Lavabo towels made of white linen with a cross embroidered in the center of the towel using red thread and a cross stitch. The rectangular towels are hemmed around all four edges with machine stitching. Both towels .1 and .2 are the same.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.205.1.13.1-.2
Lavenski Roy "Vence" Smith (born 1958) is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2002, serving as chief judge from 2017 to 2024. He previously served as an associate justice of the…
LaVertha Gotier (October 20, 1935 – August 8, 2023) was an American politician who served as mayor of Worland, Wyoming from 2001 to 2004. She was the first African American elected as mayor in the state of Wyoming.
Lavinia Masters is an American advocate for survivors of sexual assault and rape. She is the namesake of the Lavinia Masters Act, passed in Texas in 2019. She was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 2023.
LaVon Bracy Davis is an American attorney and politician who has served in Florida Senate representing the 15th district since 2025. She previously served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 40th district from 2022 to 2025. She is…
Lavora Barnes (born 1964/1965) is an American political executive who served as the chair of the Michigan Democratic Party from 2019 to 2025. She is the first African-American woman elected to be the position and the second woman.
Lawrence A. Oxley (1887–1973) was one among 45 prominent black community leaders appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to what was called his Black Cabinet, positions in numerous executive agencies and to serve as advisers during his administration.…
Lawrence Aaron Nixon (February 9, 1883 – March 6, 1966) was a medical doctor in El Paso, Texas who twice fought state election laws barring African-Americans from voting in Democratic Party primaries in Texas all the way to the United States Supreme Court.…
Lawrence Allen Jr. (born 1959) is an American politician and educator who served on the Texas State Board of Education from 2005 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of Texas state legislator Alma Allen, who preceded him on the board.
Lawrence Billy Jones III (born December 10, 1992) is an American libertarian political commentator, author and a current co-host of the weekday edition of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. He served as host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country from 2022 to…
Lawrence Cain (c. 1844–1884) was a lawyer, state representative, state senator, and public official in various offices during the Reconstruction era. Owned as a slave by Zachariah W. Carwile during his youth, he served as a body servant of Confederate Army…
Lawrence C. Crute (died 1930) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1873 representing Chicot County. He is listed in the Arkansas State Land Records in June 1871.
Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics, and race.
The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.5.1a and 2011.174.5.1b. Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.5.1ab
Lawrence Harrison Hamlar, also known as L.H. Hamlar or Larry Hamlar (November 27, 1921 – December 31, 2003) was a prominent African-American civic leader, businessman, and philanthropist in Roanoke, Virginia. Hamlar was the first African-American to serve…
Lawrence Hoo (born January 17, 1969) is a poet, educator, and activist residing in Bristol. He is a published author of many books of poetry including Inner City Tales in 2006, HOOSTORY in 2011, and CARGO in 2019.
Lawrence S. Speed was a farmer and state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was one of five African Americans who represented Bullock County in those years. He was also a Union League organizer in Bullock County. Speed was enslaved…
Lawrence W. Overton (born c. 1848) was a state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Kentucky. He represented Noxubee County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1876. Hampton L. Jarnagin and Marshall McNeese were his fellow representatives…
Lawrence Webb is an academic administrator and former politician from Springfield, Virginia. He was elected in 2008 to the Falls Church City Council, becoming the first openly gay, African-American elected official in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He ran…
An 8vo, 509 page complete printing of the laws passed by the Mississippi legislature October - December 1865. The volume has a light blue cover with printed label reading [MISSISSIPPI / LAWS / OCT. - DEC. 1865] at center. The title page is missing.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.10
Lawson Andrew Scruggs (January 15, 1857 – December 1, 1914) was a physician in North Carolina who was active in politics and civil rights. He was African American. In 1893, he published a volume of biographies of African-American Women, Women of Distinction.
Lawson Steele was a state legislator in Alabama, United States, during the Reconstruction era. He represented Montgomery County, Alabama. He was a leader in the A.M.E. Church. In 1870, he had substantial and was one of the wealthier African American…
