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Robert Benjamin Hayes (May 13, 1876–?) was an American educator, academic administrator and college president. He headed Philander Smith College's natural science department, and served as the president of George R. Smith College from 1916 until 1925.
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Robert Hamilton Blackburn (December 12, 1920 – April 21, 2003) was an African-American artist, teacher, and master printmaker.
1945–
Robert C. Bobb is a former appointed official who was the Emergency Financial Manager for the Detroit Public Schools until 2011. In addition to having been employed by the school district, he received a salary from private foundations that promote school…
1935–2024
Robert J. Booker (April 14, 1935 – February 22, 2024) was an American historian, politician, and writer. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
1941–
Robert L. Braddy Sr. (born January 9, 1941) is an American college baseball coach who spent 27 years as the coach for Jackson State University.
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Robert Tecumseh Burt (November 25, 1873 – August 16, 1955) was an African-American medical doctor, surgeon, and teacher. He operated an infirmary and later the only hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee from 1906 to 1916.
1937–1993
Robert Clyve Maynard (June 17, 1937 – August 17, 1993) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher and editor, former owner of The Oakland Tribune, and co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California.
1947–2023
Robert Charles Smith (February 12, 1947 - April 13, 2023) was a political science professor at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He is known for his scholarship on race and politics in the United States, about which he has written several books. The…
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Robert Clifton Weaver (December 29, 1907 – July 17, 1997) was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly…
1951–2004
Robert Campbell (18 April 1951 – 28 May 2004) was an American artist and writer from Marshall, Texas. He studied art for two years at Stephen F. Austin State University, then moved to Los Angeles, where he showed at Gallerie Rabindra. In the 1980s and…
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Robert Campbell (7 May 1829 – 19 January 1884) was a Jamaican-born emigrant from the United States to Lagos Colony who wrote books and published a newspaper. Initially apprenticed to a printer he trained as a teacher in Spanish Town. Finding his salary…
1869–1950
Robert Charles Bates (January 27, 1869 – May 2, 1950), commonly known as R. Charles Bates, was an American architect, educator, and textbook author. He was an African-American architect and helped design and build many of the Claflin University campus…
1937–2013
Robert Chrisman (May 28, 1937 – March 10, 2013) was a poet, scholar, and founding editor and publisher of The Black Scholar (TBS).
1940–2011
Robert Coleman-Senghor (November 8, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American professor of English at Sonoma State University who served as mayor of Cotati, California for one year. He died suddenly in the hospital from a blood clot (which two days earlier had…
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Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and is currently a distinguished professor at Texas Southern…
1922–2001
Robert Davis Glass (November 28, 1922 – November 27, 2001) was the first African American justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, serving from 1987 to 1992. He was a plaintiff in McKissick v. Carmichael, which desegregated the University of North…
1922–1994
Robert Dean Perkins Sr. (August 11, 1922 – April 19, 1994) was an American educator, businessman and civil rights activist based in Tallahassee, Florida. Perkins and his wife, Trudie, are credited with being the catalysts for bringing about equitable…
1916–1989
Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989 or 1992) was an African-American novelist. Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University, but spent most of his career working as a waiter. He…
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Robert Edward Clay (June 25, 1875 – June 23, 1961) was an American educator. He was the state agent for Rosenwald schools in Tennessee and the director of the Sunday School at Tennessee State University. He is the namesake of the R. E. Clay Education…
1936–
Robert Earl Paige (born November 27, 1936) is an American multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator working across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture based in Woodlawn, Chicago, where he was born. As an artist and textile designer allied…
1942–2025
Robert Earl Price (1942 – April 16, 2025) was an American playwright and poet. He was a recipient of the American Film Institute's William Wyler award for screenwriting and was the author of four books of poetry and had eleven plays produced in American…
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Robert Fulton Boyd (July 8, 1855 – July 20, 1912) was an African-American medical doctor, professor, politician, and one of the co-founders of the National Medical Association, serving as its first president between 1895 and 1898. He also researched the…
Biography
Robert Fleming is an American journalist and writer of erotic fiction and horror fiction. He is also a contributing editor for Black Issues Book Review. He began writing in the early 1970s while studying full-time for a degree in psychology at a local…
1922–1945
Robert E. Lee Folkes (June 20, 1922 – January 5, 1945) was an African American man who was convicted and executed in 1945 for the murder of Martha James, a white woman. It has been suspected by some historians that he was wrongly convicted.
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