Anajá Caetano was an Afro-Brazilian writer who wrote about slavery, religion and discrimination. Caetano was the first woman to write a novel in 20th-century Brazil.
Beach at Anamabol at low tide. Beached canoes are seen in foreground and house in background, between 1877-1895. Accompanying inscription reads "Landing Place Anamabol." Photographer unknown.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170054
Anarcha Westcott (c. 1828 – June 27, 1869) was an American enslaved woman who is known as the "Mother of Modern Gynaecology" for having undergone a series of experimental surgical procedures conducted by medical doctor J. Marion Sims, without the use of…
Accompanying text reads, " Anarchic rural "development." Despite efforts by BEAU to survey and supervise the area, plots have been illegally sold by chefs de localite. The pictures were taken from the top of a termite hill.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2003-004, Item EEPA 2003-040079-28
Jermaine Aranha (born 21 January 1982), better known by the stage name Anastarzia Anaquway, is a Bahamian drag queen and television personality based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the only Bahamian to featured in the Drag Race television franchise,…
Ancella Radford Bickley (July 4, 1930 – February 16, 2026) was an American historian who was involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia.
Ancelma Perlacios Peralta (born 26 July 1964) is a Bolivian cocalera activist, politician, and trade unionist who served as senator for La Paz from 2015 to 2020. Born in the rural community of Chicaloma, Perlacios ascended the ranks of women's union…
Ancer Lee Haggerty (born August 26, 1944) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. At the time of his nomination to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1993, he was serving as…
A black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of three women engaged in a memorial ritual for enslaved African ancestors of the Middle Passage during the annual event held by the People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective in Coney Island. The women,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.18.3
Two anchor posts and two hinge clamps for 2008.11.1ab, the Philip Simmons metalwork gate. One of the posts (.2a) has an open top and the other post (.2b) has a closed dome top. Each post has a small, flat, horizontal platform near the bottom, visibly just…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.11.2a-d
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