A carpet sample of the St. George design from Malene Barnett. The carpet sample is tan with a black design. The design consists of two rows of black hourglass shaped lines with horizontal lines going through them. Inside of the hourglass shapes are two…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.18.3
Carrie A. Tuggle (May 28, 1858 – November 5, 1924) was an American educator, philanthropist, and social activist. After emancipation, she sought for equality in education, and the right to exercise voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama. She established…
Carrie Allen McCray (October 4, 1913 – July 25, 2008) was an African-American writer. She was from Lynchburg Virginia and became the first board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Workshop.
Carrie Coleman Robinson (April 21, 1906 - May 25, 2008) was an African American educator and librarian. Robinson was a founding trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation and a founder of the Alabama Association of School Librarians.
Carrie E. Bullock (c. 1887 – December 31, 1962) was an American nurse. She served as the president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) and founded their official newsletter.
Carrie Beatrice Halsell Ward (1903–1989) is the first known African American to graduate from a public university in the state of Oregon. She graduated in 1926, with a Bachelor of Science in Business from Oregon State University.
Carolina Mercer Langston (January 18, 1873 – June 3, 1938) was an American writer and actress. She was the mother of poet, playwright and social activist Langston Hughes.
The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.56.1a, 2011.174.56.1b, 2011.174.56.1c, 2011.174.56.1d, 2011.174.56.1e, 2011.174.56.1f, 2011.174.56.1g, 2011.174.56.1h, and 2011.174.56.1i. Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.56.1a-i
Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen…
Carrie Mae Meek (née Pittman; April 29, 1926 – November 28, 2021) was an American politician and educator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 17th congressional district from 1993 to 2003. She was the first African American elected to…
Carrie Saxon Perry (August 30, 1931 – November 22, 2018) was an American politician from Connecticut. She was notable as the first African American woman to be elected mayor of a major New England city – Hartford, Connecticut – in 1987. She served three…
A black-and-white photograph of blues and jazz singer Carrie Smith performing at a concert in Charlotte, NC. Smith is photographed from a low angle and to the left. Her hands are positioned on either side of the mic stand she sings into. Her shoulders are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.164.146
Carrie Whalon (1870–1927) was an African-American and Hoosier suffrage leader and the first President of the First Colored Women's Franchise League/First Colored Woman's Suffrage Club in Indianapolis. Her last name was also spelled as Whallon and Whalen in…
Caroline "Carrie" M. Williams (née Edwards) (c. 1866 – January 22, 1930) was an African American educator in West Virginia in the United States. Williams fought and won a significant 1898 civil rights case, Williams v.
Carrie Williams Clifford (September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio – November 10, 1934) was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.
Carroll Burns Williams Jr. (September 24, 1929 – March 1, 2024) was an American research forester and entomologist. He was the first African American scientist hired by the United States Forest Service and the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in…
Carroll Parrott Blue (August 23, 1943 – December 11, 2019) was an American filmmaker, director and author. Based in Houston, Texas, she was part of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. She was noted for her documentary film and interactive multimedia works,…
