Dorothy L. Hollingsworth (October 29, 1920 – July 27, 2022) was an American educator based in Seattle. Hollingsworth was born on October 29, 1920, in Bishopville, South Carolina. Her family moved to North Carolina when she was young.
Dorothy Kuya (16 March 1933 – 23 December 2013) was a leading British communist and human rights activist from Liverpool, the co-founder of Teachers Against Racism, and the general secretary of the National Assembly of Women (NAW). She was a life-long…
Dorothy Mae Richardson (May 3, 1922 – April 28, 1991) was an African American community activist who is credited with introducing a new model of community development in the late 1960s when she led a resident campaign for better housing in her neighborhood…
Family decorating silver christmas tree and socializing. Woman in a pink dress poses for photos. Family member cooking in kitchen while family plays games next to her. circa 1965.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20170913_Swygert_S8_01
A graduation of New York University located at Madison Square Garden. The family socializes and poses with graduate. The family continues celebration at the New York Harbor posing for photos by the water.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20170913_Swygert_S8_02-03
A Vacation at Disneyland with multiple shots of park attractions and rides, family poses for photos and watching a large park ship dock at a pier. Filmed during the 70s.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20170913_Swygert_S8_05
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one…
A double-breasted taupe suit jacket with a rounded single notched collar and long sleeves. The jacket has princess seams and a shaping dart on each side. A self-fabric decorative flap mimicking a pocket continues from the side panel. Three decorative metal…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.693
This is the "Double Loop" ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The ring is made of a single thick, round sterling silver wire. The wire has been flattened and twisted into two loops, creating two bands with one inside the other. There are two…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.12.4
Double-sided hand pieced quilt made from a variety of fabrics in muted tones. One side of the quilt features several small pieced blocks. The blocks are a pattern of diagonal stripes and are sewn together with the diagonals oriented in mismatched…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.299
A doubletree harness consisting of a wood evener bar (central piece) connected to two wood single trees (end pieces) with iron joints. There is an iron ring at the center of the evener bar and iron hooks at both ends of the single trees.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.155.4
Douglas Costa de Souza (born 14 September 1990) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for UAE First Division League club Al-Ittifaq. Costa started his career with Grêmio before moving to Shakhtar Donetsk in January 2010 for a fee of…
Douglas Henry Daniels is an American historian of African American social and cultural history, Black communities in the American West, and the early history of jazz and blues. He is professor emeritus of Black Studies and History at the University of…