An avocado green polka dot lace top worn on Soul Train by dancer Sheri Byers in the late 1970s. The front of the top has a boxy, straight cut and is made from one panel of fabric, which includes the scalloped collar. Green machine lace makes up the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.9.1
Gwendolen Avril Coleridge-Taylor (8 March 1903 – 21 December 1998) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. She was the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his wife Jessie (née Walmisley).
Awa Ly (born 4 January 1977) is a French singer, songwriter, and actress of Senegalese origin who lives in Rome, Italy. She has released three studio albums, Modulated (2009), Five and a Feather (2016), and Safe and Sound (2020).
A Pittsburg Courier All-American Band 1942 award from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The award won by Calloway in the Pittsburgh Courier’s 3rd Annual Band Contest, which was also sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, was for the position of Band…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.46
A clear, acrylic Black History Tribute award presented by Delta Air Lines, to Eugene Harmond, Delta Air Lines' first Black male flight attendant. Mounted on a circular base, the rectangular award has an asymmetric top edge and features a design of a clear…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.50.16
A Talent Contest Winner Award from 1954. The award has tall wood base with metal theatrical masks on the top. The base includes a wood stepped platform at the bottom. In the center, a tall rectangular wood pillar rises with attached wood ribbed columns on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.178.27
Great Black Music Award 975 awarded to Collenane Cosey by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in recognition of her fundraising and other support on behalf of the group. Signed by George Emanuel Lewis, Chairman, and John Shenoy…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.105.10
This is a bronze statue made by Elizabeth Catlett for The Links, Incorporated. The piece is of a woman figure with arms uplifted and fabric covering her body, standing on a bronze circular base, which is adhered to a wooden base that slopes forward in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.229
This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. There are two young boys wearing hats in the foreground. In the background is a man carrying a wicker basket of cotton on his right shoulder. The stereograph card consists of two similar…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.17
This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. There are two young boys wearing hats in the foreground. In the background is a man carrying a wicker basket of cotton on his right shoulder. The stereograph card consists of two similar…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.16
This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. Consisting of two adults and two children, they stand partially bent over in a large cotton field. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.9
Kia Michelle Stevens (born September 4, 1977) is an American actress and semi-retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with TNA Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women…
