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1914–2014
Ruth B. Loving (May 27, 1914-November 25, 2014) was an American activist. She has been called "the mother of civil rights" in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1910–2004
Ruth Bolden (May 15, 1910 – May 12, 2004) was a library founder and civil rights worker. She helped found what would become the Weaver-Bolden Branch Library (part of the Tuscaloosa Public Library system) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is now named in honor…
1920–2012
Ruth Cousins Denny (November 1, 1920 - October 9, 2012) was a Black educator and civil rights activist in Denver, Colorado. Denny dedicated her life to combating racial injustice and educating young people. Denny was a founding member of the Denver chapter…
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Ruth Evelyn Hodge is an American archivist, author, educator, and community activist who has furthered the advancement of African-American and United States military history research and writing during the 20th and early 21st centuries.
1899–2000
Ruth Charlotte Ellis (July 23, 1899 – October 5, 2000) was an African-American LGBT rights activist and one of the oldest surviving open lesbians at the age of 101. Her life is celebrated in Yvonne Welbon's documentary film Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis…
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Ruth G. Waddy (January 7, 1909 – May 24, 2003) was an American artist, printmaker, activist, and editor, based in Los Angeles, California.
1886–1975
Ruth Price Hartley Mosley (September 23, 1886 – August 14, 1975) was an American nurse, businesswoman, and civil rights activist. In 1910, she became the first black woman to be the head of a nursing department. Mosley was also one of the first women to be…
1924–1996
Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity (/h’a:vi/, HAHR-vee; April 18, 1924 – April 26, 1996) was an African American civil rights activist and defense attorney in Danville. In 1970, she became the first African American woman to sit on the Danville city…
1942–
Ruth Hassell-Thompson (née Hassell; born November 6, 1942) of Mount Vernon, New York, is a former State Senator who represented the 36th district of New York, which includes the Bronx neighborhoods of Norwood, Bedford Park, Williamsbridge, Co-op City,…
1943–2017
Ruth Elizabeth Jones McClendon (5 October 1943 – 19 December 2017) was an American politician. McClendon was born in Houston on 5 October 1943, and graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School before attending Texas Southern University as an undergraduate…
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Ruth L. Bennett (June 21, 1866 – February 24, 1947) was an American social reformer, women's club founder and the first president of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She founded the…
1891–1968
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891 – 1968) was a suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem, New York City.
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Ruth Tunstall Grant (1945–2017) was an African American artist, educator and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area known for her paintings, community activism, and arts advocacy. Her work has been featured in many invitational group exhibitions as well as…
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City…
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Ryad Assani-Razaki (born November 4, 1981) is a Beninese-Canadian writer. His debut short story collection Deux cercles won the Trillium Book Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and his novel La main d'Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was…
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Ryann Richardson is an American political activist, tech entrepreneur and beauty pageant titleholder who is the 50th Anniversary Miss Black America 2018. She spent 10 years in the tech industry, and held leadership roles at Uber and Victor.
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Stafford Fitzgerald Haney (born January 3, 1969) is an American diplomat and businessman who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica from 2015 to 2017. Haney was nominated as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica by President Barack Obama on…
1916–1999
Samuel Howard Woodson, Jr. (May 8, 1916 – July 28, 1999) was an American pastor, civil rights leader, and Democratic Party politician from New Jersey. He was the first African American to be elected Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
1858–
Samuel L. Woolfolk (November 10, 1858 - ?), sometimes spelled Woodfork, was a member of the Arkansas Legislature in 1891. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas. He was included in a photo montage of African American state legislators serving in…
1988–
Oluwaseun Oluwatosin Otukpe (born 5 December 1988) who goes by the stage name S.O. or Seun Otukpe in full, is a Nigerian Christian hip hop musician of British citizenship, currently based in Texas, United States. So It Begins was released independently in…
October 20, 1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThese newspaper clippings from the San Francisco Sun-Reporter show a photograph(2010.60.1.21a) of the participants in the Sun-Reporter's Political Forum and an article (2010.60.1.21b) describing the events and participants in the Political Forum. These…
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Sabaah Folayan is an American filmmaker and activist. Her debut documentary feature, Whose Streets?, on the 2014 Ferguson protests, premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
1952–
Sabrina Sojourner (born October 23, 1952) is an American politician who previously served as the District of Columbia's Shadow Representative for the at-large district from January 1997 until 1999, the third individual in the position, preceded by John…
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Sadia Groguhé (Arabic: ساديا جروغوه; born November 9, 1962) is a French-Canadian politician of Algerian descent. A municipal councillor in the French city of Istres from 1995 to 2000, Groguhé and her husband immigrated to Canada in 2005. In the 2011…
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