A black-and-white digital image portrait of a young boy with Father Dominic Orsini in the background. The boy is featured in profile facing the right of the image. He is wearing an open jacket with the collar turned up at the back. Father Orsini is in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.49
This black-and-white photograph depicts a man holding a little boy on his right shoulder. The little boy, wearing a zipped-up sweatshirt with the hood up, jeans, and button pin, looks directly at the viewer and drapes his left arm around the man's head.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.42
Fatima Jamal is an American filmmaker, model, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. A Black transgender woman who goes by the moniker "Fat Femme," Jamal is also an activist who speaks and makes art about social issues including racism, body positivity, and…
Fatima Jibrell (Somali: Fadumo Jibriil, Arabic: فاطمة جبريل; born December 30, 1947) is a Somali-American environmental activist. She was the co-founder and executive director of the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization (now Adeso),…
Fay E. Allen (January 4, 1887 – October 17, 1974) was the first ever African American to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Education. She served two terms between 1939 and 1943. After she left the board, she continued to be politically active until her death.
Fay D. Bellamy Powell (May 1, 1938 – January 5, 2013) was an African-American civil rights activist. Known for her involvement in many organizations tracing the movements of the civil rights movement, Bellamy Powell began her career in the United States…
Faya Ora Rose Touré, born Rose M. Gaines, (born May 20, 1945) is an American civil rights activist and lawyer who was Alabama’s first black woman judge. Henry Sanders is her husband.
Faye Wattleton (born Alyce Faye Wattleton; 8 July 1943) is an American reproductive rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret…
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanted poster for Angela Yvonne Davis, dated August 1970. The poster features two pictures of Davis as well as descriptive information about her physical features. The poster also details information about why she is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.146
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanted poster for Angela Yvonne Davis. The poster features two pictures of Davis as well as descriptive information about her physical features. The poster also details information about why she is wanted by the FBI.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.60.8
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Wanted poster depicting four mug shot photos of the Black Panther leader, Eldridge Cleaver. Text at the top reads: [Wanted / By The / FBI / Interstate Flight - Assault With Intent To Commit Murder / Leroy Eldridge…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.117.12
A tri-fold Barack Obama brochure, in Spanish and English. The front features a black and white picture of Barack, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama. Light blue and white text above the image on a blue background reads [FE EN EL / SUEÑO AMERICANO / FAITH IN…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.42.1
A tri-fold Barack Obama brochure, in Spanish and in English. The front features a black and white picture of Barack, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama. Light blue and white text above the image on a blue background reads [FE EN EL / SUEÑO AMERICANO / FAITH…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.42.2
Felipe Luciano (born 1947, East Harlem, New York City) is a poet, community activist, journalist, media personality, and politician. He is of Afro-Puerto Rican heritage. He is known for his significant involvement in both the Young Lords Party and The Last…
Felix C. Antoine (c. 1839 – 1917) was a Louisiana state legislator during the Reconstruction era. During the Civil War, he served as a second lieutenant in the 7th Louisiana Regiment Infantry in the Union Army.
Felix Holbrook was a Black activist born in Africa but lived in Boston and Rhode Island during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. A slave for more than 25 years, he was a staunch advocate of abolitionism. He married his wife, Susannah in 1772, when he…
A physician and planters' union leader, Houphouët-Boigny led his country from independence in 1960 until his death and became a major figure in West African politics.
Felix L. Cory was a teacher and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Adams County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1884 to 1886. Chas. D. Foules served with him from the county.
Félix Rafael "Felle" Delgado (March 31, 1909 – June 13, 2001) was a Puerto Rican Negro leagues baseball player. He was born in Coamo City, Puerto Rico. Delgado played for the New York Cubans, and later for the San Juan Senators. His career lasted from 1933…
Felmon Devoner Motley (March 18, 1921 – August 28, 2004) was an American football player and civil rights advocate. He played fullback and lineman for the Alabama A&M Bulldogs and the Delaware State Hornets. He was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum…
Felton James "Tony" Earls III (January 20, 1942 – September 5, 2026) was an American child psychiatrist and epidemiologist, currently Professor of Social Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Human Behavior and Development, Emeritus,…
Felton Turner (April 2, 1933 – April 23, 2006) was an African-American man whose survival from a vicious attack on March 7, 1960, helped galvanize the city of Houston, Texas during the Civil Rights Movement.
