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Politics & Public Life

Victor Rochon

1843–1892

Victor Rochon (March 23, 1843 - November 15, 1892) was a merchant, public official, and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives representing St. Martin Parish from 1872 to 1874 and briefly in 1875 and from 1888 to…

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Civil Rights & Community

Victoria Clay Haley

Born 1877

Victoria Clay Haley (January 1, 1877 – after 1940), later Victoria Clay Roland, was an American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser based in St. Louis, Missouri and later in Chicago.

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Business

Victoria Hernández

1897–1998

Victoria Hernández (March 23, 1897 – April 11, 1998) was an Afro-Puerto Rican music entrepreneur. Though a talented musician, she devoted her career to the business aspects of the music industry. In 1927, she opened the first Latin music store in New York…

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Biography & Culture

Victoria Omobuwajo

1993–

Victoria Omobuwajo (born 7 April 1993) is a British-Nigerian businesswoman and television personality, who won the first season of the Gordon Ramsay reality television series broadcast on BBC One, Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars.

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Historical photographs & visual records

View of the desert on the banks of Niger River

2000-02-01

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View of the desert on the banks of Niger River. Original Carousel number, 12, slide number, 46.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1447
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Village on banks of Niger River

2000-02-01

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Village on banks of Niger River. Original Carousel number, 12, slide number, 51.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1452
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Village settlement on Niger River Bank

2000-02-01

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Village settlement on Niger River Bank. Original Carousel number, 12, slide number, 84.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1485
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Politics & Public Life

Vincent Orange

1957–

Vincent Bernard Orange Sr. (born April 11, 1957) is an American former politician from Washington, D.C.. A lawyer and a certified public accountant, Orange represented Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007, and was an at-large…

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Civil Rights

Viola Desmond

1914–1965

In 1946, businesswoman Viola Desmond refused to leave a whites-only section of a New Glasgow cinema. Her arrest and conviction helped energize Canada’s civil-rights movement.

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Business & Enterprise

Violet T. Lewis

1897–1968

Violet T. Lewis (May 27, 1897 – March 23, 1968) was an American businesswoman and educator who founded the Lewis College of Business in 1928, the only historically black college in Michigan.

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Biography & Culture

Violette Neatley Anderson

1882–1937

Violette Neatley Anderson (July 16, 1882 – December 24, 1937) became the first African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. She was one of the most prominent advocates of a landmark piece of legislation…

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Architecture

Virgil Abloh

1980–2021

Virgil Abloh (; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the…

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Business & Enterprise

Virginia Ali

1933–

Virginia Ali (née Rollins; born December 17, 1933) is an American business owner known for co-founding Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C.

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Business & Enterprise

Vivian Hunt

1967–

Dame Vivian Yvonne Hunt (born July 1967) is a business executive. She previously served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group.

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Business & Enterprise

Vivian Kaye

1978–

Vivian Kaye is a Ghanaian-Canadian entrepreneur, and owner of the hair extension brand KinkyCurlyYaki.

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Historical photographs & documents

VoiceStream: Service agreement

n.d.

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Cataloged as “VoiceStream: Service agreement” (Text).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.A2013.149.3, Item 5
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Historical photographs & documents

Volume 1 (199)

Apr. 1867–June 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 1 (199)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.3.23.1
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Volume 1 (385)

Mar.–Dec. 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 1 (385)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.43.16.1
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Volume 1 (483)

May 1867–July 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 1 (483)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.70.4.1
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Volume 2 (104)

No date

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Cataloged as “Volume 2 (104)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1026, Item 4.5.2.2
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Volume 2 (200)

June–Dec. 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 2 (200)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.3.23.2
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Volume 2 (449)

Apr. 1867–Mar. 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 2 (449)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.43.16.2
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Volume 2 (484)

May 1867–Sept. 1868

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Cataloged as “Volume 2 (484)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 5.70.4.2
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