A black-and-white film negative featuring the image ofthe "All-Merit Award" celebration at Greenville City Hall. The image is taken from across the street and shows a marching band, journalists, police, and spectators watching presenters on the steps of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.73.2
Imagene Bigham Stewart (September 23, 1942 – May 30, 2012) was an American minister and activist. She ran the House of Imagene Shelter and Women's Center in Washington, D.C.
Imani Barbarin (born March 1990) is an American writer, public speaker, and disability rights activist who also goes by the username Crutches and Spice. She is active on her website and on social media, such as Instagram, Twitter (X) and TikTok.
Imani Barnes is an American politician from the Georgia Democratic Party who serves as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing District 86.
Imani Rupert-Gordon (born April 16, 1979) is the executive director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (formerly known as the National Center for Lesbian Rights) in San Francisco, California. Rupert-Gordon was born in Bedford Heights, Ohio, and grew…
Imara Jones is an American political journalist and transgender activist who is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform journalism, personal storytelling and narrative project. She was also the host of The Last Sip, a weekly, half-hour news show…
Imhotep Gary Byrd (born March 14, 1949) is an American, New York City–based radio talk-show host and executive producer, radio DJ, poet, songwriter, music recording artist and producer, rapper, writer and community activist. Byrd began his career in…
A pamphlet written by James W. Ford on imperialism in Africa. The cover features black print on yellowed paper. At center, a black and white photograph of James W. Ford. The interior consists of fifteen pages of text. The back cover features other pamphlet…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.32
A black-and-white photograph of a crowd of people dressed in suits, or funeral attire, walking in a procession through the streets of Jackson, Mississippi.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.67.1
A softcover copy of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker. The softcover book has an adhesive binding. The book has a purple and white front cover with brown and black type and a purple-and-white headshot of Walker on the front jacket. Walker…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.13
A first edition hardback copy of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker. The book has a purple and white paper dust jacket with black type and a purple-and-white headshot of Walker on the front jacket. Walker looks at the viewer, smiling. She…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.38.2
This black and white linocut depicts Sojourner Truth. Shown from the waist up, she stands behind a lectern with an open book, perhaps a Bible, on top. She wears a dark striped dress with a light colored neckline or scarf around her neck. She has a light…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.21.6
Inaya Folarin Iman (born 8 November 1996) is a British journalist, commentator, a panelist on the BBC Radio show Moral Maze, and television presenter who has presented for GB News. She is also the director and founder of the Equiano Project (named after…
When artist Keven Cole was 18, his grandfather showed him a tree in his Tarry, Arkansas, neighborhood from which African American men were routinely lynched for attempting to vote. His grandfather added that when these men were killed, their neckties would…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.12
India B. Walton (née Suttles; born June 14, 1982) is an American political activist and nurse. In 2021, she defeated incumbent Byron Brown in the Democratic Party primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York, before losing to Brown in the general election, where…
Indiana Little (1897–1970) was an activist for the voting rights of Black Americans. She is most well known for leading a large march to the voting registrar's office in Birmingham, Alabama on Monday, January 18, 1926. The numbers at the march range from…
This is a black-and-white photograph of a middle aged man seated on a concrete wall by a body of water. He is wearing a flat topped cap and shirtsleeves. Around his neck is a black camera case and a homemade sign that reads "INDICT / FUHRMAN / FOR…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.7
