A shiny green jacket with embroidery on the front and back. The jacket’s sleeve cuff, waist, and collar are made of elastic material. The jacket has a white lining and a black zipper down front. Embroidery on the proper right chest of the jacket reads…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.133.1.5
An Alpha Kappa Alpha pullover jacket worn during the Women's March on Washington by Dr. Calonie Gray. The dark green, nylon jacket has full-length sleeves, elastic wristbands, and a drawstring hood and hem with plastic cord locks. The jacket closes at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.96.3
This is a gold Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) pendant belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. The pendant consists of a circle of gold colored metal with a small loop on its top rim for suspension. On the front face of the pendant is the AKA crest in the center with the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.118
This is an Alpha Kappa Alpha varsity cardigan belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It is a pink wool vee-neck cardigan with bright green trim and brown plastic buttons. The green trim is at the neckline, along the front opening, the cuffs and in three bands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.26
Alphonso David (born 1970) is an American lawyer, LGBT civil rights activist, former president of the Human Rights Campaign, and current president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum. In August 2019, he became the president of the Human Rights…
Alphonso Boyle Davies (born November 2, 2000) is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back, winger, or wing-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Canada national team. Regarded as one of the best left-backs in the world,…
Alphonso David Jordan (born November 1, 1987, in El Paso, Texas) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the triple jump. He represented his country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing twelfth. His personal bests in the event…
Alphonza Gadsden Sr. (December 13, 1945 – January 17, 2025) was an American Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2020, he was bishop ordinary of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Diocese of the Southeast.
Altar covers of burgundy velvet with gold fringe in two pieces, (a) drapes over the altar and (b) fits over the lid of the kit case. (a): A rectangular altar cover that drapes over the platform of the chaplain's kit case. The front is made of burgundy cut…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.205.1.10ab
A wooden altered molding plane. There is evidence of dents, abrasions, and scratches, but the plane has a dark stain that obscures damage from past use. There is uneven staining and a minor checking crack at the stock toe bottom. In relief on the toe,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.22
Althea McNish CM FSCD (1924–2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Artists…
Althea T. L. Simmons (April 17, 1924 – September 13, 1990) was a civil rights activist and attorney with the NAACP for over 35 years. Simmons was the head of the NAACP's Washington D.C. office and its chief lobbyist from 1979 to 1990. She was well known…
Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the…
Alvera Rita Kalina, (née Frederic, October 21, 1921 – April 5, 2014) was a multiracial American woman from New Orleans who passed as white after moving north to Ohio. She married a white man, keeping her mixed heritage a secret from him and their children.…
Alvin B. Aberdeen Duncan (27 February 1913 – 29 January 2009) was an African Canadian historian and a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran of World War II. Duncan's family is the only family known in Oakville, Ontario who were directly involved in the…
Alyssa Paola Thompson (born November 7, 2004) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the United States women's national team. She was named the national Gatorade Player of the Year in…
Alzira Rufino (6 July 1949 – 26 April 2023) was a Brazilian feminist and activist who was associated with the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement. She was the founder of the Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra (Black Women's House of Culture), the…
Amal Fashanu (born 21 August 1988) is a British fashion designer, filmmaker, journalist, and activist against homophobia in sport. She produced Britain's Gay Footballers, a BBC Three documentary. She is the founder and CEO of the Justin Fashanu Foundation,…
A color photograph portrait of Amalia Berrio against a blue background. The bust portrait captures Berrio from the shoulders up, her head turned slightly to her proper right as she gazes past the camera. She is wearing a bright yellow top with a matching…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.12
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring. Born…
Amanda Smith (née Berry; January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915) was an American Methodist preacher and former slave who funded the Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children in Harvey, Illinois (outside Chicago).…
Amandine Pierre-Louis (born 18 February 1995) is a professional soccer player who plays as a defender and winger for Northern Super League club Montreal Roses FC. Born in Canada, she represented the country at youth level before switching to the Haiti…
