Dolores Hobley Collection

Three unidentified African American men stand on a sidewalk at the bottom of a couple steps up to a black door with a six-pane window. A sign next to the door is mostly illegible but begins with St. Marks M.E. Church.

Three unidentified African American men talking together in a living room. Two men sit on a couch looking up at a third man who is standing facing them but turning his head over his right shoulder to smile at the photographer. He holds a pack of cigarettes in his left hand.

Three unidentified African American men in school letter sweaters stand on a lawn probably at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri with one man in a suit kneeling in front of them. The one on the left smiles and points at the man kneeling. The one in the center is using crutches and grimaces as the one on the right pokes his finger into the center man's left palm. A printed border has ELKO in each corner.

Three unidentified African American men in school letter sweaters stand with their hands behind their backs in front of an evergreen tree probably at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The one on the left smiles. The one in the center grins. The one on the right does not smile. A printed border has ELKO in each corner.

Three men, one white and two African American, sit at a desk with microphones looking over documents and working on a broadcast or recording.

An unidentified African American man sitting in the front driver's seat of a car and looking out the window to smile at the photographer, and two unidentified African American women standing nearby by the hood on the passengers side of the car look at the photographer. The woman on the left has her arm around the shoulders of the woman on the right. There is the side of a house on the left side of the photograph. Behind the car are trees and another house.

An unidentified white man stands on the left, a white woman stands in the center holding a piece of paper, likely a certificate, and an African American man stands on the right holding a piece of paper, likely a certificate as they smile for a photographer.

An unidentified African American man and two unidentified African American women stand next to the driver's side of a car with a fountain behind them. A man walks by on the other side of the fountain.

Two unidentified well-dressed African American women, flank an unidentified African American man as they stand outdoors among trees. The woman farthest to the left is possibly the mother of Dowdal Davis.

Two unidentified African American men in fraternal order fezzes flanking an unidentified African American woman in the women's auxiliary envelope cap stand outside a building.