The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.67.1a, 2011.174.67.1b, 2011.174.67.1c, 2011.174.67.1d, and 2011.174.67.1e. Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.67.1a-e
Grace Morris Allen Jones (7 January 1876 – 2 March 1928) was an African American educator, school founder, fundraiser, postmaster, clubwoman, reformer, and writer. As well as founding her own vocational training school in Burlington, Iowa, she was…
Grace Nichols (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was…
Grace D. O'Connell is an American biomechanical engineer known for her research on the biomechanics of the human spine, on the degeneration and regeneration of spinal tissue, and on the comparison of its properties with the spines of animals used in the…
Grace Chidozie Ononiwu CBE is a solicitor and Director General of Legal Delivery at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the UK. Since November 2025 she has been Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
A black-and-white photograph, matted and framed by brown cardboard, and laminated in plastic. The woman wears a college graduate's cap and gown. Her name, Octavia C. Long, is written on the back in pencil.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.79.10
A color portrait photograph of Delta Air Lines stewardess training graduate Casey Grant, captured on February 1, 1971. Captured seated in studio against a pale background, Casey Grant poses in a quarter-turn to the viewer. She wears studded earrings, a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.50.24.1
A black-and-white, full-length portrait photograph of Delta Air Lines' first African American stewardess, Patricia Grace Murphy, upon her graduation from stewardess training in August 1966. Captured in front of a drawn curtain, Patricia Grace Murphy poses…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.50.24.2
A graduation program for the Homer G. Phillips Hospital School of Nursing. The event was held on Friday, September 5, 1947 at Stowe Teachers College in Saint Louis, Missouri. The program is a single sheet of paper that was previously folded in half on a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.90.6
Grady Diploma "Dip" Orange (March 22, 1900 – September 21, 1946) was an American professional baseball infielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1925 to 1931, playing with the Birmingham Black Barons, Kansas City Monarchs, Cleveland Tigers, and…
Grand Séminaire de Côte d'Ivoire"[,] B.P. 4 - ANYAMA - R.C.I.; Reprod. Interdite; Imprimé en France; LYONCOLOR [logo]; 68/27, Published by Missions Africaines.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-0018
Stanley Grant Holloway (born November 19, 1997) is an American professional hurdler and sprinter. He is the 2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist in the 110 meters hurdles and the third-fastest man in history at the event with a personal best of 12.81 seconds.…
Grant Parker (born 16 March 1967) is a South African-born associate professor of classics at Stanford University in the United States. Parker's principal research interests are Imperial Latin Literature, the portrayal of Egypt and India in the Roman Empire…
A woodcut print of Graves Hall at Moorehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. The print depicts townhouse style buildings. Two stairways are leading into doorways at the bottom center of the print. The building on the right has a balcony at the top. Three…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.239.20.5
Gray C. Selby (born c. 1853) was a farmer, teacher, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Marshall County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. He served with Confederate Army veteran, teacher, lawyer,…
A two-part educational film with the title Great Expectations. It consists of two (2) reels of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound. Part one opens with Clifton Fadiman providing contextual narration and discussing "the prison" as a major theme that…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.111.1ab
Green Pinckney Russell (1861/1863–1939), was an American teacher, principal, school district supervisor, and college president. He was the first licensed African-American teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. Russell was the first "Supervisor of Negro Schools"…
Green Polonius Hamilton (1867–1932) was an American educator, principal, and author who was prominent in the African-American community of Memphis, Tennessee. Hamilton was born in Memphis and graduated from LeMoyne Normal Institute in 1882. He taught and…
Greene E. Evans (September 19, 1848 – October 1, 1914) was a porter, groundskeeper, laborer, deputy wharf-master, city councilman, census enumerator, mail agent, teacher, and state legislator in Tennessee. He was born in Tennessee, and enslaved early in…
