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1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife” (Slides (photographs)).
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA documentary film with the title “Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed” from the Of Black America television series. It consists of two (2) reels of color 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The documentary opens with narrator Bill Cosby discussing…
2003
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis large bronze sculpture is in the abstract form of a woman holding an open book. The figure stands with feet apart, her right foot slightly in front of her left. Her arms are positioned out in front of her, each hand supporting one side of an open…
June 1881
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA small booklet (2011.155.5a) produced by West Point listing the officers and cadets at the United States Military Academy in 1881. The booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper with saddle-stitched binding and 39 numbered pages. The listing of…
June 1887
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA small, center-stitched bound booklet produced by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point listing officers and cadets of the Academy in 1887, including three African American cadets: John Hanks Alexander, Charles Young, and Henry Wilson Holloway. The…
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Ogugua "OG" Anunoby Jr. (born 17 July 1997) is a British professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers and was selected by the Toronto Raptors in…
1930-1950
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA woodcut print of a two story house. A door a path leading to a door in the building is at center. A balcony is above the door. The door has pillars on either side of it. Trees are on both sides of the path leading to the door. The print is inscribed on…
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Ogonna Nneka Nnamani (born July 29, 1983) is a physician, retired American indoor volleyball player, and former member of the United States National and Olympic teams. She was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup in 2004 as the nation's top female athlete…
1870s; ca. 1909
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA framed black-and-white photograph and vinyl record. Both are framed in white matting. The black-and-white photograph is positioned above the record. 2010.59.2a: The black-and-white photograph depicts a group of four men and five women in early 1900s…
Biography
Oku Ekpenyon MBE is a British campaigner and former history teacher who is founder and chair of the charity Memorial 2007 (MEM2007), advocating over two decades for the establishment of Britain's first permanent national memorial to honour the millions of…
Biography
Ola Labib (Arabic: علا لبيب) is a British comedian. Born in Portsmouth, she became a pharmacist after failing to get into medical school, and spent more than seven years working in the National Health Service (NHS). An incident in which she administered…
1968–
Olatunde C. Johnson (born 1968) is an American legal scholar. She teaches at Columbia Law School as Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law. Johnson graduated from Yale College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from Stanford Law School with a Juris…
1967–
Oley Lucretia Clara Dibba-Wadda (born 24 March1967, Oxford, United Kingdom) is a Gambian social development executive, policy strategist and gender equality advocate. She is recognized for her leadership in education reform, women's empowerment, and youth…
1908–1980
Olive Myrl Diggs (April 22, 1908 - November 10, 1980) was the managing editor of Anthony Overton's Chicago Bee from 1929 until it closed in 1947, a public official advocating for Chicago's African American community, and a city planner. She was born in…
1902–1993
Olive F. Wiley (née Thomas) (July 12, 1902 - July 1993) was an African American civil rights activist and education administrator born in Warwick, Rhode Island. Wiley was a founder and president of the Mt. Hope Day Care (now Mount Hope YMCA Child Care Center).
1877–1957
Olive Myrtle Henderson (1877–1957) was the second African American woman dentist in the city of Chicago and the first African American woman to graduate with a degree in dentistry from Northwestern University.
1941–
Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005, she was awarded the Musgrave Medal in gold by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to…
1910–1989
Oliver Cromwell Dawson (September 7, 1910 – February 9, 1989) was an American athlete and sports coach. After playing several sports at John Carroll University, he served as a coach and athletic director for the South Carolina State Bulldogs from 1935 to…
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Oliver White Hill Sr. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was an American civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions…
1959–
Oliver Keith Baker (born July 18, 1959) is an American experimental particle physicist and astrophysicist, the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is best known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson as a member…
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Oliver LaGrone (December 9, 1906 – October 15, 1995) was an African-American sculptor, poet, educator, and humanitarian. In 1974, a post-secondary scholarship was created in his name, enlarged and refocused in 1991 for graduates of the public high school…
1935–
Oliver Lee Jackson (born 1935) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, and educator. His art studio is in Oakland, California. He was a professor at the California State University, Sacramento from 1971 until 2002, and developed a…
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Oliver Wendell "Buddy" Pough III is an American former college football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at South Carolina State University, a position he held from 2002 until his retirement in 2023. He led the South Carolina State…
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Oliver Gordon Purnell Jr. (born May 19, 1953) is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Radford University from 1988 to 1991, Old Dominion University from 1991 to 1994, the University of Dayton from…
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