A letter written by John Moody to his parents. The six-page letter is handwritten in red ink on off-white paper. The first page has the date in the upper right corner [May 27, 1961] and begins “Dear Mother + Dad: I suppose you have been reading the papers…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.235a-f
A letter written by John Stagenwalt, a 1st U.S. Infantry soldier stationed at New Orleans during its occupation by the Union Army. Written in brown ink on one sheet of lined wove paper folded to form four pages, the letter is addressed to John Sheaffer, of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.22.4
A letterwritten by John Stagenwalt, a 1st U.S. Infantry soldier stationed at New Orleans during its occupation by the Union Army. Written in brown ink on both sides of a single sheet of wove paper with a torn edge, the letter is addressed to John Sheaffer,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.22.5
Letter written to Robert Bell from the Freedmen's Bureau. The one-page handwritten letter to Robert Bell from the Freedmen's bureau includes a dispute with a woman identified as "Eliza." The top proper left side of the front of the letter has black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.93
This blank stationery page has the words: [PAN AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANIZATION / IN THE AMERICAS INC.] typed across the front. The top left corner has a drawing of the outline of Africa with the black power fist in the center. Text reading: [UHURU NA UMOJA /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.27.46
White letterhead with a black rectangle at the top margin. On the left side of the rectangle is a small black and white graphic of Malcolm X contained within a white circle bound inside a black box. The right of the graphic is black text [MALCOM…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.7.1-2
Levar Marcus Stoney (born March 20, 1981) is an American politician who served as the 80th mayor of Richmond, Virginia, from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014…
Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins…
This black and white image depicts a young man shown from the chest up. He wears a dark jacket, with a button down striped shirt and a white shirt layered underneath. Holding an upright American flag, he gazes straight ahead, past the photographer. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.76
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and…
Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) escaped slavery in Kentucky with his family and reached Canada. He established a school for African Americans before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. There he became an abolitionist, lecturer, businessman,…
Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859) was an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed.
Leyla Hussein (Somali: Leyla Xuseen) is a Somali-born British psychotherapist and social activist. She is the founder of Dahlia project, one of the co-founders of the Daughters of Eve non-profit organisation and a Chief Executive of Hawa's Haven. In 2020,…
Leyna Bloom is an American actress, model, dancer, and activist. She has attracted press as a trailblazer for transgender performers in the entertainment and fashion industries. In 2019, Bloom made her feature film acting debut in Port Authority, which…
Lez Edmond (May 9, 1932 - April 2017) was an American philosopher, social activist, civil rights journalist, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement (1865–1896).
Lia Beth Epperson (born 1971 or 1972) is an American civil rights lawyer and professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. She previously served as the senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at the law school. Epperson…
This poster shows a central figure silhouetted in black holding a rifle in one hand. Their other hand is raised towards the sky with a clenched fist. The figure stands on a red map of Puerto Rico. The heading on the poster reads: [LIBERATE PUERTO RICO…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.23
A paperback pamphlet version speech James Forman gave at the Western Regional Black Youth Conference in Los Angeles on November 23, 1967: "Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing.” Printed in black ink on white paper, the pamphlet has fifteen (15) pages…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.43.2
Blue print on yellowed paper. At center, a drawing of a bus. The text reads, "RIDE WITH THE LIBERATOR IN THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28, 1963.".
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.45.5
Liberator magazine featuring a black and white photograph of James Forman. Forman is seen from the elbows up, wearing a dark suit jacket, white shirt, and black patterned tie. His PR arm is bent and in his hand he holds a white handkerchief. Foreman is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.19
Liberator magazine featuring a black and white photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking into microphones. King stands in front of a small group of men who are foregrounded in front of a cityscape; tall buildings stand in the distance. At the top of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.18
Liberator magazine featuring a black and white photograph of H. Rap Brown on the left side of the cover. Brown is seen seated at a table looking down at the papers resting on the table. Brown's PR arm is resting on the table top with his hand near his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.20
The Liberian Order of African Redemption Grand Commander badge awarded to Ambassador William Beverly Carter, Jr. by Liberian President William Richard Tolbert Jr. It is a two (2) piece, double-sided pendant medal; a five-pointed star suspended from a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2019.45.1.3.1
