A brochure on the "Legacy of Achievement: Neighborhoods and Community Development" published by the Office of the Mayor of Denver. The pamphlet is folded into four sections, printed front and back. When folded, the front of the pamphlet features a photo of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.46.17
A legal agreement between Goodwill Enterprises, a charitable organization operated by Deidre Brown of Augusta, Georgia, and James Brown Revue for a charitable concert on November 1, 1973 at the Civic Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina. The agreement…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.3.16
Two handwritten depositions from a court case, Valdec v. Gravier in Kingston, Jamaica. Document a is Nicholas Charles Van Eeckhout’s deposition and b is a deposition given by an unidentified person with the surname of Gravier who appears to be the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.1.227ab
Leila Carmelita Arcieri (born December 18, 1973) is an American actress, model and businesswoman. She was Miss San Francisco in the 1997 Miss California pageant and has appeared in several films such as XXX, Wild Things 2 and Daddy Day Care. Arcieri is the…
Lela Murray (June 12, 1887 – March 18, 1949) was a prominent black businesswoman, community leader, and advocate for civil rights in Los Angeles during the first half of the 20th century. She co-founded Murray's Ranch, billed by the press as "the only…
Lemuel Lewis Foster Sr. (1890–1981) was an American civil servant, business executive, race relations consultant, singer, and deacon. He was African American and worked as an executive of R. H. Macy & Company (now Macy's), as well as work as a supervisor…
Lena Richard (née Paul; September 9, 1892 or 1893 - November 27, 1950) was a chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, frozen food entrepreneur, and television host from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1949, Richard became the first Black woman to host her own…
Length of lilac chiffon synthetic fabric with a matte finish. The fabric measures 44 inches from seldvedge to selvedge. One raw edge of the fabric is cut jaggedly.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.27.4
Leo Vincelette Felton (born 1970) is an American former white supremacist of partial African American descent. In 2002, Felton and his white supremacist girlfriend were convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in Boston to attack Jewish and…
Leo Sidney Mackay Jr. (born August 15, 1961) is an American businessman, and a former deputy secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He is senior vice president, and an elected officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Leon Dorsey Finney Jr. (July 7, 1938 – September 4, 2020) was an American minister, community organizer and businessman. He was the founder and pastor of Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church in Chicago.
Leon Finney Sr. (1916–2008) was a barbecue restaurateur from Chicago known for founding Leon's Bar-B-Q and contributing to the development of Chicago-style barbecue.
Leon H. Washington Jr. (April 15, 1907 – June 17, 1974) was an American newspaper publisher. He was the founder and first publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African-American newspaper in Los Angeles, California.
Leon Lamar Wagner (May 13, 1934 – January 3, 2004) was an American professional baseball left fielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants (1958–1959, 1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961–1963),…
Leonard C. Bailey (c. 1825 - September 1, 1918) was an African-American entrepreneur, inventor, and banker. He founded one of the first African-American banks in the United States. Bailey was born in about 1825 to a free African-American family.
Leonard T. Miller, a native of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduated from Morehouse College in 1983 with a B.A. in business administration. He has achieved many accomplishments in aviation and motor racing and as an author.
Leontyne Butler King (July 4, 1905 – January 23, 1976) was an American businesswoman and clubwoman, based in Los Angeles, California after 1938. She was especially active as a member of the Los Angeles Public Library commission.
Leroy E. Hurte (May 2, 1915 – April 16, 2011), was an American businessman, music conductor, composer, educator, author, guitar player and vocalist, music store owner, and record producer. He was one of the few Black symphony conductors in the United…
Leroy Branch Looper (November 24, 1924 – September 11, 2011), was an American community organizer and founder of several low-income housing facilities, programs for addiction recovery, and education initiatives in San Francisco. He was known by locals as…
Leroy Smith (1911–1989) was an African American entrepreneur and activist. Born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, he later moved to Denver, Colorado where he became well known to the business community. Smith is notable for being Colorado's first African American…
Leslie Ann Esdaile Banks (née Peterson; December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011) was an American writer under the pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks. She wrote in various genres, including…
Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997), was an American architect, known for his modernist church designs. In the 1950s, he was a pioneering Black architect in Los Angeles, California. His architecture firm went by the names Bankhead's Building Design…
Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez" (short for the "President of the tenor saxophone"), was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's…
