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Oscar Barton Jr. is an American professor of engineering and dean of the engineering school at Morgan State University.
1946–2020
Oscar Lee Brown (February 8, 1946 – June 3, 2020) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder who appeared in all or parts of five seasons for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He is a brother of two other professional athletes:…
1888–1972
Oscar James Cooper (1888 – October 9, 1972) was a physician and African-American cultural leader. He is known for cofounding Omega Psi Phi in Washington, D.C., the first fraternity founded by students at a historically black college. In Philadelphia,…
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Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938), nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a 12-time All-Star,…
1909–1967
Oscar Washington Ritchie (February 16, 1909 – June 16, 1967) was the first African-American professor at a predominantly white university in the state of Ohio.
1890–1983
Osceola Marie Adams (née Macarthy; June 13, 1890 – November 11, 1983), known professionally as Osceola Archer, was an American actress and fashion designer who was one of the first Black actresses to appear on Broadway in Between Two Worlds in 1934. She…
1995–
O'Shea Angelo McDonald (born 6 August 1995), also known as Osh, is an English singer and rapper. He grew up singing in his church choir, and learned to play the piano and the violin. As a teenager, he concentrated on sports, receiving a football…
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Oshae Jahve Brissett ( oh-SHAY brih-SET; born June 20, 1998) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball in Division I for the Syracuse Orange…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Oshun priest from Oshogbo at University of Ibadan” (Slides (photographs)).
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Ositadimma "Osi" Umenyiora ( ; born November 16, 1981) is a British-Nigerian former professional American football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Troy Trojans and was selected by the…
1895–1960
Ossian Haven Sweet (/ˈɒʃən/ OSH-ən; October 30, 1895 – March 20, 1960) was an African-American physician in Detroit, Michigan. He is known for being acquitted of murder in 1925 after he and his friends used armed self-defense against a hostile white mob…
1983–
Osvaldo Jeanty (born August 1, 1983) is a Canadian basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is one of the all-time greats of the Carleton University Ravens men's basketball team and a member of the Ravens' Hall of Fame. Jeanty was…
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Otelia Cromwell (April 8, 1874 – April 25, 1972) was a distinguished scholar and Professor of English Language and Literature at Miner Teachers College now known as University of the District of Columbia. She was the first African American to graduate from…
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Otelia Roberta Shields Howard (September 15, 1900 – December 13, 1945) was an American professor of English. She taught more than twenty years at Virginia State College, and founded the school's newspaper, the Virginia Statesman.
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Coatlen Othell Wilson (born October 26, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6-foot-0-inch (183 cm), 190-pound (86 kg) point guard, Othell Wilson attended Woodbridge High School and Gar-Field Senior High School, both in Virginia.…
1925–2020
Othella Dallas (September 26, 1925 – November 28, 2020) was an American dancer and jazz singer. After working in Paris and Zürich, she opened a dance school in Basel's Gundeldingen quarter in 1975, where she taught the Dunham technique.
1898–1979
Otis E. Finley Sr. (1898 – August 27, 1979) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1924 and at Virginia State College for Negroes—now known as Virginia State University–from…
1982–
Otis Harris Jr. (born June 30, 1982, in Edwards, Mississippi) is an American track and field athlete. He won the silver medal in the 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Harris attended Hinds Agricultural High School in Utica, Mississippi, and collected…
1928–1993
Otis L. Floyd (1928 – May 19, 1993) was an African-American university administrator. He served as the president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1990, and as the chancellor of the…
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Otis Milton Smith (February 20, 1922 – June 29, 1994) was the first African American justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and the General Counsel for General Motors. Smith graduated from law school at The Catholic University of America in 1950, where he…
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Otis Fitzgerald Smith (born January 30, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Jacksonville Dolphins.
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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek (born 1966), also known as Juliane Okot Bitek, is a Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer and academic, who lives, studies and works in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is perhaps best-known for her poetry book 100 Days, a…
1948 - 1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOutdoor Group Shot of Children seated in front of a Building, Lucy L. Webb School.
1948 - 1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOutdoor Group Shot of Children, Lucy L. Webb School.
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