A lounge chair with a red and black-patterned vinyl cover. The chair has an oversized molded seatback in a wrap bucket shape, and a padded seat with edges that flare slightly away from the back. The seat back has a cutout portion at the lower edge where…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.101.4.3
Louvenia Dorsey Bright (November 21, 1941 – July 29, 2023) was an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1988 to 1994. She was Vermont's first Black woman legislator.
Love L. Sechrest (born October 14, 1962) is Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Columbia Theological Seminary and was previously an associate professor of the New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.…
A black-and-white digital image of children looking out windows at the Loveless Elementary School. Children are leaning out the three windows above the pediment with the sign of the brick building stating [LOVELESS SCHOOL].
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.129.81
Lovely Ann Warren (born July 1, 1977) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 69th mayor of Rochester, New York, from 2014 until her resignation in 2021. She was previously the president of the Rochester City Council. She was the first woman…
Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman (3 December 1889 – 13 January 1939) was an American political activist and functionary for the Communist International (Comintern). The first African American to attend a Comintern training school in the Soviet Union in 1924,…
A black-and-white photograph of a sign that says, "Vote Nov. 8th Pull the lever for the Black Panther and go home." The sign is in a field and a tree and wood building are in the distance on the left.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.107.7
Lutrelle Fleming "Lu" Palmer, Jr. (March 28, 1922 – September 12, 2004) was an American reporter, political activist, radio show host, and newspaper publisher in Chicago.
Lubbie Harper Jr. (born 1942) is an American lawyer and judge who was the third African American to become a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, serving from 2011 through 2012. While seconded to the court in 2008, he cast the deciding vote in Kerrigan v.
Lubertha Miller Johnson (July 22, 1906, Ackerman, Mississippi – January 6, 1996, Las, Vegas, Nevada) was an African-American nurse, civil rights campaigner and anti-poverty activist, based in Paradise Valley, Nevada. She was known as the first Black nurse…
Luci Murphy is an American singer, political activist, community organizer, and language interpreter. Since the 1960s, she has been performing political songs in musical styles such as jazz and blues. In 1987, she performed in Germany in the Festival of…
Lucie Tondreau (born 1959/1960) is an American politician and social and immigrant activist who served as the first female and the third Haitian-American mayor of North Miami, Florida
Lucien Edward Blackwell (August 1, 1931 – January 24, 2003) was an American boxer, longshoreman, and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975, Philadelphia City Council from 1976 to 1991,…
Lucien Fisher, sometimes spelled Lucian Fisher, was an American politician who served as a state legislator in Florida. He represented Leon County in the Florida House of Representatives. He served in 1875. Lucian Fisher co-signed a letter to the…
Lucile Harris Bluford (July 1, 1911 – June 13, 2003) was a journalist and opponent of segregation in America's education system, and after whom the Lucile H. Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is named.
Lucille Baldwin Holliday Brown (May 15, 1922 - August 17, 2019) was an American librarian known for being the first Black public county librarian in the state of Florida. During segregation she led a campaign for a library for Leon County's black…
Lucille M. Berrien (April 12, 1928 – May 22, 2026) was an American activist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a member of the Black Panther Party. She was the first African-American to run for mayor of Milwaukee.
Lucille Constance Gunning (February 2, 1921 – April 26, 2018), also known as Lucille Blackwood, was an African American pediatrician and medical services administrator who became a specialist in the treatment of children's cancer, the director of pediatric…
Lucille Campbell Green Randolph (April 15, 1883 – April 12, 1963) was an early graduate of Madam C. J. Walker's Lelia Beauty College, opening and running a successful salon in New York City. She was married to the civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph…
Lucille Gorham (January 18, 1931 – November 3, 2012) was a civil rights activist in Baltimore communities during the Civil Rights Movement. Born Lucille Alexander in Halifax, North Carolina, Gorham moved to Baltimore in 1934 and resided a community in East…
Lucille Boynton Skaggs Edwards (July 23, 1875-Sept 14, 1972) was a journalist in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1906, she published The Women's Aurora, making her the first black woman to publish a magazine in Nebraska. She also worked as a political organizer and…
Lucille Times (April 22, 1921 – August 16, 2021) was an American civil rights activist. She was active in the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama throughout her adult life. Times worked for the cause at a time when the city was at the center…
Lucius Jefferson Barker (June 11, 1928 – June 21, 2020) was an American political scientist. He was the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professor and chair of the political science department at Washington University in St. Louis, and then the William Bennett Munro…
The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.17462.1a and 2011.174.62.1b. In this short interview, Lucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway describe their experiences in Terrell County, Georgia. They discuss their childhood memories of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.62.1ab
