A Southern Railway No. 1200 heavyweight passenger coach with segregated compartments. The sides of the car are green with yellow or gold lettering, with [1200] appearing on both ends of both sides of the car, and [SOUTHERN] printed on both sides of the car…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog SC.0031
A pamphlet produced by the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. The soft cover consists of black printed text on a red background. The title [SOUTHERN WOMEN LOOK AT LYNCHING] is printed in large text at the top. There are 29 pages.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.7
A black-and-white photograph of Charles Sherrod (standing) and Randy Battle (sitting) visiting an African American woman who is sitting on her front porch. An African American man and woman stand behind her.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.107.22
A 20-page souvenir program for the 1924 World's Colored Championship baseball series. The front of the program features an illustration of two baseball players being pulled toward a large magnet that reads: [World’s Series] held by a man in a hat smoking a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.1
A multicolored cotton quilt sewn for Stacey Abrams by the Sowing Truth and Justice Collective of Northeast Georgia. Following Abrams’s loss to Brian Kemp in the 2018 Gubernatorial race for Georgia, the six-member Sewing Truth and Justice Collective,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.6.26
This Spanish-language flier announces a march on Washington to overturn the Bakke Decision. The flier is white with black text and features a drawing of a crowd of protesters with a banner reading [LUCHE CONTRA EL RACISMO]. The flier reads [MARCHA PARA…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.27.149
This is a single-sided Spanish-language document printed in black ink. All of the text in the document the same font and the same size. It begins with [Buenos Días/Buenos Noches, esta _______ en casa?]. This document is a script for Obama campaign callers…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.41.3
Typed document with lists of names of various soldiers. Heading of document reads, [HEADQUARTERS/MEDICAL TRAINING CENTER/Brooke Army Medical Center/Fort Sam Houston, Texas]. Document divides lists of names by race. Red handwriting at top of paper reads,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.215.4
Corynne Elliot (born 17 March 1983), better known as Speech Debelle, is a British rapper formerly signed to the Big Dada record label. She was the winner of the 2009 Mercury Prize for her debut album Speech Therapy. Debelle's single from Speech Therapy,…
George Spencer Coggs (born August 6, 1949) is an American public administrator and Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who has served since 2012 as the Milwaukee City Treasurer. Coggs previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Senate and 20…
Spencer A. Overton (born August 11, 1968) is an American lawyer, former president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and law professor at George Washington University Law School. He is an election law scholar, and is a tenured…
A black-and-white photograph of Spike Lee, by Platon. Spike Lee is depicted sitting on a wooden stand. He is facing the viewer with his proper left knee drawn up and with his foot resting on a raised wooden box in front of him. His proper left arm drapes…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.33.38
A black-and-white photograph of Spike Lee, by Platon. The close-up of Lee only shows his face which is heavily shadowed. Lee is looking directly at the viewer and has a serious expression on his face. His eyebrows are slightly raised, and he is wearing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.33.39
Harry "Spike" Moss is a community activist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has organized against police brutality and "Minnesota racism". The Associated Press state that he is a "civil rights leader"; Moss describes himself as a "freedom fighter".
A partially used spool of cream yarn from Rock Rest Tourist Home from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The cotton yarn is loosely wrapped over a wide cardboard spool with the loose end of the yarn wrapped around the center of the spool.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.4.8
A partially used spool of green cotton yarn from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The yarn is loosely wrapped over a wide cardboard spool with the loose end of the yarn wrapped around the center of the spool. At the center of the spool end, on one side, is a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.4.6
A spool of off-white yarn shot with gold, plastic, metallic colored thread from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The yarn is wrapped over a cardboard spool. A metallic gold label with red and gold text, wrapped around the center of the yarn reads [Made in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.4.4
A partially used spool of variegated light pink to light hot pink cotton yarn from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The yarn is loosely wrapped over a wide cardboard spool with the loose end of the yarn wrapped around the center of the spool.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.4.5
A partially used spool of white string from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The string is wrapped around a plain corrugated cardboard spool. The spool caps are plain cardboard. The spool has a wide spool pin hole on one side and small spool pin hole on the other.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.4.3
Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife…
Spottswood William Robinson III (July 26, 1916 – October 11, 1998) was an American civil rights lawyer, jurist, and educator who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1966 to…
This is a small personal spray bottle (a) and its accompanying faux leather carry case (b) owned by Etta Moten Barnett. The spray bottle (a) has a narrow cylindrical body made of silver-colored metal. The top part that contains the spray mechanism is made…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.112ab
This is a spreading metal caliper with curved, rounded ends. There is a crossbar scale that slides as the rounded ends get farther apart. The small circular screw that holds the scale in place has become detached.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.308.1ab
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (January 2, 1911 – June 15, 1990) was an African-American sociologist and anthropologist whose scholarship and activism led him to document much of the social turmoil of the 1960s, establish some of the first Black Studies…
