The oral history consists of 2016.129.15.1a and 2016.129.15.2a: two versions (unedited, and edited) of a single digital video recording. General Colin Powell was interviewed as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. General Powell donated…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.129.15.1a-.2a
A booklet printing of the court martial proceedings against Second Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper of the U.S. 10th Cavalry. The five page booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper, with taped binding at the left. Printed at the top left of the first…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.155.16
Geneviéve LaChelle Jones-Wright is an American attorney and activist who served as a San Diego County public defender from 2006 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she was an unsuccessful candidate for San Diego County District Attorney in 2018 and…
A screen print in black ink on light brown paper. Depicted in the negative space of the light brown paper is a line illustration of a figure seated with head bent, elbows on knees, and a syringe in their proper left hand. At center, their belt buckle reads…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.4
Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an American educator, social activist and author. Since 1990, Canada has been president of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization that states its goal is to increase high school and…
George A. Myers (March 5, 1859 – January 17, 1930) was an American barber, state legislator, and political organizer in Ohio. He was born in Baltimore to Isaac Myers and Emma V. née Morgan Meyers. He moved to Cleveland in 1879.
George A. G. Anderson MLA (born 1990 or 1991) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the electoral district of Nanaimo-Lantzville since 2024. He is a member of the…
George Benjamin Murphy Jr. (1906–1986) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, publicist, advertiser, and civil rights leader in Maryland and Washington, D.C. He was born into a prominent Black family which published the Baltimore Afro-American and…
George B. Willis (died June 1900) was a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Craven County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870. Richard Tucker and Edward R. Dudley were fellow African American state legislators from New…
George Bell (c. 1761–1843) was an American activist for the education rights of African Americans. In 1807, he co-founded the Bell School, the first school for African Americans in Washington, D.C.
George Bonga (August 20, 1802 – 1874) was a fur trader, entrepreneur and interpreter for the U.S. government, who was of Ojibwe and African descent, fluent in French, Ojibwemowin and English. At the age of eighteen, he served as an interpreter for Governor…
George Bundy Smith (April 7, 1937 – August 5, 2017) was a lawyer and judge in New York State. While he was a law student at Yale University, he participated in the Freedom Ride from Atlanta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama.
George C. Smith was a superintendent of education and state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Ohio. He represented Coahoma County in the Mississippi Senate from 1874 to 1875. He was a Republican. His account of political intimidation and violence…
George Caldwell Granberry was a state legislator, postmaster, and teacher in Mississippi. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives during the 1882 session, representing Hinds county. He was a member of the Committee on Propositions and…
George Carroll (January 6, 1922 – January 14, 2016) was an American lawyer and civic figure, based in Contra Costa County, California. He served as the first black lawyer as well as the first African American to be elected to city council in Richmond. He…
George Harold Clements (January 26, 1932 – November 25, 2019) was an African-American Catholic priest who in 1981 became the first Catholic priest in the Chicago area to adopt a child. He was also instrumental in the Black Catholic Movement, which sought…
George Cleveland Hall (22 February 1864, Ypsilanti, – 17 June 1930, Chicago) was an American physician who became a prominent humanitarian activist. He headed the Urban League in Chicago of which he went on to become vice-president. In 1915 he was a…
Judge George William Crockett III served on the Detroit Recorder's Court (later the Wayne County Circuit Court) from 1976 until 2003. He was known for presiding over the 1993 Malice Green case, and for his father, George Crockett Jr., an influential civil…
George William Crockett Jr. (August 10, 1909 – September 7, 1997) was an African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman from the U.S. state of Michigan. He also served as a national vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild and co-founded what is…
George Cushingberry Jr. (born January 6, 1953) is an American politician from Michigan. Cushingberry was a member of the Detroit City Council and a member of Michigan House of Representatives.
George Dawson (January 19, 1898 – July 5, 2001) was called "America's favorite poster child for literacy" after learning to read at the age of 98. His life story, Life Is So Good, was published in 2000. A Texas middle school was named in his honor in 2002;…
George DeBaptiste (c. 1815 – February 22, 1875) was an African-American conductor on the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana and Detroit, Michigan. Born free in Virginia, he moved as a young man to the free state of Indiana. In 1840, he served as…
George E. Trower (1855 – ?) was a minister and state legislator in Arkansas. In 1886 the Republican assembly nominated Trower, who was residing in Morrilton, Arkansas, as their candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives. Trower was the only black…
George Edward Tait (December 29, 1943 – November 5, 2017) was an American poet, writer, educator, storyteller, journalist, activist, historian, public speaker, tutor, bandleader, musician, and performer. He was known as the Poet Laureate of Harlem, and a…
