Black and white photograph of Butch Morris seated on a stool. He is perched with his hands grasping the front of the stool with his legs posed on either side of his arms. He wears a dark sweater and light colored corduroy pants. He looks at the camera with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.157.7
Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III (born 1974), also known as Bilal Ware in the American Muslim community, is an American associate professor and hip hop artist who was the vice presidential nominee for the Green Party in 2024. He is one half of the hip hop duo…
Butler "String Beans" May (August 18, 1894 – November 17, 1917) was an American vaudeville performer, singer, pianist and comedian. He has been described as "the greatest attraction in African-American vaudeville, the first recognizable blues star," and…
Butterfly McQueen (born Thelma McQueen; January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared on the silver screen as Prissy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She also appeared in the films Cabin in the Sky…
Square button advertising the film "Next Friday." Button features two men, Ice Cube and Mike Epps, pictured from above. Ice Cube is seen on the right side of the middle holding a lit lighter in his PR hand up toward the viewer. At the feet of Ice Cube is a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.35.1
Rectangular button advertising the film "Space Jam." Button is vertically oriented and features an illustration of Bugs Bunny's PL side of the face on the left and Michael Jordan's PR side of the face on the right. In the center of the lower half is the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.35.2
A blue button with the slogan for the 1985 Brandywine Mountain Music convention printed in white. Also in white is a line drawing of a seated man playing the fiddle.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.13.27
A white button with "Brandywine Mountain Music Convention 1987" printed in green. Also in green is a line drawing in of a seated man playing the fiddle.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.13.29
Norris Chrisleventon "Buzz" Johnson (2 November 1951 – 11 February 2014), generally known as Buzz Johnson, was a Tobago-born publisher and activist who in the 1970s relocated to England, UK. There he set up a small publishing company called Karia Press,…
An archival pigment print photograph of collaged images. The central image is a black-and-white photograph of an older woman seated with two children. Another child is in the foreground of the photograph, with just their head and eyes appearing in front of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.77.9
This black-and-white photograph depicts two young men standing in the crowd. One figure stands slightly in front holding a handmade sign that reads "BY ANY / MEANS / NECESSARY". He is wearing jeans and a large jacket. He gazes slightly above the viewer and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.45
A black-and-white linocut, By Parties Unknown, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The print depicts the lynched body of a male figure, noose tied around his neck and hands bound behind his back, lain on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.145.1.5
