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Samuel Edgar Langford (March 4, 1886 – January 12, 1956) was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1902 to 1926. Called the "Greatest Fighter Almost Nobody Knows" by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the greatest…
March 9, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of one digital file: 2011.174.63.1a. Sam Mahone discusses his experiences of racial segregation and discrimination in Americus, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After…
1908–1976
Samson "Sam" Uriah Morris (14 October 1908–25 April 1976) was a Grenada-born educationalist, anti-colonialist and civil rights activist who came to London in 1939, becoming deputy chair for the Commission for Racial Equality in the 1970s.
1973–
Samuel Richard Shade (born June 14, 1973) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Alabama A&M University, a position he has held since 2025. He played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1995…
1963–
James Samuel Vincent (born May 18, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player, and coach. He currently works as a defensive coach for MBB of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). Vincent was Mr. Basketball of Michigan in 1981, before playing…
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Samuel Lee Washington Jr. (born March 7, 1960) is an American football coach and former defensive back who was the head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University. Originally from Tampa, Florida, Washington played college football at Mississippi…
March 9, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.66.1a and 2011.174.66.1b. Samuel J. Young, Jr., describes his childhood in Worth County, Georgia, during the 1950s. He recalls the racial violence that he witnessed and heard stories about as a…
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Samella Sanders Lewis (February 27, 1923 – May 27, 2022) was an American visual artist and art historian. She worked primarily as a printmaker and painter. She has been called the "Godmother of African American Art".
1994–
Samera Paz is an artist and organizer from Washington, D.C., born on May 19, 1994, and current student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is known for leading Girl Power Meetups in D.C. Paz mostly uses photography but has also done some…
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Samito is a Mozambican-Canadian musician who founded Fezihaus, a Montréal-based creative company, in 2020. A music graduate from McGill University, Samito first came to public attention in 2016 with his song Tiku La Hina. He has performed at SXSW, Osheaga,…
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Samiya A. Bashir is a queer American artist, poet, and author. Much of Bashir's poetry explores the intersections of culture, change, and identity through the lens of race, gender, the body, and sexuality. She is currently the June Jordan visiting…
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Sammy Jackson is a Canadian jazz and rhythm and blues singer from St. Catharines, Ontario, whose 2020 EP With You won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. Jackson, who studied vocal performance at the University of…
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Samson Kambalu (born 1975) is a Malawi-born artist, academic and author who trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College.
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Samuel Allen (born April 25, 1936) is an American former professional baseball player for the Negro leagues. Allen was born in 1936 in Norfolk, Virginia. During his high school years at Booker T. Washington High School he was a baseball and football player.
1870–1941
Samuel Howard "Big Boy" Archer Sr. (December 23, 1870 – January 15, 1941) was an American college football player and coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1905 to 1908 and again from 1912 to…
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Samuel Armstead (né Samuel Ball; c. 1804–October 4, 1908) was an American politician, Methodist minister, restaurateur, and was formerly enslaved. An African American, he served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, established a church, and started a…
1852–1909
Samuel Benjamin Morse (December 6, 1852 – May 30, 1909) was an African American educator. He was one of the first students admitted to Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University). He was the founding director of the Department of Music at Savannah…
1837–
Samuel Benjamin Thompson (October 11, 1837 - August 1909) was a lawyer, judicial official, and Reconstruction Era politician in South Carolina. He was a delegate to the 1865 South Carolina Constitutional Constitutional Convention. He was also an elected…
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Samuel E. Dagogo-Jack is a Nigerian-American physician. He is the A.C. Mullins Endowed Professor in Translational Research, Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health…
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Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981) is a Haitian-Canadian former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Seton Hall University. During his active NBA career,…
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Samuel Edward Courtney (c. 1860 – June 1, 1941), also known as S. E. Courtney, was an American physician, teacher, and politician in Boston. He was a founding member of the National Negro Business League.
1926–2009
Samuel E. Kelly Sr. (January 26, 1926 – July 6, 2009) was an American academic. In 1970, he became the first African American senior administrator at the University of Washington.
1907–1988
Samuel Fischer Scott (1907–1988) was an African-American educator. He was the first director of the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University established in 1935 and located in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. He led the Norfolk unit as director from September…
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Samuel H. Holland was a state senator in Arkansas in 1873 and, for a special session, in 1874 during the Reconstruction era. He also served as a teacher, sheriff, jailer, and principal. He taught at the Howard School, named for Oliver O. Howard, until it…
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