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Clyde Foster (November 21, 1931 – March 6, 2017) was an American mathematician and NASA official, mayor, educator and education administrator. He worked for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (which became NASA), from 1955 to 1986; working originally as a…
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Colette Pierce Burnette (born 1957) is an American educational administrator. Educated as an industrial engineer, Burnette later became interested in supporting students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). After serving in several…
1928
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA commencement cap purchased by Zora Neale Hurston, for the 1928 Barnard College commencement ceremony. The cap is a black square academic cap. The cap has a horizontal square board affixed to a black skull-cap, with a black tassel attached to the center.…
1928
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA commencement gown purchased by Zora Neale Hurston, for the 1928 Barnard College commencement ceremony. The gown is long and black with wide, long, pointed sleeves. The robes have a rounded collar and opens at the front into a “V.” Down the front hems are…
1917-1918
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA photographic postcard of Company P 506th Engineers Service Battalion at Camp Lee. The photograph features two rows of men in work pants and a jacket or overalls and long sleeve shirts wearing a variety of hats. All of the men stand in a grassy field…
circa 1900
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPrinted caption on recto reads: "Conakry. - Mission catholique." Translated caption reads: "Conakry. - Catholic Mission.".
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Condoleezza "Condi" Rice ( KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005.…
1978
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Connaught Hospital, Freetown. Gate to the old prison yard is at right. Sept. 1978. The date on the slide is DEC 78.".
1923–2007
Constance Winifred Mark, MBE, BEM (née McDonald, previously Goodridge; 21 December 1923 – 3 June 2007) was a Jamaican-born community organiser and activist. She served as a medical secretary in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in World War II. After…
Biography
Connie Yerwood Conner (c. 1908 – June 11, 1991) was a Texas physician and the first black doctor to serve on the Texas Department of Health.
1939–2012
Constance Porter Uzelac (1939–2012), also known as Coni Porter Uzelac, was a medical librarian and archivist in the United States. She was the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Research Center. She is the daughter of Dorothy Porter Wesley and…
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Consuelo Clark-Stewart (July 22, 1860 – April 17, 1910) was an American physician and the first African American woman to practice medicine in Ohio. For twenty years, Clark-Stewart ran a thriving medical practice in Youngstown, Ohio, where she treated both…
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Consuelo H. Wilkins is an American physician, biomedical researcher, and health equity expert. She is Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a professor of…
1927–2020
Consuelo "Connie" Stokes Milner (May 30, 1927 – September 4, 2020) was an American engineer, cryptographer, and educator.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound contracts, April 1865–June 1868, are arranged chronologically.
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Cora Bagley Marrett (born 1942) is an American sociologist. From May 2011 until August 2014, Marrett served as the deputy director of the National Science Foundation.
1938–
Cordell Reed was an African American mechanical engineer and energy executive at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, Illinois.
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Corina Newsome is an American ornithologist, birder, science communicator, and graduate student at Georgia Southern University. In response to the racism faced by Black birder Christian Cooper in Central Park, Newsome co-organized Black Birders Week to…
1862–1912
Dr. Cornelius McKane (February 2, 1862 – 1912) was a Guyanese-American physician and educator. With his wife Alice Woodby McKane, he founded medical schools and hospitals in Savannah, Georgia and Monrovia, Liberia.
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Cornelius Nathaniel Dorsette was an American physician who is often called the first African American doctor licensed in the state of Alabama. He was also the founder of Hale Infirmary, the first hospital in Montgomery for African American patients,…
1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Correspondence and Inventories, Museum of Contemporary Crafts”.
Biography
Justin Booth "Count Justice" Johnson is from Los Angeles, California. He is a songwriter, producer and engineer who has most notably produced songs for Chris Brown ("New Flame"), Alesha Dixon ("Top Of The World"), Sevyn Streeter ("Shoulda Been There"),…
July 1981
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn undated newspaper article on the celebration of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Anderson (Buck) and Amanda Carey Carter. The headline reads [Couple Celebrate Golden Anniversary]. To the right of three short columns of text is a…
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Courtney D. Fitzhugh is an American hematologist-oncologist and scientist. She is a clinical researcher and head of the laboratory of early sickle cell mortality prevention at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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