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Civil Rights
Olive Morris
1952–1979
Morris organized against racism, police violence, housing injustice and inequality in 1970s Britain.
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Civil Rights
Oliver Brown
1918–1961
Oliver Leon Brown (August 2, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an American welder and Episcopalian pastor. He was known for being the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 United States Supreme Court case Oliver Brown, et al. v.
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Science & Inventions
Oliver Golden
1887–1940
Oliver John Golden (Russian: О́ливер Джон Го́лден; November 18, 1887 – 1940) was an American and Soviet agronomist and politician. Born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, he studied cotton at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. A member of the…
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Oliver Hill
1907–2007
Oliver White Hill Sr. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was an American civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions…
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Politics & Public Life
Oliver J. Coleman
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Oliver J. Coleman (c. 1844 – May 29, 1926) was a state legislator representing Madison County, Florida, during the Reconstruction era. In 1873 he was elected in a special election to represent the 10th Senatorial District. He served in the Florida House of…
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Independence
Oliver Tambo
1917–1993
Tambo directed the African National Congress from exile after it was banned in 1960, building international pressure that helped end apartheid.
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Oliver Thomas
1957–
Oliver Marion Thomas Jr. is an American politician, actor, writer, and poet who served on the New Orleans City Council from 2022 to 2026 and previously from 1994 to 2007, when he resigned his council seat after pleading guilty to bribery charges. On…
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Time-based Media - Moving Images
Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Oral History Interview
August 17, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.102.1a, 2011.174.102.1b, 2011.174.102.1c, 2011.174.102.1d, and 2011.174.102.1e. Oliver W. Hill, Jr., Ph.D. discusses his father, civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill. He explains his father's childhood…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.102.1a-e
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Politics
Olivia P. Stokes
1916–2002
Olivia Pearl Stokes (January 11, 1916 – May 24, 2002) was a religious educator, ordained Baptist minister, author, administrator, and civil rights activist. As the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in religious education, Stokes was a…
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Olívia Santana
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Maria Olivia Santana is a Brazilian politician, activist, and teacher. From 2005 until 2012, she was a city councilor in the city of Salvador, Bahia. From 2015 until 2017, she was the Secretary of Policies for Women in the state of Bahia.
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Olivia Trusty
1983–
Olivia Britt Trusty (born September 20, 1983) is an American telecommunications policy analyst. She is a commissioner of the United States Federal Communications Commission.
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Ollie Harrington
1912–1995
Oliver Wendell Harrington (February 14, 1912 – November 2, 1995) was an American cartoonist of multi-ethnic descent and an outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States. Langston Hughes called him "America's greatest…
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Education & Scholarship
Ollye Shirley
1934–2016
Ollye Brown Shirley (January 10, 1934 – September 10, 2016) was an American educator and civil rights activist. During the 1960s, she served as an editor for the Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal, an African American newspaper that covered the civil rights…
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Olufela Olomola
1997–
Olufela Oladele Ayodeji Olomola (born 5 September 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or as a forward for National League club Wealdstone. Known to teammates as "Fela", Olomola holds both British and Nigerian citizenship.
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Politics
Omar Bradley
1958–
Omar Bradley (born May 9, 1958) is an American politician who served as mayor of Compton, California from 1993 until 2001.
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Omar Fateh
1990–
Omar Mahmood Fateh (born April 19, 1990) is an American politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 62, which includes parts of south Minneapolis in Hennepin County.…
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Omar Tyree
1969–
Omar Rashad Tyree (born April 15, 1969) is an African-American novelist. He is known for his best-selling book For the Love of Money and Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr., which he co-authored with Marion Barry.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman
1974–
Omarosa Onee Newman (; née Manigault; born February 5, 1974), known as Omarosa, is an American reality television star, author, former political consultant and White House aide. She held White House staff roles during the presidential terms of Bill Clinton…
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Medicine & Health
Omega Silva
1936–2020
Omega C. Logan Silva (December 4, 1936 — April 2, 2020) was an American physician known for her discovery that small cell lung cancer can produce calcitonin and for her activism.
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Politics & Public Life
Omeria Scott
1956–
Omeria McDonald Scott (born November 21, 1956) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 80th District and was first elected in 1992. In January 2026 she proposed a…
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Books and Published Materials
On China
2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed, hardcover first edition of On China written by Henry Kissinger with a personal inscription to General Colin L. Powell. The hardcover book features a glossy white paper jacket over its grey hardcover. The grey spine displays the book title,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.101.1.48
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Photographs and Still Images
On January 12, 1964, the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee Organized a 13-mile March from Durham to Chapel Hill
January 12, 1964; scanned 2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital image of the cover photograph for John Ehle's book, "The Free Men." On Jan 12, 1964, the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee organized a 13-mile Freedom March from Durham to Chapel Hill. In the image, four men lead a procession of marchers holding a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.11.23
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On the Pulse of Morning
October 16, 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black-and-white photograph depicts the Million Man March crowd in front of the United States Capitol building. The crowd is densely packed and figures gaze in multiple directions. There is a raised platform in the foreground with a group of men…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.1
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Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama
1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color pigment print titled “Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama” by Gordon Parks. The photograph was taken from behind a display case full of white mannequin children. Looking into the display case is a child, Ondria…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.39.39
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