This is a green beaded evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. The bag is a rectangular clutch with a flap over the opening. The flap closes with a magnetic snap closure. The exterior of the bag is covered in tiny dark green beads sewn into swirling…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.56
This is a green beaded evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. The bag is a square purse with a short, beaded handle. It has a hinged opening. The flap closes with a metal snap closure. The exterior of the bag is covered in tiny dark green beads sewn…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.62
A dark chartreuse green damask stole used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley. The facing side of the stole is made from dark chartreuse green silk damask with a styled floral and fruit vine design with sheep laying amongst the foliage. The reverse of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.205.4
Green I. Currin (October 20, 1842 or 1844 – October 21, 1918) was the first African American to serve in the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature that existed before statehood in 1907. He was the author of the Oklahoma Territory's first civil rights…
Green Hill Jones (December 24, 1842 - November 12, 1924) was a state legislator and Baptist minister in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for Chicot County in 1885 and 1889, and he was a Republican. Jones was born in Tennessee…
Green T. Johnston was a state legislator who represented Dallas County, Alabama, during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 from Dallas County. Dallas County was part of Alabama's "Black Belt" counties.…
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…
Greene Shadrach Washington Lewis was a leader among African Americans and a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era 1868–1876. He represented Perry County, Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser quoted him appealing for equal rights for…
A greeting card repurposed to house business cards and notes by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The greeting card has been folded in half to act as a case housing notes, documents, phone lists, and business cards. The front of the card…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2018.36.1.4.3
Gregory Christophe Fergus (born May 31, 1969) is a Canadian politician who served as the 39th speaker of the House of Commons from October 3, 2023 to May 26, 2025. He is the member of Parliament (MP) for Hull—Aylmer. A member of the Liberal Party, Fergus…
Gregory Allen Howard (January 28, 1952 – January 27, 2023) was an American journalist, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter. He is best known for composing the screenplay to Disney's award-winning movie Remember the Titans, a film chronicling the real…
Gregory Kellam Scott (July 30, 1948 – March 31, 2021) was an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1993 to 2000. Scott received his J.D. from Indiana University. He moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1977 to take a position with the U.S.…
Gregory Scott Tony (born 1978) is an American law enforcement officer and serving since 2019 as the 17th Sheriff of Broward County, Florida. Tony was initially appointed sheriff in 2019 by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, to fill a vacancy. In November 2020,…
A grey, glazed earthenware vase with hand painted dark gray markings. The vase is squat and rounded. It has a band of alternating diagonal lines at the shoulder, and an abstract design on the body. The lip is small and tapers inwards to the opening. There…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.44
Grey sweat shirt (.1) and sweat pants (.2) worn by Albert Woodfox while incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center. The sweat shirt (.1) is made from grey polyester and cotton blend knit fabric. It has a ribbed crew neck, full-length sleeves with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.34.1-.2
Griffin Lotson (born June 20, 1954) is an African-American historian, born in Crescent, Georgia. He is a seventh-generation Gullah Geechee. He serves as a councilman and the mayor pro-tem in Darien, Georgia.
The Griffin Sisters, Emma (1874–1918) and Mabel (1877–1918) Griffin, were American vaudeville performers in the late 1800s and early 1900s who became entrepreneurs and social activists and opened one of the first booking agencies owned by Black women. They…
A black-and-white photograph print of the photographer, H.C. Anderson, with others in front of the U.S. Capitol building, captured while Congress debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The group stands in a semi-circle in the foreground with the U.S.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.3.2
A black-and-white photograph print of the photographer, H.C. Anderson, with others in front of the U.S. Capitol building, captured while Congress debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The group stands in the foreground with the U.S. Capitol behind them.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.3.3
The men are all dressed in Masonic costume; their hats read "Bethel Lodge" above the freemason emblem of square and compass. Their individual names or initials are also on their hats. Eight stand in the image's middleground while five sit in the foreground.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.3.1
A black-and-white film negative featuring the image of a group of men posed in front of a vehicle with a sign reading, " Greatest Colored Show on Earth / Rabbit Foot Minstrels ." Most of the men wear t-shirts reading " Rabbit Foot Show " on the front.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.21.76.B
