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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (May 18, 1840 — August 2, 1914) was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was the wife of Benjamin Tucker Tanner. She was the mother of the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and…
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Sarah Harris Fayerweather (April 16, 1812 – November 16, 1878) was an African American activist, abolitionist, and school integrationist. Beginning in January 1833, at the age of twenty, she attended Prudence Crandall's Canterbury Female Boarding School in…
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Sarah Jama (born 1994 or 1995) is a Canadian activist and former politician who was the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Hamilton Centre from 2023 to 2025. Jama was elected as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), but was ejected…
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Sarah Jane Woodson Early, born Sarah Jane Woodson (November 15, 1825 – August 1907), was an American educator, black nationalist, temperance activist and author. A graduate of Oberlin College, majoring in classics, she was hired at Wilberforce University…
1876–1963
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (January 10, 1876 – January 5, 1963) was an American educator, social and community activist, playwright, poet, novelist, and the first African-American teacher in the Brooklyn school system. Her most notable published work is the…
1889–1999
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100…
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Sarah Keys Evans (born Sarah Louise Keys; 1928 – November 16, 2023) was an African American Army veteran who was a major figure in the civil rights movement in the United States.
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Sarah Mae Flemming Brown (June 28, 1933 – June 16, 1993) was an African-American woman who was expelled from a bus in Columbia, South Carolina, seventeen months before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955. Flemming's lawsuit…
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Sarah Massey Overton (c. 1850 – August 24, 1914) was an American suffragist, women's rights activist, and African-American rights activist. In the 1880s, she became a leader in the fight to allow African-American children in California to attend public…
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Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1826 – December 13, 1894) was an American-born British lecturer, activist, abolitionist campaigner and Italian physician. Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights…
1885–1972
Sarah Randolph Bailey (1885–1972) was an American educator and Girl Scout pioneer. Born in Macon, Georgia, she started scouting troops for African-American girls which eventually earned admission to the state organization in Georgia and formal recognition…
1916–1990
Sarah Ethel Thomas Curwood (January 23, 1916 – October 9, 1990) was an American educator, college professor, activist, and tree farmer.
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Sarah Willie Layton (1864 – January 14, 1950) was a suffragist and civil rights activist.
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Saratha A. Goggins (born 1950/51) is an American politician who served as the first woman mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio.
Biography
Sasha Johnson (born c. 1993–1994) is a British woman who has been an activist and member of Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP). A student of Ruskin College, she was involved in the Rhodes Must Fall protest, and with Black Lives Matter and Kill the Bill…
1840–1895
Sattira 'Sattie' Douglas (c. 1840 – ?) was an American abolitionist and educator. An African American organizer, she helped form and lead multiple committees and clubs in Chicago and the West. Douglas traveled to Kansas near the end of the American Civil…
2015
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital, black-and-white image of Janelle Monáe performing "Hell You Talmbout" during a Black Lives Matter "Say Her Name" protest in Atlanta, Georgia. Monáe is standing left of center. She is wearing a white, long sleeve, polka dot bouse and white cap…
July 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mimeographed document with the Schedule of Courses for fall 1972 semester, issued by the Department of Black and Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College. The schedule is on white paper with purple typewritten text that reads, [DEPARTMENT OF BLACK AND…
1948–
Scherod C. Barnes is an American politician and community activist who represented the 43rd legislative district in Baltimore, Maryland as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Barnes was appointed to the legislature on July 18, 2010 to fill the…
1964; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital print depicting a black-and-white image of people participating in a New York City school boycott demonstration with police officers and buses in the background. At the center of the image are three people. The woman on the right is holding a…
1964; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital print depicting a black-and-white image of three people participating in the 1964 New York City School Boycott. All three individuals are leaning against a metal barricade. The woman on the far left is looking to her proper right. She is wearing…
1964
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman, from her shoulders up at the 1964 New York City School Boycott. The background is out of focus, with a visible person on the left. The woman has a straightened fringe and is starting…
1983
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “School children watching local politicans arrive, Mmabatho (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
Loading image…1863–1943
Scipio Africanus Jones (August 3, 1863 – March 2, 1943) was an American educator, lawyer, judge, philanthropist, and Republican politician from the state of Arkansas. He was most known for having guided the appeals of the twelve African-American men…
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