Black and white gelatin silver developed-out photographic print of Rosa Parks at the March on Washington. She is pictured from the waist up, standing within a crowd. She wears dark gloves, pearl necklace and a light-colored jacket with a round pin-back…
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Dr. Rosa Slade Gragg (30 April 1904 – 19 February 1989) was an American activist and politician. She founded the first black vocational school in Detroit, Michigan; and was the advisor to three United States presidents.
Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, , COG (née George; 10 January 1931 – 14 October 2025) was a British Labour politician, who served as member of the House of Lords from 1999 to 2019. Having been appointed an Officer of the…
Rosalind Osgood (born 1965/1966) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Florida Senate. She is president and CEO of non-profit Mount Olive Development Corp and served on the Broward County School Board for more than a decade.
Rosalyn Randolph Dance (born February 10, 1948) is an American politician and retired nurse who is currently serving as Vice-Chairman of the Virginia Department of Elections. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Senate of Virginia from 2014…
Rosalyn D. Henderson-Myers is an attorney and an American politician. She is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 31st District, serving since 2017. She is a member of the Democratic party.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is a British grassroots campaigner who raises awareness of asthma and the health problems that can be caused by air pollution. Her work followed the death of her nine-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, which was…
Rosângela de Souza Gomes (born 27 December 1966) is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as state representative since 2015.
Rosanne Katon (born February 5, 1954) is an American model, actress, comedian and activist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and activist. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), 25th Hour (2002), Men in…
Roscoe Dunjee (June 21, 1883 – March 1, 1965) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and editor in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He founded The Black Dispatch in 1915, the first black newspaper in Oklahoma City, and used it as a platform to support…
Roscoe Conkling Simmons (June 20, 1881 – April 27, 1951) was an American orator, journalist, and political activist. The nephew of Booker T. Washington, he wrote a column from Washington, D.C. about African-American issues for the Chicago Tribune and was…
Rose Hulse (née Adkins) is a Californian born British entrepreneur who was voted as one of the fifty most influential people working in the UK's OTT industry as the founder and CEO of TV streaming company, ScreenHits TV.
Rose McClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People's Theatre, she guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project's African American theatre units nationwide and…
Rosemary Brown (née Wedderburn; June 17, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was a Canadian politician, social worker, and human rights advocate. As a member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly from 1972 to 1986, she was the first black woman elected to a…
Rosemary Elaine Phelps (born 1955) is an American counseling psychologist whose work has focused on racial identity and the race-related stress experienced by racially diverse students and faculty in higher education. She is known for her advocacy and…
Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (June 24, 1839 – November 25, 1906) was an American teacher and activist. She was a founding member of the National Association for Colored Women. Her parents were Anna Murray Douglass and Frederick Douglass.
Rosetta Evelyn Lawson (née Coakley, born c. 1857, died April 19, 1936) was an American temperance activist, educator, and suffragette. She was, with her husband, educator and activist Jesse Lawson, a co-founder of Frelinghuysen University, where she taught…
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932) is an American former football player, bodyguard, actor, singer, Protestant minister, fiber artist, and motivational speaker. He played professionally as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL)…
The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.74.1a, 2011.174.74.1b, 2011.174.74.1c, 2011.174.74.1d, 2011.174.74.1e, 2011.174.74.1f, and 2011.174.74.1g. Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.74.1a-g
Roslyn Pope (October 29, 1938 – January 18, 2023) was an American civil rights activist and academic. Pope is best remembered as an author of An Appeal for Human Rights while the president of the student government at Spelman College during the 1960…
Roslyn C. "Roz" Tyler (née Cain; born July 18, 1961, in Greensville County, Virginia) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since 2006 she has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. From 2006 to 2022, she represented the 75th…
Ross Hamilton (c. 1843 – 1901) was an American carpenter, storekeeper, federal employee and Republican Party politician who represented Mecklenburg County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1870 to 1883, and 1889–1890. Hamilton had the longest…
