An Ebony magazine, August 1965 Special Issue, featuring the cover article, “The White Problem in America,” Vol. XX No. 10. The front cover features a white illustration of a man’s profile facing the left edge of the magazine, set against a black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.53.4
An Ebony magazine, June 1966, featuring the cover article, “The Natural Look: New Mode for Negro Women,” Vol. XXI No. 8. The front cover features a color photograph of a Diana Smith. Smith is depicted from the neck up and she is looking at the viewer. She…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.53.5
An Ebony magazine, October 1967, featuring the cover article, “The Fifth Dimension: White Sound in a Black Group,” Vol. XXII No. 12. The front cover of the magazine features a color photograph of the band 5th Dimension. From left to right is Ronald…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.53.6
An issue of Ebony Magazine from September 1968. On the cover, Martin Luther King, Jr. holding hands with Coretta Scott King during a march, with the headline "Coretta King: In Her Husband's Footsteps." Inside, a Pepsi ad with integrated kids’ baseball team.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.35.1.14
An Ebony magazine, August 1969 Special Issue, featuring the cover article, “The Black Revolution,” Vol. XXIV No. 10. The front cover features a black-and-white painted portrait of a man. The man is depicted from the neck up and is facing the viewer. He is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.53.7
An August 1973 issue of Ebony Magazine titled, The Black Middle Class. The front cover of the magazine is a fish-eye lens view of a photograph of a man walking down a street in a city. The man is dressed in a suite and carries a briefcase. The street is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.22
A blue rug designed by Little Wing Lee.Titled ECHOIC I, the handmade Persian knot rug was constructed in India using hand spun wool from New Zealand. The rug has a black ground with a geometric design of asymmetrical rectangles in two different tones of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.34
A black and white digital image of Ed Atkins walking along oyster beds on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina. He is on the right side of the photograph walking with his left side facing the camera. He is wearing a baseball cap, a sweater, jeans, rubber…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.16
Ed Mitchell (born 1948 or 1949) is an American pitmaster and businessman. Mitchell's frequent media appearances and advocacy for the use of heritage breed pork has earned him the title of the most "famous pitmaster" in North Carolina. Mitchell has appeared…
Edgar Lee Andrews (born May 31, 1966) is an American politician, tech entrepreneur and minister who has served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 43rd district since 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. In June 2025, he…
Eddie Carl Brown (born November 26, 1940) is an American investment manager, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and president of Brown Capital Management, a Baltimore-based firm that has amassed over $10 billion under management since its…
Ed Wingate Jr. (13 February 1919 – 5 May 2006) was an African-American record label owner based in Detroit in the 1960s. Although never convicted, he was implicated as a major figure in the illegal numbers game in Detroit.
Edith Bornn (August 30, 1922 – June 4, 2010) was an American attorney from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, who became the first woman with a private law practice on the island. Known as an environmentalist, children's advocate and organizer of the…
Edith Cumbo (c. 1735 – ?) was a free mixed-race Black woman and entrepreneur who lived in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her life story is taught in the Advanced Placement American history curriculum to illustrate the challenges that free African Americans faced…
Edna Wilson-Mosley (May 31, 1925 – August 26, 2014) was a prominent politician, civil rights activist, and educator in Denver and Aurora, Colorado. Wilson-Mosley was a civil rights specialist for Colorado's Civil Rights Commission. She was the only Black…
Edward D. Green (February 25, 1865 – August 23, 1936) was an American politician and businessman. He represented the 1st District, as a Republican in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1913. During his first term, he…
Edward Elder Cooper (1859–1908) was an American newspaper publisher. He was a prominent early black publisher in the United States. He was born into slavery on June 10, 1859, in Duval County, Florida.
Edward J. Sanderlin (September 14, 1835 – April 15, 1909) was born into slavery. He was in Cincinnati by 1850, where he attended the Gilmore School. He took part in the California Gold Rush and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in Colorado.
Edward Lewis (born May 15, 1940) is an American business executive and former magazine publisher. He was one of the co-founders of Essence magazine, and chairman of Latina magazine. He was the first black chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America.
Edward Walton Pearson, Sr. (January 25, 1872 – July 4, 1946) was an African-American entrepreneur, Buffalo Soldier and Spanish–American War veteran, civil rights leader and pioneering sports enthusiast. He moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in 1906, where…
Edward Wyckoff Williams (born 6 February 1978) is an American television producer, correspondent, columnist, political analyst and former investment banker; whose work has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BuzzFeed, PBS, ABC, CNN, CBS, BBC, VICE Media,…
Edwin C. Berry (c. 1854 – 1931), often referred to as E. C. Berry and occasionally as Edward C. Berry, was an American hotelier who was among the most successful African-American hoteliers in the country during his era.
