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1971–
Clifford Owens is an African-American mixed media and performance artist, writer and curator. Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971 and spent his early life in Baltimore. Owens is known for his works which center on the body and often include…
Dates not recorded
Clifford "Jack" Paul (born c. 1931) is an American former college football and track coach. He served as the head football coach at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, he was hired as the head football coach at Texas Southern…
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Clifford Ray (born January 21, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played three of his ten seasons in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls from 1971 to 1974, and the other seven with the Golden State Warriors from 1974 to 1981.
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Clifford Scott Green (April 2, 1923 – May 31, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Green was the eighteenth African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States,…
1968–
Clifford Victor Johnson (born 5 March 1968) is a British theoretical physicist and professor at the UCSB department of Physics.
1949–
Clifford Wayne Houston (born December 3, 1949) is a microbiologist, educator, and the first African American president of the American Society of Microbiology. Presently, he is a Herman Barnett Distinguished Professor as well as the Associate Vice…
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Cliffs flanking Kakoya to the west. Taken on a trip to visit Simon Ottenberg in Bafodia. April 26-27, 1980. The date on the slide is JUL 80.".
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Cliffs flanking the old town of Kakoya. Taken on a trip to visit Simon Ottenberg in Bafodia. April 26-27, 1980. The date on the slide is JUL 80.".
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Cliffs flanking the old town of Kakoya on the east. Taken on a trip to visit Simon Ottenberg in Bafodia. April 26-27, 1980. The date on the slide is JUL 80.".
2000-01-30
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCliffside. Original Carousel number, 11, slide number, 94.
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Clifton Blackburn Prewitt (July 4, 1826 – January 1902) was an African American businessman, real estate developer, and farmer in Scott County, Kentucky, who had been enslaved in his early life. His name was also spelled as Clifton Prewett, and Clifton Pruitt.
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Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author. Davis wrote The Jackson 5's No. 2 hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1971.
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Clifton DeBerry (September 18, 1923 – March 24, 2006) was an American communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist Workers Party. He was the first black American in the 20th century to be chosen by a political party…
1946–
Dr. Clifton E. Marsh (born August 10, 1946 ) is an American author, sociologist and educator. He has written a number of books that chronicle the history of various people of the African Diaspora.
1938–2017
Clifton Gilliard (March 17, 1938 – June 20, 2017) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He has served the head football coach, head men's track and field and cross country coach, and interim athletic director at…
1941–2009
Clifton Earl Johnson (December 9, 1941 – June 25, 2009) was an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1982 through 1996. Johnson, who was born in Williamston and graduated from North Carolina Central University and its law…
Biography
Clifton Joseph is a Canadian dub poet. He is most noted for his 1989 album Oral/Trans/Missions, from which the song "Chuckie Prophesy" was a shortlisted Juno Award finalist for Best Reggae Recording at the Juno Awards of 1990. A native of Antigua, Joseph…
1951–
Clifton B. Newman (born November 7, 1951) is an American attorney and former at-large judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court. He served as a judge since his election by the state's general assembly in 2000. In 2021, he was reelected to a final fourth…
1919–2011
Clifton O. Dummett, Sr. (1919–2011) was a noted American dentist, dental professor and dean, and dental historian.
ca. 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads, "Clifton on sea hotel (near Cape Town.)".
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Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr. (September 13, 1926 – November 16, 2024) was an American university president, corporate executive, and United States deputy secretary of state. In his multiple careers, he was an African-American pioneer.
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Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr. (May 11, 1899 – April 25, 1990) was an American diplomat, and the first African American diplomat to become an ambassador by rising through the ranks of the Foreign Service rather than by political appointment such as Frederick…
1931
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “"Clinic Doing Good Work Among Negroes of City: Institution on Harden Street Comes Into Being When Need Made Evident by Great Outpouring of Children - Doctor Evans Moving Spirit in Venture."” (Text).
Winter 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Clinical Andrology” (Text).
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