Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of an unidentified camper holding a textile at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. The camper is standing in front of a clothing line, inspecting the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.59.96
Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of an unidentified camper sanding a wood project at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. The camper sits on a chair, the wood piece on her lap. Holding it…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.59.97
Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of two unidentified campers sanding a wood project at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. Both campers sit, with the camper on the right sitting upright…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.59.98
Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of two unidentified campers sanding a wood project at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. Both campers sit, with the camper on the right sitting upright…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.59.99
A black and white photograph of a boy writing on a blackboard in a school classroom. The blackboard is on the wall on the left side of the image and the boy writes on bottom of the board with white chalk held high with his right hand. His left arm is bent…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.26.1
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting and reading a booklet. The women are seated in front of tiled, white wainscoting, with the top row existing of narrow dark rectangular tile. Resting above the tile, in the upper left corner is a sign with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.35
Black and white photograph of Malcolm X standing amongst stacks of books inside Michaux's Bookstore looking down and reading a book. The image was captured in 1962 but was printed from the original negative under the supervision of the Yoors Family…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.162.2
A hardback book with dark red cloth covers. At the top of the front cover is embossed gold text that reads "UP FROM SLAVERY / AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BOOKER T. WASHINGTON." On the spine at the top is also embossed gold text "UP FROM/ SLAVERY / AN /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.179
This is a hardback book with red cloth covers. At the top of the front cover is embossed gold text that reads "UP FROM SLAVERY / AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BOOKER T. WASHINGTON." On the spine at the top is also embossed gold text "UP FROM/ SLAVERY / AN /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.77.73
Uraina Simone Clark is an American neuroscientist and Director of the Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research makes use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to understand how stressors…
Urania Prince Cummings (1889 - March 18, 1978) was an American painter born in the Danish island of Saint Thomas. She is documented as being an early West Indian pioneer settler in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area. She was an artist, painter,…
A US Marine Corps Sword (a), with scabbard (b) and sword sheath cover (c) (leather and cotton), presented to then 2nd Lt Wendell C. Chinn Sr., upon graduation from Prairie View A&M University in 1972. The sword is etched with a pattern and the text “United…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.79abc
A scholar and reformer, Usman dan Fodio led a jihad that established the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest states in nineteenth-century Africa, and inspired a flourishing of Islamic scholarship.
V. Mitch McEwen (born 1978) is an American architect and urban planner, cultural activist, and assistant professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture. She is co-founder of Atelier Office, a design and cultural practice working within the…
Valena Cecilia Jones (née MacArthur; August 3, 1872 – January 13, 1917) was an American educator and principal. Several schools have been named in her honor, including in New Orleans, and Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi.
Valencia Joyner Koomson is an American electrical engineer. She is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic…
Valeria Lynch Lee (born 1942 in Halifax County, North Carolina) is an African American philanthropist and an advocate for public media in North Carolina. Lee was a co-founder of one of the first black public radio stations in the nation and has served as…
Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and…
Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 – February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic. She was best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. She was an associate professor and the…
Valerie Ellen Stone (born 1958) is an American physician who is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She served for many years as Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and…
Valerie Jerome (born 28 April 1944) is an African-Canadian retired Track and Field sprinter, educator, and political activist. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. She finished third in the 1959 Pan American Games 4 × 100…
Valerie Kinloch (born 1974) is an American writer, educator, and academic administrator. She is the president of the Johnson C. Smith University as of August 2023. She also served as the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School…
Valerie Mason-John (born 22 November 1962) is an English academic and the co-founder of Eight Step Recovery – Using The Buddha's Teaching to Overcome Addiction, an alternative to the 12-step programmes for addiction.
Valerie Jean Maynard (August 22, 1937 – September 19, 2022) was an American sculptor, teacher, printmaker, and designer. Maynard's work frequently addressed themes of social inequality and the civil rights movement. Her work has been exhibited in the…
