Vinyl records of recorded sermons and poems used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley. The top half of the label on each record has blue printed text on a white ground and reads "THE VOICE OF/ [blank line]/ YOUR MAN IN SERVICE." The names of each of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.205.2.1-.4
Viola Osborne Baskerville (born October 29, 1951) is a Virginia lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2005 and as Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine from 2006 to 2010.
Viola Davis Brown (April 8, 1936 – December 22, 2017) born in Lexington, Kentucky, was a participant in the civil rights movement with contributions to public health and medical education in Kentucky.
In 1946, businesswoman Viola Desmond refused to leave a whites-only section of a New Glasgow cinema. Her arrest and conviction helped energize Canada’s civil-rights movement.
Viola Fletcher (née Ford; May 10, 1914 – November 24, 2025), also known as Mother Fletcher, was an American woman who, at the time of her death, was the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre and a supercentenarian. One hundred years after…
Viola Hill (1892 – 1954) was an African-American suffragist, activist, and musician. She was a founding member of the Alpha Suffrage Club and a community leader within the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Viola Mary Johnson Coleman (September 25, 1919 - October 12, 2005) was the first African-American female physician to practice medicine in Midland, Texas. She was active in advocating for the desegregation of schools and for the integration of hospitals in…
Viola Plummer (16 February 1937 – 15 January 2024) was an American civil rights activist. She was a founding member of the December 12th Movement, a Black human rights organization, United States-based political lobby organization with United Nations…
Viola White (1911–1954) was an African-American woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama and is best known for her resistance to segregated bus laws. At 35 years old, in 1944, White was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. White's arrest occurred a…
One (1) cotton quilt tapestry, Violencia y Esperanza en Colombia (Violence and Hope in Colombia), crafted by Mujeres Tejedoras de Mampuján (The Weavers of Mampuján), circa 2006 to 2008. The tapestry is vertically oriented and has a lavender cotton border…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.2.2
Violet Hill Gordon (née Askins October 7, 1916 – July 18, 2018) was an American military officer and government official. She served as a Women's Army Corps officer during World War II and was among the first African-American women to be commissioned in…
Violet Hill Whyte (November 18, 1897 – 1980) was a teacher, the first African-American to be appointed an officer of the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland, and a community activist. She was appointed in December 1937 by Commissioner William P.…
Violet Pauline King Henry (October 18, 1929 – March 30, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and activist. King was the first Black woman lawyer in Canada, the first Black person to graduate law in Alberta, and the first Black person to be admitted to the Alberta Bar.
Virgil Clark Smith (July 4, 1947 – June 23, 2025) was an American politician and judge. He served as judge of the 3rd Circuit Court in Wayne County, Michigan from 2004 to 2018, having been appointed to fill a vacancy in the court by Michigan Governor…
Virgil Alexander Wood (April 6, 1931 – December 28, 2024) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. Ordained as a minister in his late teens, Wood served various churches in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Virginia for over 50 years. He…
Virginia Hewlett Douglass (June 1, 1849 – December 14, 1889; née Virginia Lewis Molyneaux Hewlett) was an African-American suffragist. She was married to Frederick Douglass, Jr.
Virginia Jackson Kiah (June 3, 1911 – December 28, 2001) was an African-American educator and artist who spent a large part of her life in Savannah, Georgia, where Kiah Hall is now named for her. She was the daughter of civil-rights activist Lillie May…
Virginia Lugenia McLaurin (née Campbell, March 12, 1909 – November 14, 2022) was an American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry, farm worker, and a semi-supercentarian or supercentenarian, since her birth certificate was not located (or…
Virginia Kimbrough Newell (née Kimbrough; October 7, 1917 – March 14, 2025) was an American politician, mathematics educator and author. She was known for being a mathematics professor and the founder of the computer science program at Winston-Salem State…
Virginia Agyeiwah Nimarkoh (born January 1967) is a British artist and activist, based in London. Nimarkoh was born in London, and studied at Goldsmiths College London from 1986 to 1989, graduating with a PhD in Fine Art (Theory & Practice). Her practice…
The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.105.1a, 2011.174.105.1b, 2011.174.105.1c, 2011.174.105.1d, 2011.174.105.1e, and 2011.174.105.1f. Virginia Simms George remembers growing up in segregated Newport News, Virginia, attending Virginia…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.105.1a-f
Virnetta Anderson, née Nelson (1920–2006) was an American-Canadian community activist and politician, who was elected to Calgary City Council in 1974 as the city's first Black Canadian municipal councillor.
Viviane da Costa Reis (born 5 August 1991 in Belém) is a Brazilian physiotherapist, popular educator, feminist and political militant, member of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). She is currently Federal Deputy from Pará.
