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Biography & Culture

Clint C. Wilson Sr.

1914–2005

Clint Cornelius Wilson Sr. (1914 – September 18, 2005) was an African-American editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the most prominent Black owned newspaper in California.

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Literature

Clint Dyer

1968–

Clint Dyer (born 4 November 1968) is an English actor, director, and playwright. He was director of the premier production of The Big Life, whose transfer to Apollo Theatre in 2005 made him the first Black British director of a musical in the West End. In…

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Sports & Achievement

Clint Kent

1983–

Clint Kent (born October 14, 1983) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. He is an assistant football coach at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. Kent played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a defensive back. He…

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Literature & Journalism

Clint Smith (writer)

1988–

Clinton Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one…

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Education & Scholarship

Clinton Bristow Jr.

1949–2006

Clinton Bristow Jr. (1949 – August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and who served as the president of the Chicago Board of Education and as the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University.

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Biography & Culture

Clinton Caldwell Boone

1872–1939

Clinton Caldwell Boone (9 May 1872 –1939) was an African-American Baptist minister, physician, dentist, and medical missionary who served in the Congo Free State and Liberia. The son of Rev. Lemuel Washington Boone and Charlotte (Chavis) Boone of Hertford…

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Politics & Public Life

Clinton D. Pierson

Biography

Clinton D. Pierson (died January 13, 1870) was an American politician and businessman. Reared enslaved, he was emancipated during the American Civil War and became a leading political advocate of the interests of freedmen in New Bern, North Carolina. After…

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Music

Clinton Derricks-Carroll

1953–

Clinton Derricks-Carroll (born May 15, 1953, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actor and musician who is best known for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), Wally Brown (1979) and Sanford (1980–1981).

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Politics

Clinton E. Deveaux

1946–

Clinton E. Deveaux (born May 31, 1946) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1977 to 1978.

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Education & Scholarship

Clinton J. Calloway

1869–1940

Clinton J. Calloway (April 18, 1869–1940) was an American educator and school administrator. He was a leader of efforts to open and improve rural schools in Alabama and other areas in the American South.

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Sports

Clinton Jackson

1954–

Clinton Jackson (born May 20, 1954) is an American former professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won a silver medal at the 1974 World Championships and a gold at the 1975 Pan American Games.

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Biography & Culture

Clinton Liberty

Biography

Clinton Liberty is an Irish actor and dancer. On television, he is known for his roles in the ITV miniseries Holding (2022) and the HBO series House of the Dragon (2024–present). His films include Touchdown (2024).

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Sports

Clinton Morrison

1979–

Clinton Hubert Morrison (né Chambers; born 14 May 1979) is a former professional footballer and sports pundit. As a player, he was a forward. He played in the Premier League for both Crystal Palace and Birmingham City.

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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Clinton Swart Family — Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection

circa 1975

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The Clinton Swart Family home movies features travel footage, family outings, and gatherings with family and friends. Additionally, the footage heavily features off-road motorcycle riding.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref118
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Historical photographs & documents

Clinton Swart home movie #1

Date not recorded

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A Family visiting abandoned homes with view of tomb stones from deceased relatives. Scenes show multiple motorcyle races in different locations and riders attemping going over obstacles and over hills. the cyclists laugh and joke while repairing the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20170201_Swart_R8S8_01-09
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Politics & Public Life

Clinton Wesley Battle

1849–1927

Clinton Wesley Battle (September 27, 1849 – May 15, 1927) was an American politician in North Carolina during and after the Reconstruction era. He represented Edgecombe County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1879 and 1881.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Time-based Media - Moving Images

Clip from Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed

1968

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A documentary film with the title “Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed” from the Of Black America television series. It consists of two (2) reels of color acetate film with optical sound. The documentary opens with narrator Bill Cosby discussing…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.76.1a
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Time-based Media - Moving Images

Clip of Benny Goodman Orchestra performing "Sing, Sing, Sing" on Hollywood Hotel

1937

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A 16mm motion picture film with a clip of The Benny Goodman Orchestra performing "Sing, Sing, Sing" on the musical comedy Hollywood Hotel. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.275.22.1a
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MUSEUM OBJECT
tablets

Clipboard from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

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A fiberboard tablet with a metal clip at the top found in the metal file box 2010.6.33.1 from Mae's Millinery Shop.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.33.2
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Historical photographs & visual records

Clipping, from Boston Sunday Globe, January 9, 1972, page 4-A, article titled, "USIA's right-wing bias: Director Frank Shakespeare's missionary zeal is directed at stopping Communism," with photograph of Frank Shakespeare

1972

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Cataloged as “Clipping, from Boston Sunday Globe, January 9, 1972, page 4-A, article titled, "USIA's right-wing bias: Director Frank Shakespeare's missionary zeal is directed at stopping Communism," with photograph of Frank Shakespeare”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1973-001_ref41539
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Clipping from New York Times with story "The Influence of Black Architects"

August 5, 1993

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A clipping from the August 5, 1993 edition of the New York Times page C3 with a brief article titled "The Influence of Black Architects" on the exhibition "Design Diaspora: Black Architects and International Architecture 1970-1990" at the Chicago…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.25.9
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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Clipping - From Village to Vogue Brooklyn Museum Exhibit, "Antiques and the Arts Weekly" — Series 5: Legacy and Posthumous Exhibits

2008 September 5

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Cataloged as “Clipping - From Village to Vogue Brooklyn Museum Exhibit, "Antiques and the Arts Weekly"”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2022.64_ref276
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Historical photographs & visual records

Clipping from Zaire, January 31, 1972, page 9. Photograph of Eliot Elisofon and John Putnam with the director and the editor-in-chief of the publication

1972

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Cataloged as “Clipping from Zaire, January 31, 1972, page 9. Photograph of Eliot Elisofon and John Putnam with the director and the editor-in-chief of the publication”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1973-001_ref41534
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