This is a timeline poster about violence and killings against Black Panther members by the police. This rectangular poster consists of rows of squares that mark the days of each month. Various squares are blacked out or filled with color or patterns. These…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.13
51-page booklet of the Secretary of War’s report to the 40th US Congress. The string bound booklet features the Secretary of War’s report to the 40th United States Congress 2nd Session in the House of Representatives. The report includes freedmen's affairs…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.96
This is an exhibition brochure for the exhibition “Art as Witness: Political Graphics.” The front cover features a print designed by Gail Anderson. It has a white background with small, dense black text as a backdrop to large red text that reads “Art / as…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.15
An edition of a speech by Congressman Francis P. Blair printed in black ink on off-white wove paper in a center bound booklet. The cover page reads: [Extension of the Ku Klux Act. / SPEECH / OF / HON. FRANCIS P. BLAIR, / OF MISSOURI, / DELIVERED / IN THE…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.42.9ab
A rectangular pamphlet off-white paper front covers, white interior pages with black type, a green-dyed fore edge, and sewn through the fold. The front cover has the title centered and written in a font with varying sizes that reads [[EXTRAC?]TS / FROM THE…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.22.2
This is a pink cloth and lace eye mask belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. The mask consists of pink silky material on the front and pink velvet material in the back, edged with white lace. It is in the shape of a narrow cat’s eye mask. Two closed eyelids…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.55
This black-and-white photograph depicts two young men, sitting with their knees drawn up and their arms resting on their knees. The left hand figure wears a dark baseball cap sideways. Both wear dark jackets. The right hand figure holds a rolled up paper…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.23
Ezekiel Gillespie (May 31, 1818 – March 31, 1892) was an African-American civil rights and community leader who won a landmark case securing voting rights in Wisconsin. Gillespie was born a slave in Canton, Mississippi or Greene County, Tennessee, probably…
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's…
Ezola Broussard Foster (August 9, 1938 – May 22, 2018) was an American conservative political activist, writer, and politician. She was president of the interest group Black Americans for Family Values, author of the book What's Right for All Americans,…
F. Dora Wade was an American teacher and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Yazoo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He served as marshal of Yazoo City in 1870 and was documented as a teacher in that year's census. He was born…
F. Grant Gilmore was a playwright, author, and producer in the United States. He corresponded with Crisis magazine in 1929 about publishing one of his stories. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote back that the publication could not "handle" the story. He worked at the…
F. H. Fyall was a state Representative in the U.S. state of Georgia during the Reconstruction era. He was one of the Original 33 African Americans elected as legislators in Georgia. He was owned as a slave earlier in his life. His eligibility to hold…
Fortune Leon Harris (October 26, 1888 – November 2, 1973) was an American civil rights leader and Republican Party politician from New Jersey. He was the first African American elected to a county wide office in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
A white face mask designed and worn by LaShawn Kenley on June 6, 2020, in Washington, DC during a Black Lives Matter protest of the killing of George Floyd. The mask is made of cotton fabric that has two horizontal pleats sewn to each side of the mask. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.49.2
A black-and-white digital image of a crowd of men, women, and children, with an older woman and child in the center. Everyone in the image is facing to the right of the image. The woman, at the center of the image, is wearing a light colored overcoat, dark…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.42
A black-and-white digital image a crowd of men, women, and children facing the viewer. In the center of the image, a woman stands with her head tilted to the left wearing a kerchief around her head, a turtleneck, and dark leather jacket. In the front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.43
This back and white digital image depicts a small boy sitting on the shoulders of an adult man. The boy wears a short sleeves striped shirt over a long sleeve black shirt and jeans. He rests his left hand on top of the man's head, and rests his chin on his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.44
This is a black fabric fascinator (.1) with a veil and rhinestone decoration in a Marshall Field’s box with lid (.2ab). The fascinator (.1) is constructed of stiff black fabric that is loosely pleated and attached to a black headband. The black wide-spaced…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.13.1-.2ab
A welded metal sculpture consisting of a top section in the form of an abstracted bull’s head, mounted atop a single, bent steel pillar. The figural portion is composed of chrome or a chrome-plated metal and has six appendages emanating from a bisected…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.18
A purple and white double-print poster issued by Fair Fight Action organization. The rectangular poster has a gradient purple background with white text reading [FAIR FIGHT ACTION / FREE & FAIR / ELECTIONS / for all / #ABRAMSADDRESS]. There is a CWA print…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.7.18
Faisal Ahmed Hassan is a Canadian politician, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 until his defeat in the 2022 Ontario general election. He represented the riding of York South—Weston as a member of the Ontario New Democratic…
Faith Nolan (born 1957) is a Canadian social activist, folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
