Black children in Washington, D.C. participated in the annual Easter egg hunt at the White House, one of the public events that blacks were allowed to attend in that segregated city.
White House Easter Egg Roll, 1898. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Since the early 1900s, four generations of the Harrison family have "masked Indian," including the year-long project of hand-making the elaborate costumes, a tradition beginning with the uncles of Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. (now deceased) and passed on. This costume was created and worn by Harrison's grandson, Big Chief Brian Nelson in 1999.
Full Mardi Gras Indian suit of Big Chief Brian Nelson, Guardians of the Flame (1999). Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. Photograph by Michael Barnes.