A single-sided Spanish-language document printed in black ink. The heading reads [BARACK OBAMA / SOBRE TEMAS LATINOS] Beneath this is a transparent banner with [Barack Obama lucha por la comunidad Latina.] This document details Obama’s stance on key issues…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.41.4
This is a single-sided Spanish-language document printed in black ink. The heading reads [ BARACK OBAMA / SOBRE TEMAS LATINOS] Beneath that is a transparent banner with [Barack Obama lucha por la comunidad Latina.] This document details Obama’s stance on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.56.3
Barbara Beese (; born 2 January 1946) is a British activist, writer, and former member of the British Black Panthers. She is most notable as one of the Black activists known as the Mangrove Nine, charged in 1970 with inciting a riot, following a protest…
Barbara Cheeseborough (née Bowman) (March 14, 1946 – October 24, 2013) was an American fashion model of the 1960s and 1970s, known for promoting an Afrocentric style.
Barbara DuMetz (born 1947) is an American photographer and pioneer in the field of commercial photography. She began working in Los Angeles as a commercial photographer in the 1970s, when very few women had established and maintained successful careers in…
Barbara Gomes-Beach (died 2017) was a community organizer and HIV/AIDS activist in Boston. She was the executive director of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition, a nonprofit AIDS prevention and outreach organization in Boston, until her death in 2017.…
Barbara Ann Neely (often self-stylized as BarbaraNeely; November 30, 1941 – March 2, 2020) was an African-American novelist, short story writer and activist who wrote murder mysteries. Her first novel, Blanche on the Lam (1992), introduced the protagonist…
Barbara Udoezi Nwaba (born January 18, 1989) is an American track and field athlete who represents the Santa Barbara Track Club. Nwaba is known for the pentathlon and heptathlon. She is the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field champion in the heptathlon.
Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) was a leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville,…
Barbara "Robie" Smith (1946–2015) was an American activist from Chicago known for co-founding the Affinity Community Services foundation, a support group for Black lesbians, in 1995.
Barbara Summers (September 6, 1944 – November 2014) was an American writer and educator who had also had a long and successful career as a fashion model, working for 17 years with Ford Models, one of America's top agencies. Her 1998 book, Skin Deep – the…
Barbara Francis Taylor Bowman (October 30, 1928 – November 4, 2024) was an American early childhood education expert, advocate, academic, and author. Her areas of expertise included early childhood care/education, educational equity for minority and…
Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967), is an American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer born in Brooklyn, New York. Tucker had six No. 1 hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s, and several hits in the UK.
Barbara Tyson Mosley (born 1950) is an American artist, known for her abstract landscape paintings, mix media artwork, photography, and fiber art. She is active in Louisville, Kentucky and within the Black community.
Barbara Ward Armstrong (March 24, 1940 - September 4, 2013) was an American artist who primarily worked in fabric sculptures, often called soft sculpture, and was heavily involved in artistic and musician communities throughout the United States.
A barber comb owned by Cab Calloway. The black plastic comb has a narrow shaft and teeth. The teeth on one end of the comb are thin and closely spaced together. The other end of the comb features thicker teeth that are more widely spaced. One thin tooth…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.25
A black and white photograph of a barbershop on North Patrick and Pendleton Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The photograph features three barbers working on clients in the shop. Other clients wait in the background.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.276.2.2
A sepia toned digital image of a child's feet standing on wood slates. The child's jeans are visible at the top of the image. Written below the image is “3/11/2/70 – BAREFOT BOY ON N. GREENWOOD, TULSA.”
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.67.22
Barney Burton was an American legislator in South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 and 1870. He represented Chester County, South Carolina. Burton was involved with the Chester A.M.E. Baptist church in its early…
Barney Morris (June 3, 1910 – May 24, 1962) was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues, the Mexican League, and the minor league Manitoba-Dakota League. He played in the Negro leagues in 1932, 1935–1938, and 1942–1948 for the Monroe…
