Black and white linocut of an unidentified group of workers. The group consists of four men with one woman who is standing in the center. She has one arm raised in a fist above her head. Two men are facing the woman with their backs visible. The man on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.21.9
Mykki Blanco (born April 2, 1986) is an American rapper, performance artist, writer, poet and activist. They have collaborated musically with artists including Madonna, Charli XCX, Blood Orange, Michael Stipe, Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, Big Freedia, and…
Myra Adele Logan (1908 – January 13, 1977) is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery. Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was…
Myra Consetta Selby (born July 1, 1955) is an Indiana attorney in private practice and is a former nominee to be a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her nomination was denied a hearing by the…
Myra Virginia Simmons (June 8, 1880 – March 16, 1965) was a California suffragist and leader of the Colored American Equal Suffrage League (CAESL). She was a prominent Bay Area community organizer who served as Chair of the Women's Civic and Progressive…
Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also…
Myrna Bain (November 27, 1939 – April 12, 2007) born Myrna Delores Bain, was an American political activist, grass-roots organizer, scholar and writer. She was an influential member of several organizations founded by LGBTI women of color, most notably…
Myron Lowery (December 26, 1946 – September 27, 2025) was an American politician who served as the mayor pro tempore of Memphis, Tennessee, from July 31, 2009, to October 26, 2009. He was a television news anchor for WMC-TV 5 in Memphis. Lowery served on…
Myrtle Cole is an American politician who served as a member of the San Diego City Council from 2013 to 2018, representing District 4. A member of the Democratic Party, Cole was the first African American woman elected to the city council and served as…
The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.3.1a and 2011.174.3.1b. Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.3.1ab
Black-and-white photograph of young men and women sitting at a long banquet table inside a restaurant. They are all looking towards the camera and are dressed formally with the men wearing suits with boutonnieres and the women wearing dresses and hats. At…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.17
NAACP Civil Rights Convention - Col. Benj. Davis, Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Daisy Lampkin, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1947 Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 114. A black-and-white photograph of Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Joe Louis,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.96
This black-and-white photograph depicts seven men standing in the foreground of a crowd. The man in front, wearing a dark button down shirt, looks away from the viewer to his right. The two men behind him, wearing zip up jackets and sunglasses, face the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.30
A printed card issued to Mae Reeves in 1972. The card is printed on the front with the NAACP name, logo, and year, as well as the Member price of $4.00. Her name (misspelled "May Reese") and address have been typed on the front. The back of the card is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.9
Nadarius Emmanuel Clark (born May 23, 1995) is an American activist and politician who has served as delegate for the 84th district of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2023, and formerly the 79th district from 2022 to 2023. Clark, a Democrat, defeated…
Nadia Elizabeth Brown is an American political scientist. She is a University Scholar and professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality…
Nadine Girault (May 2, 1959 – February 12, 2023) was a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Bertrand as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.…
Nadine Smith (born August 27, 1965) is an LGBT activist and has been the executive director of Equality Florida since its inception in 1997 and serves as a legislative lobbyist, living in Tallahassee during session. In 1986, Smith served on the founding…
Nahshon Dion Anderson (born April 1, 1978; previously Nahshon Ratcliff) is an American writer, filmmaker, director, producer, artist, publisher, arts advocate and a community organizer. Her work delves into themes of identity, discrimination, and violence,…
Mary Namugenyi "Nam" Kiwanuka (born Namugenyi Kiwanuka) is a Ugandan-Canadian television personality and journalist, currently the host of the TVO news and documentary program The Thread. Kiwanuka came to Canada with her family in 1983, following the civil…
This is an international women’s conference name badge belong to Etta Moten Barnett. It is a pink rectangular piece of paper with black text. Across the top in Spanish it reads “ Tribuna Mudial del / Ano Internacional de la / Mujer.” Under this in smaller…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.64.3
