Morgan Clyde "Bobby" Robinson (April 16, 1917 – January 7, 2011) was an American independent record producer and songwriter in New York City, most active from the 1950s through the mid-1980s. Robinson produced hits by Wilbert Harrison, the Shirelles, Dave…
A black-and-white photograph of Bobby Seale campaigning for Mayor of Oakland. Seale, at the proper right of the photograph, is wearing an overcoat, button-down shirt and tie, and he is gesturing with both hands. Seale is accompanied by Elaine Brown, who…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.123.9
A black-and-white photograph of Bobby Seale speaking at the Black Community Survival Conference held in the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California. Seale is standing at the center of the photograph, on a stage in front of fully closed stage curtains. He…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.123.11
Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist who interpreted songs by popular composers from the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen,…
A black-and-white digital image of Bobby Simmons standing in front of an American flag. The portrait features only the bust of Simmons, wearing a stripped collared t-shirt and jean overalls. Simmons has white lotion covering his face with the word [VOTE]…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.59
Bobby Southworth (born December 16, 1969) is an American retired mixed martial artist who fought in the Light Heavyweight division. He has fought in PRIDE FC and appeared on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter. He was the first Strikeforce Light Heavyweight…
Bobby William Austin (born December 29, 1944) is an American sociologist, lecturer, and writer. He is a leading scholar on African-American men and boys and was the first person, as a Program Officer with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to fund major…
Robert Dwayne Womack ( WOH-mak; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career…
Bobbye Jean Hall is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 20 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100.
"Bobeh" - Lower Eastside, Manhattan, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 151. A black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman sitting on a wood bench. The bench is up against a building with a brick facade,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.114
Houston Harris (July 10, 1924 – January 20, 1998) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Bobo Brazil. Credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling, Harris is considered one of the first…
Reel two of a 1925 silent film with the title Body and Soul. It consists of a single reel of 16mm black-and-white polyester film without a sound track. The film tells the story of an escaped prisoner on the run (played by Paul Robeson) who returns to his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.80.1a
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