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1975-06-16
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Courtyard with Ogun shrine behind #4 Moko St., Moko Quarter. Colgate shrine. Monday".
Dec. 1866–Oct. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Covington”.
Biography
Craig E. Cameron is the chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society for Microbiology.
Biography
Craig Steven Wilder is an American academic historian, professor of American history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Crowd of men and children".
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Cullen R. Buie is an African American mechanical engineer specializing in microbial fuel cells.
Biography
Cynthia Chapple is an American research chemist and non-profit executive. Chapple is the founder and managing director of Black Girls Do STEM. This program was created with a mission to increase curiosity through deliberate education access and…
1945–
Cynthia Flynn Capers (born January 3, 1945) is an American nurse, educator, researcher and administrator. She is Dean of the University of Akron's School of Nursing, Chair of the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing, national advisor to the Johnson &…
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Cynthia Hall (1922/3? - ?) was an American nuclear scientist and expert in poisons. She worked on the Manhattan Project at the Argonne National Laboratory, where she was one of the few female African American scientists assigned to the project.
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Cynthia L. Quarterman is an American lawyer and engineer, former Director of the Minerals Management Service and Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration from 2009 until her resignation on October 4, 2014.
1960–
Dr. Cynthia R. McIntyre (born 1960) is a theoretical physicist and former Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness. Her research focuses on the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures.
1941–
D’Mitch Davis (born July 15, 1941) is an American actor and musician best known for his roles as the Axminster in the 1990s TV show MacGyver, and the Bartender in the 1985 film Weird Science.
1881–1956
Daisy Hill Northcross (December 9, 1881 – January 10, 1956) was an American physician and hospital administrator, based in Detroit, Michigan.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPostcard image of a street, with a gated compound in the foreground and a sign above the gate reads: "Ecole De Medecine De L'Afrique Occidentale Francaise; Hopital Indigene D'Instruction." Text on verso reads: "29 DAKAR - Ecole de Medecine.".
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Damião Feliciano da Silva (born 28 April 1952) is a Brazilian politician who has been a federal deputy from the state of Paraíba since 2007, having also previously been a federal deputy from 1999 to 2004. He is currently affiliated with the Brazil Union…
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Damien Fair is a behavioral neuroscientist, professor at the University of Minnesota, and director of the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain. In 2020, he was selected for the MacArthur Fellows Program. In 2013, he received the Presidential Early…
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DaNa L. Carlis ( də-NAY KAR-lis) is an American meteorologist and director of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. He is the first African American to serve as the head of a NOAA research laboratory.
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Dana Olden Baldwin, M.D. (March 20, 1881– November 9, 1972) was a prominent African American physician in Martinsville, Virginia. He served in World War I as a medical officer until he was honorably discharged in 1918. In addition to his medical practice,…
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Daniel Anthony is an English actor. He is known for his regular roles as Clyde Langer in the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011) as Jamie Collier in the medical drama Casualty (2013–2014) and as the voice of Horace the frog in…
1923–2003
Daniel Grafton Hill III (November 23, 1923 – June 26, 2003) was an American-Canadian sociologist, civil servant, human rights specialist, and Black Canadian historian. An American born in Missouri and raised in the western United States, Hill went to…
1856–1931
Williams founded one of the first Black-owned hospitals and, in 1893, repaired a patient’s pericardium in an operation now regarded as pioneering heart surgery.
1824–1869
Daniel Laing Jr. (1824–1869) was an American medical doctor who practiced in the United States and Liberia. He was one of the first African American physicians in the United States.
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Daniel Wallace Culp (February 29, 1852 – October 11, 1918) was an doctor, pastor, and educator in Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. He is best known for his book about notable African Americans. He was the first graduate of Biddle Memorial Institute, now…
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Danielle Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971) is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at…
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