spingarn at the 12th Annual Philadelphia Cotillion Society Affair Left to right: Two unidentified women, Thelma “Angel” Loving, and Nevada Ward at a Jack & Jill of America event, Philadelphia Left to right: Unidentified woman, Dr. Helen O. Dickens, unidentified child, Sadie T. M. Alexander, Mary Elizabeth Alexander, and Rae Pace Alexander Lena Horne Linda Perkins on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Long jump at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Majorette from the Daughters of Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World Marian Anderson (left) speaks with Grace Kelly at the Crystal Ball at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Kelly’s husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, looks on Marian Anderson and Clarence Monroe at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Mary Johnson and Joan Myers Brown (right) at a recital at the Sydney School of Dance, Philadelphia Mary Lou Sullivan on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Members of the Florida A&M University track and field team at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Members of the Pyramid Club at its Crystal Bar, Philadelphia Members of Zion Baptist Church at the groundbreaking for Zion Gardens Apartments in the Yorktown neighborhood, 1101 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia Miss Sepia Miss Tyson (far right) and two unidentified women on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Mrs. Amelia Morris celebrating her 110th birthday with daughters Mrs. Alzenia Walker and Mrs. Luricker Odom, and an unidentified man Mrs. Rachel Stevenson and John G. Pew christening the Marine Eagle, Philadelphia Muhammad Ali Nat King Cole North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, Philadelphia Nurses in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, 1530–34 Lombard Street, Philadelphia Parade Paramount Shoes, 21st Street and Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia Parkside Athletic Field, Philadelphia Paul Robeson with Julian Bond at the home of Dr. Horace Mann Bond and Mrs. Julia Bond Pearl Bailey Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Philadelphia Cotillion Society Christmas Cotillion Philadelphia Cotillion Society presentation Philadelphia NAACP President Cecil B. Moore speaking at a rally protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Philadelphia Transportation Company protest Philadelphia Transportation Company protest Philadelphia Tribune Building, 520 South 16th Street, Philadelphia Philadelphia Tribune Building, 520 South 16th Street, Philadelphia Piano tuner Picnic Police officers with demonstrators protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia President Richard Nixon and Reverend Leon H. Sullivan Printer Progressive Party Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia Pullman porters at Pennsylvania Station (now 30th Street Station), Philadelphia Pyramid Club luncheon, Philadelphia Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Pyramid Club, Philadelphia Republican National Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia Rev Shelton Hale Waters, pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia Rev. Shelton Hale Waters (fifth from right), Philadelphia NAACP President Cecil B. Moore (far right), and other members of the Church Council protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (on stage, at center) at a rally protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a rally protesting Girard College’s segregationist admissions policy, Philadelphia Reverend Shelton Hale Waters, pastor of First African Presbyterian Church, praying at a demonstration at Girard College, Philadelphia Richard Robert Wright, Sr. and others at a war bond booth Ruby Dee (fourth from left) and her husband, Ossie Davis (third from left), with unidentified people at the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Sam Brown at printing press, 5914 Thompson Street, Philadelphia Sammy Davis, Jr. and an unidentified woman on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ Samuel L. Evans (laying down) and Rotan Lee (seated, second from right) Seated crowd of people Selma Burke Selma Burke’s sculpture Island Dancers at a Pyramid Club exhibition curated by Dox Thrash, Philadelphia Soldiers Spectators at the Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Tennessee State University Tigerbelles Wilma Rudolph (first place) and Martha Hudson (second place) in the 75-yard dash, Penn Relays, Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia The Afro Market, Philadelphia The Annual Philadelphia Cotillion Society Ball The Philadelphia Stars of the National Negro Baseball League with manager and co-owner Ed Bolden (center). Trudy Pitts Unidentified children at an event organized by the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia Unidentified man Unidentified people Unidentified woman on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ US Representative William J. Green, Jr., Philadelphia Mayor James H.J. Tate, US President John F. Kennedy, and US Senator Joseph S. Clark from Pennsylvania at an Independence Hall Fourth of July celebration View of the crowd as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses civil rights demonstrators at 40th Street and Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia Virginia Booker and Helen Taylor on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ W.E.B Du Bois at McDowell Memorial Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia Wedding William Cosby of the Temple University men’s track and field team holding a javelin Willie Mays Wilt Chamberlain Woman and child Woman in water on Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ
