A yellow and black 36-page travel pamphlet, 17th Year Afro-American's Travel Guide, published by The African-American Newspaper (The Afro), 9 May 1942. This annual guidebook was published by the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, competing with the famous…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.19
Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph (born October 22, 1992), known professionally as 21 Savage, is a rapper based in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in London and raised in the US, he began his recording career in 2013 and released three independent mixtapes to regional…
A black plastic point-and-shoot camera. "EZ 35" printed on the upper right corner of the front and the bottom right corner of the top. "35mm Focus Free Color Corrected Lens" is written around the lens on the front.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.6
Cataloged as “#3709: George Faison choreographing "Suite Otis" with dancers Marilyn Banks and Carl Paris in studio with Alvin Ailey watching” (Contact sheet).
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2013.245_ref414
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, record executive, and businessman. Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, Jackson began pursuing a musical career in…
Alfred Bennett Spellman (born August 1935) is a poet, music critic, and arts administrator. Considered a part of the Black Arts Movement, he first received attention for his book of poems entitled The Beautiful Days (1965). In 1966, he published a book on…
A Biography of the Lives of Cortez W. Peters, Sr., World's Accuracy Typist and Cortez W. Peters, Jr., Author and Recorder of Championship Keyboarding Methodology, narrated by JoAnne Peters King. The document is spiral bound with a black plastic spine and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.30.1
A first edition, hardcover copy of A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou. The cloth bound hardcover book has an adhesive binding. The book’s dust jacket has dark, medium, and light blue vertical stripes interspersed with two yellow stripes and one…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.25
A handbill in black ink printed on off-white paper advertising a lecture by Marcus Garvey in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The top two-thirds of the handbill read, [A Call to all the People of / ASBURY PARK / TO HEAR / The Greatest Living Negro Leader and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.61
Arthur George Gaston (July 4, 1892 – January 19, 1996) was an American entrepreneur who established businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. He had a significant role in the movement to remove legal barriers to integration in Birmingham in 1963. In his lifetime,…
A'Lelia Walker (born Lelia McWilliams; June 6, 1885 – August 17, 1931) was an American businesswoman and patron of the arts. She was the only surviving child of Madam C. J. Walker, who was popularly credited as being the first self-made female millionaire…
Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 – December 19, 1977) was a civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights and community groups led Texans…
A. Maceo Walker (June 7, 1909 – June 8, 1994) was an American businessman who led expansion of the Universal Life Insurance Company, founded by his father Joseph Edison Walker in Memphis, Tennessee. Together with his father in 1946, he founded the…
A metal floor lamp and a crystal lampshade. The lamp consists of a circular metal disc (1a), a metal finial (1b), 126 crystal drop beads of varying sizes (1c), and a metal base (1d). The metal disc (1a) has a row of clear glass beads strung around the top…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.140
A silver metal clip, triangular in shape, with clear rhinestones set into the interwoven metal design. A large oval rhinestone or other decoration is missing from the center of the clip. The clip on the back of the accessory has come detached from the front.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.94
