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Albert Bryant Jr. (born February 22, 1952) is a retired United States Army brigadier general, best known for service as the Chief of Western Hemisphere Operations during and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and for his tenure as the Assistant…
Biography
Albert Butler (born 1947) is an American politician who has served as a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate since 2010. He represents the 37th district, having previously represented the 36th district, and was elected following a special…
Biography
Albert C. Johnston (August 17, 1900 – June 23, 1988) was an American doctor. Described as part-black and of multiracial parentage Johnston and his family, passed as white while living in Gorham and Keene, New Hampshire. William Lindsay White wrote a…
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Albert Irvin Cassell (1895–1969) was a prominent mid-20th-century African-American architect in Washington, D.C., whose work shaped many academic communities in the United States. He designed buildings for Howard University in Washington D.C., Morgan State…
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Albert B. Cleage Jr. (June 1911 – February 20, 2000) was a Black nationalist Christian minister, political candidate, newspaper publisher, political organizer, and author. He founded the prominent Shrine of the Black Madonna Church, as well as the Shrine…
1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Albert Collins playing a woodgrain Fender Telecaster with a white pick guard at a performance in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He is wearing a dark floral shirt tucked into gray pants with a black belt and a guitar-shaped belt buckle.…
1968–2015
Albert Pierce Evans (December 29, 1968 – June 22, 2015) was an American ballet dancer and choreographer. He joined the New York City Ballet in 1988, became a principal dancer in 1995, making him the second African American dancer to hold this position, and…
1928–
Albert Fitzpatrick, also known as Al Fitzpatrick, (born December 30, 1928) is a journalist and media executive for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, United States, where he was the only African American working for the company. He was inducted into…
1915–1999
Albert Edwin Frazier (January 23, 1915 – August 18, 1999) was an American Negro league baseball player and collegiate American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach and baseball coach at Savannah State University in Savannah,…
1881–1924
Albert Grant Brown (1881–1924) was an American architect and professor. He was an early African American architect and taught architecture at West Virginia Colored Institute (now West Virginia State University).
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Albert Hall (March 7, 1958 – December 16, 2025) was an American professional baseball player who played the majority of his Major League career for the Atlanta Braves.
1884–1939
Albert Henderson Wade Ross (1884–1939), whose name is often abbreviated as A. H. W. Ross, was an American businessman, lawyer, newspaper owner, and baseball team owner. Ross and the Denver Independent Publishing Company were owners from 1913 to 1963 of The…
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Albert Joseph Edmonds (born January 17, 1942) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as director of the Defense Information Systems Agency from 1994 to 1997. He was born in Columbus, Georgia. Edmonds was commissioned in 1964…
1943–2021
Albert Jordy Raboteau II (September 4, 1943 – September 18, 2021) was an American scholar of African and African-American religions. Since 1982, he had been affiliated with Princeton University, where he was Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion.
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Albert Calvin Jackson (2 November 1857 — 14 January 1918) was the first Black Canadian mail carrier in Toronto. Jackson faced discrimination when he started his position in 1882 and was reassigned as mail porter. When the decision was reversed by Prime…
1817–
Albert Johnson was an American state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871. He was born in Kentucky. He was enslaved and worked as a plasterer. In 1868, the…
1898–1967
As president of the African National Congress, Luthuli championed nonviolent resistance to apartheid and won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize.
1846–1912
Albert Francis Mando (June 18, 1846 - October 10, 1912) was a musician in the United States. He was a composer, conductor, and educator. The New York Age profiled him in 1907.
1916–2013
Albert L. Murray (May 12, 1916 – August 18, 2013) was an American literary and music critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer. His books include The Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, and Stomping the Blues.
April, 1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Al Nellum standing with Mayor Marion Barry and actor Billy Dee Williams. All three men are dressed in formal attire. Billy Dee Williams and Al Nellum are holding glasses in their hands. Mayor Barry is looking at the camera…
1922–2004
Albert William Thompson (June 29, 1922 –December 26, 2004) was an American politician and jurist for the state of Georgia. In 1965, he became one of the first African Americans to serve in the desegregated Georgia House of Representatives, and continued to…
1936–2000
Albert Turner (February 29, 1936 – April 13, 2000) was an American civil rights activist and an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. He was Alabama field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead the voting rights march from…
1927–1985
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid (November 13, 1927 – February 26, 1985) was an American mathematician who worked extensively on probability theory, Markov chains, and statistics. The author of more than 70 papers and 6 books, his work touched on such diverse…
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Albert Vann (November 19, 1934 – July 14, 2022) was an American politician and a member of the New York City Council from Brooklyn, representing the 36th district, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. He was a Democrat.
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