Arthur Dial (May 10, 1930 – February 19, 2021) was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a part of the Dial family of artists, which includes his older brother, Thornton Dial, and his nephews, Thornton Dial Jr.,…
Arthur John Booker, M.D. (October 31, 1881 – August 25, 1957) was a prominent community activist and health advocate who worked in Des Moines, Iowa, and Los Angeles, California. He also served as a physician with the 365th Infantry Regiment of the 92nd…
Arthur L. Hardge (April 8, 1927 – October 29, 1983) was an American civil rights movement leader, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and a University of Rhode Island administrator. In 1968, he became Rhode Island's first African…
Arthur L. Whitaker (July 23, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was an American minister, professor, psychologist, sociologist, writer and World War II army veteran. A Baptist minister, Whitaker graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in (1952). Whitaker was…
Arthur Lee McGee (March 25, 1933 – July 1, 2019) was an American fashion designer. In 1957 he became the first African American designer to run a design studio on Seventh Avenue in the Garment District in New York City.
Arthur McKinnon Brown (November 9, 1867 – December 4, 1939), also known as Arthur McKimmon Brown, was an American physician. In the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Brown was one of the earliest African American physicians, and the first African American…
Arthur Chukwuezugo Okonkwo (born 9 September 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Charlton Athletic on loan from EFL Championship club Wrexham. Born in England, he plays for the Nigeria national team.
Arthur Paul Bedou (July 6, 1882 – July 2, 1966) was an African-American photographer based in New Orleans. Bedou was, for a time, the personal photographer of Booker T. Washington, and documented the last decade of Washington's life. He also documented…
Arthur Torrington CBE is a Guyanese-born community advocate and historian who is Director and co-founder of the London-based Windrush Foundation, a charity that since 1996 has been working to highlight the contributions to the UK of African and Caribbean…
Artificial pink paper flowers on green plastic stems with coiled paper-wrapped wire pieces coming off the stems. The flowers are tied with string to the bottom of the box. White stickers wrapped around the stems of the artificial flowers read "MADE IN CHINA".
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.105
A decorative floor lamp contructed to resemble a potted plant. The lighting fixture is a can lamp embedded within the faux gravel base of a large, artificial plant. The plastic plant is tall with wide variegated leaves, a thick trunk-style stem, and calla…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.101.12