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1951–
Robert Ford (born June 21, 1951) is an American football coach. He won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Houston.
1979–
Robert Nolan Gillespie (born November 2, 1979) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the assistant head coach and running backs coach for the University of Alabama, positions he has held since 2021. Gillespie played in the National…
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Robert Lee Griffin III (born February 12, 1990), nicknamed RGIII or RG3, is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, most notably with the Washington Redskins. Griffin played…
1846–1900
Robert H. Dennis Sr. (c. 1846 - April 17, 1900) was a teacher and state legislator in Florida. In 1875 he represented Jackson County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives. He was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected to the state house along with…
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Rev. Robert Henry Robinson (1824–1909), was an American minister, educator, and an activist for the rights of African Americans during the Antebellum period in Arlington, Virginia. He was born into slavery, but through the negotiation by his grandmother,…
1913–1980
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as U.S. Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American…
1919–2017
Robert Henry “Pete” Bragg Jr. (August 11, 1919 – October 2, 2017), was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
1934–2016
Robert "Big Bob" Hill (c. 1934 – May 17, 2016) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Jackson State University from 1971 to 1976, compiling a record of 44–15–1. Hill's winning percentage of .742 is the second…
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Robert James Jones (born 1951) is an American crop physiologist who has been the 34th president of the University of Washington since August 2025. He served as the 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from September 2016 to June…
1844–
Robert James Moore (c. 1844–?) was a teacher and Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas Legislature. He was born in Navasota, Texas in 1844. After the American Civil War, he became active in the Republican Party. He first served as a…
1930–2026
Robert Kya-Hill (né Robert Hill; December 4, 1930 – May 31, 2026) was an American actor, director, playwright, musician, composer and educator. He also performed under the name "Bob Hill". On learning that there was an actor with the same name, he briefly…
1942–2024
Robert Lee Allen (May 29, 1942 – July 10, 2024) was an American activist, writer, and adjunct professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of…
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Robert Lee Carter (March 11, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, who argued the Brown v Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the…
October 22, 2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of three digital files 2011.174.1.1a, 2011.174.1.1b, 2011.174.1.1c. There is also a transcript of the interview 2011.174.1.2. A digital oral history interview with Robert L. Carter that recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey,…
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Robert "Rob" L. Gordon III is a cross-sector leader in the government, military, academic, nonprofit and high tech sectors. Gordon was appointed the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy on July 19, 2010, serving under…
1920–2010
Robert Edward Lee (13 May 1920 – 5 July 2010) was a Ghanaian dentist. Born in South Carolina to an African-American family, he studied dentistry in Tennessee and then in 1956 emigrated to Ghana with his wife Sara, also a dentist. They were classmates at…
1979–
Robert Leroy Hodge (born 1979) is an American multidisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. He attended three art schools starting in high school and ending in his undergraduate college career.
1861–1942
Robert Lloyd Smith (January 8, 1861 – July 10, 1942) was an educator, businessman, and Republican politician who served two terms in the Texas Legislature. Born a free black in Charleston, South Carolina in 1861, he moved to Texas about 1880. He served as…
1835–1902
Robert Meacham (1835–1902) was an educational, religious and political leader in Florida during and after Reconstruction. An African-American, he was a slave in Quincy, Florida; one of the sons of his enslaver, he was educated by him. He purchased his…
1954–
Robert Michael Franklin Jr. (born February 22, 1954) is an American author, theologian, ordained minister, and academic administrator who served as the tenth president of Morehouse College from 2007 to 2012. Franklin is a visiting scholar in residence at…
1938–2024
Robert Earl Moreland Sr. (November 10, 1938 – July 29, 2024) was an American college basketball coach. He served as the head coach of the Texas Southern Tigers from 1975 to 2001, and as interim head coach during the 2007–08 season. Moreland has the most…
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Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he…
1872–1944
Robert Page Sims (1872–1944) was an early African American academic, civil rights leader, scientist, and college president who held positions at Virginia University of Lynchburg and Bluefield State College. Sims was born in Meyerstown, West Virginia, to…
1898–1990
Robert Percy Barnes (February 26, 1898 - March 18, 1990) was an American chemist and professor, and the first African American to graduate with a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University. He was also the first African American faculty member hired at…
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