A metal and wood margin trowel. The trowel has a metal rectangular blade with a metal and wood handle. The handle has rounded edges and is made of a light colored wood. The blade of the trowel is painted black.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.260.9
Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, Boardwalk Empire. In 2015, Bingham began starring as one of lead characters in the ABC drama…
Margot Webb (18 March 1910 – 5 April 2005) was a professional dancer trained in ballet, waltz, tango, and bolero. She and her dance partner, Harold Norton, were one of the first African American ballroom teams and were known professionally as “Norton and…
Marguerite P. Justice (July 1921 – 17 September 2009) was the second woman, and the first black woman, to serve as a police commissioner in the United States.
Marguerite Wyke OBE (May 1908 – 1995) was an American-born Trinidadian teacher, poet, artist and politician. After growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, and working as a teacher, she married and moved to Canada for a decade and then relocated to Trinidad.…
When her city of Flint, Michigan had unsafe water, Mari wrote to leaders and raised money so families could get clean water and supplies. She shows that kids can speak up and make change.
Maria Auxiliadora da Silva (1935–1974) was a self-taught Brazilian painter. Her work was nationally and internationally acclaimed. Characterized by bold colors, thick textures, and mixed media, her paintings center largely on the following themes and…
A color photograph portrait of Maria Berrio against a blue background. The bust portrait captures Berrio in profile from the shoulders up, her head and body turned to her proper right. She is wearing a white top with a red beaded necklace and a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.13
Maria Elaine Hadden is an American politician and community activist from Chicago. She is a member of the Chicago City Council, serving as alderperson for the city's 49th ward. She won election to that office after defeating 28-year incumbent Joe Moore in…
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was an American Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his…
Maria Coles Perkins Lawton (April 30, 1864 – 1946) was a notable figure in the national women’s club movement of the early 20th century. She was the president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs from 1916 to 1926.
Mariah Lopez (born 1985) is an American activist based in New York City. She has been a plaintiff in multiple lawsuits related to civil and human rights, and has lobbied for legislation and greater policy protections for LGBTQ people. Lopez is the…
Mariah Paris Balenciaga, also simply known as Mariah or Mariah Balenciaga, is the stage name of Elijah A. Kelly (born February 13, 1981), an American drag queen, ball performer, and television personality, best known for competing on the third season of…
Mariah Bell Otey Reddick (1832–1922) was an American midwife, nurse, and domestic worker who was held as a slave at Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. She worked for the family of Colonel John McGavock for four generations, both as a house slave…
Marie Battle Singer (1910–1985) was an American-British psychotherapist, and the United Kingdom's first Black psychoanalyst. She was born in 1910 into a family of educators in Okolona, Mississippi. Her father was Wallace A. Battle, founder of the Okolona…
An abstract mixed media sculpture by Adebunmi Gdabedo. The sculpture consists of a large, cylindrical ceramic vessel with human and ceramic locs attached along the back. The vessel is made with red clay hand dug from the True Blue Plantation in South…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.84
Marie Priscilla Martin Foster (October 24, 1917 – September 6, 2003) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the 1960s. Her successful voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama fueled her to become an activist, and she began…
Marie A. Hicks (December 20, 1923 – April 19, 2007) was an African-American activist during the American civil rights movement. Nicknamed "the Rosa Parks of Girard College," Hicks is best known for leading thousands of pickets around the wall of that…
Marie Jackson Stuart (1878-1925) was a New York-based dramatic reader who used her performances and oratory skills to promote Black women's suffrage. She was president of the Harriet Tubman Neighborhood Club of New York when Tubman died and it was Stuart…
Marie Louise Clay Clinton (1871 – January 9, 1934) was an American educator, singer, and church leader. She was the founder and superintendent of the Buds of Promise Juvenile Mission Society, under the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society (WH&OMS)…
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, a herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, and…
Marie Smith (1898–1991) was an activist in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the founders of the Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and was the first female president of the Portland Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of…
Marie-Yasmine "Mimi" Alidou d'Anjou (born April 28, 1995) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Northern Super League club Montreal Roses FC and the Canada national team.
