Elizabeth Meaders collection tracing the African American experience to be auctioned by Guernsey's in...
Elizabeth Meaders, 90, holds a rare portrait of aviator Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license, amid her collection of thousands of historical and cultural artifacts which traces the African American experience from the Revolutionary War and the beginnings of slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement to today's Black Lives Matter movement, being offered in a single lot auction sale by Guernsey's on February 28, 2022, at her home in the Staten Island borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 2, 2022. Picture taken February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar