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Biography
Cheryl Irene Harris is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist. She is a professor of civil rights and civil liberties and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Harris…
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Cheryl Lynn Johnson (born May 8, 1960) is an American government official who served as the 36th Clerk of the United States House of Representatives from February 26, 2019, to June 30, 2023. Between January 3, 2023, and January 7, 2023, Johnson served as…
1958–
Cheryl Lynn McAfee, , (born c. 1958), is an American architect. She is the CEO of McAfee3, an architecture firm founded by her father Charles F. McAfee. In 1990, she was the first woman to receive an architecture license in the state of Kansas. McAfee was…
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Cheryl L. Shavers (born December 26, 1953, San Marcos, Texas) is an American chemist, engineer, and businesswoman. After gaining a degree in chemistry, she worked as an engineer at Motorola. Shavers returned to university for a few years, gaining a PhD in…
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Cheryl Lynn Allen (born December 16, 1947) became the first African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. A Pittsburgh native and former Pittsburgh public school teacher, Judge Allen is a graduate of Penn State University and the…
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Cheryl McKissack Daniel (born May 15, 1961) is an American civil engineer and businesswoman. She is the president and chief executive officer of McKissack & McKissack, a design and construction company founded by her grandfather Moses McKissack III and…
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Cheryl Deann Miller (born January 3, 1964) is an American former basketball player. She was a sideline reporter for NBA games on TNT Sports and also works for NBA TV as a reporter and analyst, having worked previously as a sportscaster for ABC Sports, TBS…
1965–
Cheryl Denise Mills (born 1965) is an American lawyer and corporate executive. She first came into public prominence while serving as deputy White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton, whom she defended during his 1999 impeachment trial. She has worked…
Biography
Cheryl Thompson is a Black Canadian academic known for studying Black media studies, performance, archives and collections in Canada. She is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in the school of…
1947–
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (born 1947) is an American sociologist, womanist scholar, college professor, and ordained Baptist minister.
1980–
Cheryl Weaver (born March 22, 1980) is an American former indoor volleyball player. She played for the United States women's national volleyball team, at the 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix.
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Cheryle Robinson-Jackson (born Cheryle Robinson; July 20, 1965) is an American who was appointed in October 2006 to be the first female president and CEO in the 90-year history of the Chicago Urban League.
1991–2022
Cheslie Corrinne Kryst (; April 28, 1991 – January 30, 2022) was an American television correspondent, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She was also an attorney and a correspondent for the TV show Extra from October 2019 until her death. For her work…
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chess set made by Makonde wood carvers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Negatives (photographic)).
mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA chest of drawers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The four tier chest of drawers is primarily constructed from wood with a reddish brown finish and has eight, matching brass oval drop swing handles on the drawer fronts. The top tier has two small, equal…
2015
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe chest piece, or collar, of a man's costume for the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, a junkanoo troupe in Miami, Florida. The chest piece has a circular neck hole and rests across the shoulders and chest of the wearer. It has an elaborate yellow, white, red, and…
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Chesta Dillard Dean (born February 12, 1885) was a pharmacist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first Black woman to open and operate a pharmacy in Philadelphia.
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Chester "Bromley" Hoke (1847–1913) was an American who served two years in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Company G during the American Civil War, and was a longtime member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), an organization of American Civil War…
1914–2004
Chester Commodore (August 22, 1914 – April 10, 2004) was an African-American cartoonist who made political cartoons and satirical comic strips. He won numerous awards from 1972 to 1980.
1986–
Chester Frazier (born April 14, 1986) is an American college basketball coach from Baltimore, Maryland currently serving as an associate head coach at Virginia Tech.
1897–1985
Chester K. Gillespie (1897–1985) was a lawyer and politician who worked for civil rights in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer, who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. His photographs…
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Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the…
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Chester Lloyd Washington Jr. (April 13, 1902 – August 31, 1983) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher and editor. He was owner of Central News-Wave Publications, which at one time published over a dozen newspapers.
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