"It’s not the orator photo," Linda Johnson Rice says of Moneta Sleet Jr.'s portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. "It’s more of the concentrative listening photo. That shows another side of him." Courtesy of Johnson Publishing.

The Acapulco honeymoon of Nat King Cole and new bride Marie Ellington was chronicled in a 1948 Ebony cover story. Griffith Davis photo courtesy of Johnson Publishing.

At the 1968 funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King holds their daughter, Bernice. An Ebony cover bearing this image, a Pulitzer winner for photographer Moneta J. Sleet Jr., is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale a

Josephine Baker performs at Chicago's Regal Theater in 1960. The photo by Isaac Sutton is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing

Cubs great Ernie Banks signs a photo in the hallway of Johnson Publishing in 1977. “Ebony was so important to me,” he says. | Norman L. Hunter~Johnson Publishing

Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing, wears white gloves to handle the photographs in the archives of more than 2,000 images from Ebony magazine. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Media

Billie Holiday poses in 1958. The photo by Isaac Sutton is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson share a laugh. "They’re enjoying themselves,” says Linda Johnson Rice. Isaac Sutton photo courtesy of Johnson Publishing.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appears on a 1970 Ebony cover. “It’s a powerful picture," says Johnson Publishing chairman Linda Johnson Rice. "Just beautiful.” Howard Simmons photo courtesy of Johnson Publishing.

Lena Horne is pictured on the cover of Ebony in July 1968. The photo by Moneta Sleet Jr. is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing

Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, Rep. John Lewis and others prepare for the March on Washington in 1963. "All these civil rights icons together in front of Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator," says Linda Johnson Rice. William Lanier photo courtesy of

James Brown, backstage at a concert in Memphis, Tenn. The photo by Ted Williams is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing

Sammy Davis Jr. smiles with Dave Halper and Nat King Cole in a 1955 photo by William Lanier. Davis "set the stage, and I use that literally," Linda Johnson Rice says, " for most of the black entertainers you see now." Courtesy of Johnson Publishing.

Muhammad Ali throws a blow at Joe Frazier in 1971. The photo by Isaac Sutton is among the Ebony Collection archive prints on sale at www.ebony.com/store. Courtesy of Johnson Publishing