Selected Works
Interviews, features, and conversations with Princetta Rudd Newman — the same firsthand knowledge and story guidance she brings to every research and story production project.
Start a Story Production InquiryThe Smithsonian Collection
Photographs and other materials from Princetta's family collection form the Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs — a named donor collection held by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Images of families, business owners, churches, schools, and everyday life that may never have made it into a history book.
Photographs from the collection also appear in The Kinsey Collection, the celebrated survey of African American art and history.
View the collection at nmaahc.si.edu
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Start a story production inquiryInterviews & Features
Princetta talks about her Smithsonian collection, her work with the Kinsey Collection, and what it takes to keep Greenwood's history alive — the same depth of knowledge she brings to every story production project.
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Princetta's photographs and firsthand knowledge have been cited and credited in the following published work.
A profile of Princetta and her upcoming book, If These Bricks Could Talk.
Read the sourceTulsa World· 2020Features Princetta and the letter Dr. King wrote to her father, John Cloman.
Read the sourceHISTORY· 2021By Alexis Clark
Photograph credit: Collection of the Smithsonian NMAAHC, Gift of Princetta R. Newman.
Read the sourceThe Ringer· 2018By Victor Luckerson
Photograph credits: Collection of the Smithsonian NMAAHC, Gift of Princetta R. Newman.
Read the sourceThe Victory of Greenwood· 2021By Carlos Moreno
Photograph courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian NMAAHC, Gift of Princetta R. Newman.
Read the sourceCenter for Public Secrets· 2023By Randy Hopkins
Draws extensively on the Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, held at the Smithsonian NMAAHC.
Read the sourceWomen of Black Wall Street· 2025Multiple photographs credited to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman.
Read the sourceSmithsonian American Women’s History Museum· 2023By Diana Turnbow
Features a 1920 photograph of Eunice Jackson from the Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Read the sourceHouston Chronicle· 2023By Joy Sewing
Features a circa-1950 photograph of a traveling family, donated by Princetta R. Newman to the Smithsonian NMAAHC, on view in the traveling Green Book exhibition.
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