A black-and-white digital image Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nipsey Russell, Tony Bennett, and Harry Belafonte speaking with members of the press. Kings stands left of center, wearing a Gatsby hat, button-up t-shirt and dark pants. He is holding hands with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.78
A black-and-white digital image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. standing at a podium speaking into a microphone while a group of men and one woman hold hands with crossed arms in the background. King stands behind the podium to the right of the image. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.12
A black-and-white digital image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson standing at a banquet table with microphones. The men and women clapping around them include Diane Nash and Fannie Lou Hamer. Robinson stands behind the podium labeled [L.R.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.13
An oral history interview and conversation with pediatrician Dr. MaryLouise Patterson, M. D. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.2.1.1 and 2025.12.2.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file (2025.12.2.1.3,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.2.1
The Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans Collection documents how she broke boundaries as one of the first African American women physicians to have her own practice. The collection highlights her role as a physician and the great impact she had on the health and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2019.109
This black and white photograph shows Rev. Ralph David Abernathy facing the camera and standing at the pulpit with microphones inside Ebenezer Baptist Church. Abernathy is speaking to an unidentified crowd at Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.94.5
This black and white photograph was shows Ralph David Abernathy outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church after the first commemorative birthday event for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1969. Abernathy has his head bent toward an unidentified woman who has a hand on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.94.36
This black and white photograph shows Dr. Wendel Phillips Whalum Sr. conducting the Morehouse College Glee Club for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969 inside Ebenezer Baptist Church. Cleveland Robinson, sitting with his legs crossed at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.94.21
This is a black and silver beaded drawstring bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It is a pouch shaped bag with the surface covered in small black beads with geometric designs formed out of small silver beads. The design across the middle of the bag is a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.77
This is a patterned dress that Etta Moten Barnett wore in in a photograph by Van der Zee. The long dress has long bell sleeves and a high neckline. It has a thin patterned outer layer and a black lining. The outer layer has a black background with wide…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.18
Emerald green, bat wing maxi dress designed by JIBRI owner and designer Jasmine Elder. The dress was commissioned by the artist Amy Sherald for her portrait titled, Breonna Taylor. The solid color, size 14-16 dress is constructed from matte stretch crepe…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.12
This dress (a) is a wrap style made from a plain weave viscose fabric with a printed design of dark brown and yellow flowers and leaves. The wrap effect is achieved by crossing the front bodice at the waist seam and gathered fabric on the proper left side…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.1ab
A periwinkle blue crepe shift dress designed by Tahari Arthur S. Levine and worn by Stacey Abrams on election night 2018 during her Georgia gubernatorial campaign. The dress is knee-length, with three-quarter sleeves and a high envelope collar with a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.6.25
Drew Saunders Days III (August 29, 1941 – November 15, 2020) was an American legal scholar who served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. He also served as the first African American Assistant Attorney…
This black-and-white photograph depicts a man sitting on the grass playing a traditional African drum. The man is wearing a fedora, dark shirt, jacket, and pants. He is seated with his legs drawn up and the drum held between his knees. Eyes focused on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.32
This black-and-white photograph depicts a man playing a traditional African drum. Wearing a black beret and a camouflage jacket, the figure is turned three-quarters away from the viewer. The drum, which he is beating with his bare hands, is slung over his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.40
Dublin Walker (often noted as Dublin I. Walker or Dublin J. Walker) was an African-American State Senator in South Carolina. A Republican, he represented Chester County, South Carolina from 1874 to 1877 and also served as the county's school commissioner.…
Duchess Harris is Special Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Macalester College. She is an African-American academic, author, and legal scholar. She is a professor of American Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota,…
Dudley E. Flood (born September 13, 1932) is an American retired educator and administrator in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and was instrumental in desegregating North Carolina schools.
Dudley Laws (May 7, 1934 – March 24, 2011) was a Canadian civil rights activist and executive director of the Black Action Defence Committee. Laws was born in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica, to parents Ezekiel and Agatha Laws, and was a brother to six other…
Duke William "D.W." Anderson (April 10, 1812 – February 17, 1873) was an American minister, educator, farmer, and participant in the Underground Railroad. Anderson was the first Black person to serve as a Justice of the Peace in the United States.
A framed black-and-white gelatin silver photograph titled “Dump Trump” by John Simmons. The photograph is an upward angle of a protester who has scaled a vertical traffic light pole with a traffic light and pedestrian light. The figure is holding onto the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.39.41ab
Duncan Daniels (born August 16, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer whose career spans over two decades. Born in Boston to Nigerian parents and raised between England and Port Harcourt, Nigeria, he worked primarily in Afrobeats and…
