Charles Richard "Bubba" Wells Jr. (born July 26, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former player. He played college basketball for Austin Peay State University and later professionally, including for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA and Dafni in the…
John Russell "Buck" Hunt (September 10, 1891 – December 21, 1927) was an American college football coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now known as the Virginia University of Lynchburg) in…
John Quincy Adams Barbee (March 16, 1914 – January 14, 2000), nicknamed "Bud", was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Barbee graduated from Whitted High School. A "prodigious power-hitter", he…
Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries and later jazz scholars as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later…
Buddy Bradley (July 24, 1905 – July 17, 1972) was a transformative African-American choreographer who brought jazz and tap dance to new stages on both sides of the Atlantic from the Harlem Renaissance onwards, In the 1930s he relocated to London. He worked…
Claude Henry K. "Buddy" Young (January 5, 1926 – September 4, 1983) was an American professional football player and executive in the National Football League (NFL). A native of Chicago, he was Illinois state champ in track and field in the 100-yard dash.…
Buford F. Gordon (August 21, 1893 – 1952) was an African American civil rights activist, clergyman and social scientist. A master of divinity from the University of Chicago, Buford F. Gordon first was a pastor at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church…
A clay brick that was once part of the structure of Bethune-Cookman University's White Hall. The brick is a standard solid style brick, with some irregularity in shape because of a chunk of mortar affixed to the top side. The brick is a faintly reddish…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.97
A clay brick that was once part of the structure of Spelman College's Upton Hall. The brick is a standard solid style brick, with slight irregularity because of a loss at one of the corners. The brick is a deep red color, and all sides of the brick are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.118