A blue denim jacket worn by Wilbert Rideau while incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The jacket has full-length sleeves and closes at the center front with a metal zipper and two (2) metal snaps, one at each end. At each front side…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.139.7
This is a navy blue felt purse belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It is an oblong-shaped bag with an oval bottom and a straight top with a hinged frame opening. The opening frame is made of gold colored metal. There is a small half-oval shaped flange in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.78.1
Length of printed textile by Vlisco customized with added printed graphic portraits of Barack Obama. The fabric features a white ground with an abstract design in tones of blues with teal and olive. There are three (3) rows all the same, but with the top…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.16.8
Blue polo shirt, size XXL, promoting Wellington Webb for Mayor of Denver. In the upper left corner of the torso is white text with the printing manufacturer logo below [Win / With / Webb]. Shirt has collar and is fastened in the front with two (2) buttons.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.46.4
A t-shirt, white text on cotton textile, supporting Andrew Gillum for governor of Florida. Front of shirt reads ANDREW / GILLUM / FOR GOVERNOR / (union bug)] The union bug reads [SIGN DISPLAY AND PICTORIAL / UNION LABEL / PAINTERS / PAPERHANGERS /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.41.5
A bright blue cotton Fruit of the Loom silkscreen print color t-shirt depicting Stacey Abrams. The front of the shirt, in an artistic silkscreen rendition, depicts Stacey Abrams in her iconic bright blue cardigan and silver neck jewelry. She is framed by…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.7.5
James Baldwin's personal copy of Blues for Mr. Charlie, an original mimeographed play scrip. The script is bound in pale blue leatherette with large brass rivets. The script is inscribed to fellow-writer and filmmaker William Gunn "For Bill Gunn, at last,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.19
Blyden Jackson (October 12, 1910 – May 1, 2000) was a Black American academic, essayist, and activist. The grandson of slaves, born in the segregated South, Jackson was the first Black American to become a full professor at the University of North Carolina…
Blyden Brown Jackson Jr. (June 2, 1936 – April 29, 2012) was an American civil rights activist, marine, author, and emergency medical technician. He is best known for his novels Operation Burning Candle and Totem. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut and…
Bob Bryant (August 11, 1944 – February 25, 2016) was an American politician. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Bryant served in the United States Army and served in South Vietnam. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Columbia College.
Robert Chance (September 10, 1940 – October 3, 2013) was an American first baseman and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and California Angels in part of six seasons spanning 1963 through 1969.
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Bob Dylan playing to a crowd of participants in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. A crowd of participants is sitting in rows of folding chairs facing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.11
Robert Herbert (born March 7, 1945) is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq War, racism and American…
Robert "Bob" Mants Jr. (April 25, 1943 – December 7, 2011) was an American civil rights activist, serving as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Mants moved to Lowndes County, working for civil rights for the…
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the…
A black-and-white photograph of Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson, by Platon. The three subjects are depicted from the knees up, facing the viewer. The photograph’s perspective is from an angle that looks up at the three from about waist…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.33.15
Christopher Delmar Caldwell (born June 22, 1986), also known by his stage name Caldwell Tidicue and better known by his drag name Bob the Drag Queen, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, activist, musician, author, podcaster, and reality television…
Bobbie L. Steele (born October 18, 1937) was sworn in as the 32nd president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners on August 1, 2006. She had been commissioner for the 2nd district of Cook County, Illinois for 20 years and served out the remainder of…
Bobby Eugene Wright (March 1, 1934, Hobson City, Alabama – April 6, 1982, Chicago) was an American clinical psychologist, scholar, educator, political activist and humanitarian. His parents were Benjamin and Myrtle Wright. He received his BSc in Education…
Robert James Hutton (April 21, 1950 – April 6, 1968), also known as Lil' Bobby, was the treasurer and first recruit to join the Black Panther Party. Alongside Eldridge Cleaver and other Panthers, he was involved in a confrontation with Oakland police that…
Bobby Joe Champion (born December 17, 1963) is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents the 59th district, which includes portions of…
