A digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a busy kitchen during the New York Young Lords’ breakfast program. A Young Lord is standing behind the seated children on the left. At the center is a long table set with a plastic tablecloth, plastic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.53.33
A Young Lords Party poster. The poster has a black background with white text and a graphic of four purple automatic rifles. Across the top center of the poster, white text reads: [Young Lords Party]. Below the text, the four purple automatic rifles are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.35.3
A black-and-white digital image a young man standing on the road with a group of people seen sitting on a brick wall behind. The young man stands in the middle of the road, wearing a vest and boater hat, holding one hand on his hip and the other holding…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.51
This black and white digital image depicts a young man carrying an American flag. Wearing a light colored long sleeve button down shirt, dark pants, and dark shoes, he stands in the street in front of an embankment. He holds a large American flag upright…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.53
A black-and-white digital image of two young women in profile facing right. The woman on the left is wearing a kerchief. The woman on the right is wearing a head wrap and a sweater with buttons down the center. Two of the buttons are replaced with pins…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.61
A black-and-white digital image of a young man being arrested in the middle of the street. The man stands in the center of the image with his hands behind his back. He is wearing a stripped t-shirt and jeans. The policeman stands directly behind the man,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.55
A black-and-white photograph of people with National Welfare Rights Organization picket signs on the streets of Washington, DC during the Poor People's Campaign. The image depicts a man in the foreground with a mustache, a pinstripe suit jacket, a collared…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.109.13
A pamphlet made of black print on yellowed paper. The cover features a black and white photograph of Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. The interior consists of twenty-eight pages of articles and photographs and two pages of a political cartoon about Richard…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.48
A pamphlet made of black ink on a white paper. The front cover has black ink on a green cover and features a black and white photograph of demonstrators in New York protesting the Vietnam War. The interior consists of twenty-eight pages of text and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.47
Yusef Salaam (born 1974) is an American politician, motivational speaker, and activist currently serving as a member of the New York City Council, representing the city's 9th council district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Salaam, one of the…
Yusuf Bey (born Joseph Stephens; December 21, 1935 – September 30, 2003) was an American Black Muslim activist and leader who was a member of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, an offshoot of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam (NOI). After discovering the…
Yvette M. Alexander (born October 1, 1961, in the District of Columbia) is a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She represented Ward 7 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2017.
Yvette Diane Clarke (born November 21, 1964) is an American politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. She represented New York's 11th congressional district until 2013, and then New York's 9th congressional district after…
Yvette A. Flunder (born July 29, 1955) is an American womanist, pastor, activist, and singer from San Francisco, California. Currently, she is the senior pastor of City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California and Presiding Bishop of The…
Yvette Lewis (born 1952/1953) is an American political executive and activist who served as the chair of the Maryland Democratic Party from 2011 to 2015 and 2019 to 2023.
Yvette McGee Brown (born 1960) is a judge who became the first African American female justice on the Ohio Supreme Court when she took office on January 1, 2011. She was the founding president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide…
Yvette Nicole Brown (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress, producer, writer, and host. She starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC and Yahoo Screen sitcom Community, as Dani in the 2015 reboot of The Odd Couple on CBS, and as Dina Rose on the ABC…
Yvonne Atwell (born 1943) is a Canadian community activist, former provincial politician and former hospital administrator. She is known for being the first Black woman elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Yvonne Pearl Burke (née Watson, later Brathwaite; born October 5, 1932) is an American politician and lawyer from California. She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. She served in the U.S. Congress from 1973 to 1979.
Yvonne L. Rayford Brown (September 8, 1952 – April 23, 2012) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party from the state of Mississippi. She was elected as Mayor of Tchula, serving two terms from 2001 to 2009. This small town is in Holmes…
Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb (born August 19, 1952) is an American politician from the state of Louisiana who represented the 14th district in the Louisiana State Senate from 2008 until 2020. A Democrat, she is a former member of the Louisiana House of…
Yvonne Field is a social justice advocate and social entrepreneur focusing on community wealth-building and is founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday honours list for…
Yvonne Johnson (October 26, 1942 – December 4, 2024) was an American politician who was the 46th Mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina, from 2007 until 2009. She was previously a member of the Greensboro City Council for 14 years, beginning in 1993 and Mayor…
Yvonne Lewis Holley (born August 12, 1952) is an American politician who served as the North Carolina state representative for the 38th district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, her district consisted of part of Wake County. She was the…
