A first edition, first printing hardcopy of the Negro Boys and Girls (Negro American Series) by Emma E. Akin. This primary reader presents lessons and stories based on the students in the first grade class at Dunbar School (Oklahoma). The front cover is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.214.1
Publication of "Negro Digest" featuring an orange cover with a circle in the middle consisting of four (4) black and white images, one in each quadrant, of people in various different interior settings. One image, the lower left quadrant, is of a building…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.154.10
A paper pamphlet written by Dr. Carter G. Woodson and distributed by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announcing the national annual celebration of Negro History Week, beginning on 7 February 1932. This 16-page pamphlet is printed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.15
This hardback history book by Carter G. Woodson, totals 362 pages and contains the following inscription on the interior: [To Samuel C. Jackson with the best wishes of C.G. Woodson, Dec. 25, 1928]. According to the Preface this book was intended to be an…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.54.1
This hardback, first edition history book by Carter G. Woodson totals 362 pages with 39 chapters. The cover of the book has an iteration of the death of Crispus Attucks at the 1770 Boston Massacre at the top center. Below the image is black text [NEGRO…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.55
A black-and-white digital image of a young girl holding flowers up to Richard Adams. The girl is seated at a wooden desk, wearing a jumper. Adams has his head on the flowers leaning on the girl's desk looking at her. A young boy can be seen behind at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.94
Darly Silva, better known as Neguitão is a Brazilian sambist, who presided over samba school GRES Vai-Vai from 2010 to 2019. Neguitão gained relevance during the 2010s, mainly due to his performance on the day of evaluation of samba schools grades, when…
Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: də-GRASS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a…
Neil Denis is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Rya'c, Teal'c's son, in Stargate SG-1. His first appearance was in University Hospital in 1995 at age ten. He is also known for his roles as Robby Drake in 2030 CE, Spyke in X-Men: Evolution, and…
Neil Smith (born April 10, 1966) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1988 to 1996, the Denver Broncos from 1997 to 1999, and the San…
Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong (née Levy-Pounds, born June 27, 1976) is an American lawyer and social justice activist. She was president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP from 2015 to 2016. She has led a variety of organizations that focus on issues…
Nelarine Estella Cornelius is professor of organisation studies at Queen Mary University of London, England. She was previously professor of organisation studies at the University of Bradford. Cornelius's research relates to the role of business in…
Nell Irvin Painter (born Nell Elizabeth Irvin; August 2, 1942) is an American historian notable for her works on United States Southern history of the nineteenth century. She is retired from Princeton University as the Edwards Professor of American History…
Nellie Arnold Plummer (September 7, 1860 to 1933) was a former slave who became the first female student to attend the Normal Department of Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. She subsequently worked as a teacher for over forty-five years and published…
Nellie Blythe Nicholson Taylor (July 22, 1888 – December 20, 1965) was an African-American suffragist and educator. Nicholson was a clubwoman, co-founding a local Delaware affiliate, the Women's College Club of Delaware, with Sadie L. Jones. She was a…
Nellie Craig Walker (1881–1969) was a school teacher and business owner, and was the first African-American student to graduate from Miami University. Walker was born Nellie Craig in Oxford, Ohio in 1881, the daughter of Jessie Craig and Susan Ross Craig,…
Nellie Mae Abrams (1946–2005) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. Her art has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, and is included in the collection of the…
Nellie Pratt Russell (May 4, 1890 - December 13, 1979) was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first sorority founded by African-American college women. Earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at Howard University and Columbia University,…
Nellie May Quander (February 11, 1880 - September 24, 1961) was an incorporator and the first international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. As president for several years, she helped expand the sorority and further its support of African-American…
Nellie A. Ramsey Leslie (better known as N.A.R. Leslie; née Coles; c. 1840s-c. 1920s) was notable as a teacher, musician and composer, working in Louisiana and Mississippi, and then in Indian Territory and Corpus Christi, Texas, where she founded a musical…
Nellie Rathbone Bright (March 28, 1898 – February 7, 1977) was an American educator, poet, and author. She taught in Philadelphia public schools, becoming a principal in 1935 and serving until her retirement in 1952. She inspired generations of African…
Nellie Yvonne McKay (May 12, 1930 – January 22, 2006) was an American academic and author who was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also taught in English and women's…
Nellie Constance Yarborough (June 18, 1925 – December 8, 2012) was an African American Pentecostal bishop, pastor, and community activist based in Boston, Massachusetts. As the first female bishop of the Mt. Calvary Holy Church, she became a figure in both…
Nelson B. Bartram (January 7, 1832 - December 25, 1886) was a teacher, official, and colonel in the U.S. Army who commanded United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The Library of Congress has a glass negative photograph of him.
