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Buildings and Structures

Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

1882-1885

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Gothic style window consisting of four panels, the largest being a rectangular window at the bottom half, and the top half being divided into three parts consisting of two equally sized vertical pointed arches with squared bottoms fitting inside of a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.95.2
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Buildings and Structures

Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

1882-1885

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Gothic style window consisting of four panels, the largest being a rectangular window at the bottom half, and the top half being divided into three parts consisting of two equally sized vertical pointed arches with squared bottoms fitting inside of a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.95.3
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Buildings and Structures

Glass window and wood painted frame from the original Antioch Baptist Church

1882-1885

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

Gothic style window wood frames consisting of four panels, the largest being a rectangular window at the bottom half, and the top half being divided into three parts consisting of two equally sized vertical pointed arches with squared bottoms fitting…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.95.4
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Accessories and Personal Effects

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case

mid-19th century

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The glasses have round, circular lenses and thin metal temple bars made of the same material that frames the lenses. There are small, browned nose pads attached to the bridge. The glasses rest on a small, worn pink cloth inside of a velvet lined case. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.273.27ab
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Civil Rights & Community

Glendora Putnam

1923–2016

Glendora McIlwain Putnam (July 25, 1923 – June 5, 2016) was a civil rights activist and the first African American woman to serve as the Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts.

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Business & Enterprise

Glenn Thompson

1940–2001

Glenn Thompson (September 24, 1940 – September 7, 2001) was an American book publisher and activist. Born in Harlem, New York, he moved in 1968 to England, where he began a community-based bookshop called Centerprise in Hackney, East London, and went on to…

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Civil Rights & Community

Gloria Baylis

1929–2017

Gloria Leon Baylis (née Clarke; June 29, 1929 – April 12, 2017) was a Barbadian Canadian civil rights activist, registered nurse and entrepreneur. She won the first-ever case of employment-related racial discrimination in Canada, and later founded the…

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Civil Rights & Community

Gloria Cameron

1932–2020

Florence Tina "Gloria" Cameron (27 June 1932 – 15 March 2020) was a Jamaican-born British community worker, playwright, activist and promoter of West Indian culture. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she emigrated to England as part of the "Windrush…

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Sports

Gloria Douglas

1992–

Gloria Edna Douglas (born May 4, 1992) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Segunda Federación club Pradejón. Born in the mainland United States, she is a Puerto Rico international.

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Education & Scholarship

Gloria Ladson-Billings

1947–

Gloria Jean Ladson-Billings FBA (born 1947) is an American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator known for her work in the fields of culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory, and the pernicious effects of systemic racism and economic…

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Literature & Journalism

Gloria Oden

1923–2011

Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Resurrections, a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of…

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Literature

Gloria Purvis

Biography

Gloria Purvis is an African-American Catholic public scholar, speaker, author, podcaster, and activist in Washington, D.C. She has spoken and written extensively on women's rights, abortion, sex, marriage, family, religious liberty, and racial justice.

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Civil Rights & Community

Gloria Richardson

1922–2021

Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern…

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Civil Rights & Community

Gloria Taylor

1950–2008

Gloria Taylor (March 1951 – 7 April 2008) was a Nigerian activist whose 10-year-old son, Damilola Taylor, was brutally attacked and murdered by two youths in a vicious attack at the North Peckham Estate of south London in November 2000. Her son's murder…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Visual Arts

Glory

2008

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An archival pigment print photograph of collaged images. In the foreground of the image is a black-and-white printed paisley motif with a center cut out through which the viewer peers at a black-and-white photographic print of a woman standing with a stack…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.77.10
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Biography & Culture

Gobo Fango

Biography

Gobo Fango (ca. 1855 – 1886) was a South African Xhosa who emigrated to the United States with a white Latter-day Saint family in 1861. While he never joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he was one of the most prominent…

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Film & Television

Godfrey

1969–

Godfrey Chukwuma Ndubuisi Danchimah Jr. (born July 21, 1969), known mononymously as Godfrey, is an American comedian and actor who has appeared on BET, VH1, Comedy Central, and feature films, such as Soul Plane, Original Gangstas, Zoolander, and Johnson…

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Clothing - Sports Uniforms

Goggles worn by Cheryl Miler

1983-1986

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Goggles worn by Cheryl Miller. The goggles are clear and there is a white cloth tape around each of the temples (the parts that go behind the ears). The tape is yellowing in some areas and is dirty in others. The proper right temple has letters handwritten…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.222.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Going home

1979; printed 2007

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This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of two men walking through a grassy field and away from the camera. Both men are wearing short-sleeve shirts, hats, dark pants and are each carrying a chicken in their left hand. There is a large…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.310.41
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Visual Arts

Going to Church

1950s

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An oil painting depicting a scene of pastoral life in Louisiana. The top third of the painting is a swath of blues and greens depicting the sky. Below the sky is a horizontal line of figures walking towards a church which is prominently featured at center…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.176.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Going to Puerto Rico for the First Time

1972

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a young boy sitting on luggage, on his way to Puerto Rico for his first time. The background is a blur of people. The young boy wears a horizontal and vertical stripped, short sleeved shirt with a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.53.11
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Gold and black fascinator with pin from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

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Black and gold fascinator (a) with veil, feathers, and pin (b) designed by Mae Reeves. The body of the fascinator is a formed from black plastic net into a circular cap with a flat top faced in a black and metallic gold floral brocade and decorated with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.38.1ab
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Gold and black jacquard caftan designed by Dapper Dan for André Leon Talley

ca. 2007

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A gold jacquard caftan designed by Dapper Dan for André Leon Talley. The metallic gold caftan features a circular, bronze-colored floral pattern throughout. Each circle has petal-like edges and a raised leaf and petal design at center. The caftan has a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.31.2
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Gold and fuchsia cocktail dress and jacket by Bruce Oldfield

1988-1989

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Gold and fuchsia cocktail dress (.1) with coordinating jacket (.2) by Bruce Oldfield. The strapless mini dress (.1) is made from a golden yellow silk satin. A band of the fabric is folded over the top bust line and left loose along the bottom edge, with a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.141.7.1-.2
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