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Sherrilyn Ifill (born December 17, 1962) is an American attorney and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights (Vernon E. Jordan) at Howard University. She is a law professor and the former president and director-counsel of the NAACP…
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Sherrone Banfield Moore (first name ; born February 3, 1986) is an American former college football head coach and player. He most recently served as the head football coach for the University of Michigan. Moore served as Michigan's acting head coach in…
1979–
Shervone Neckles (born 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community worker. Her work draws inspiration from the duality and transitional nature of her Afro-Grenadian-American identity. Neckles’ practice combines mixed media techniques of…
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Sheryl E. Sims is a German-born American quilter. She was appointed as the Commissioner for the Arts of Alexandria, Virginia in 2022.
1961–
Sheryll D. Cashin (born December 15, 1961) is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists. Her parents' role in the civil rights movement impressed on her…
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Shevrin D. "Shev" Jones (born October 12, 1983) is an American educator and politician serving as a member of the Florida Senate from the 34th district since 2022. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the 35th district…
1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA copy of a Nicolet High School yearbook, titled “Shield," from 1969. The front cover is blue. It has silver, raised, stylized outlines of male and female human figures and faces running vertically down the left side of the front cover and across the…
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Shiriki K. Kumanyika is an Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and co-chair of the International Association for the Study of Obesity International Obesity Task Force.…
1937–
Shirley Ann Redd Lewis (née Redd; born June 11, 1937) was an American educator, academic administrator, and college president. In 1994, she was the first female president of Paine College, a private, historically black Methodist college in Augusta,…
1946–
Jackson was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT and led major scientific and academic institutions.
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Shirley Childress Johnson Saxton (June 28, 1947 - March 6, 2017) was an African-American sign language instructor and interpreter, born in Washington, D.C. She became the 18th member of Sweet Honey in the Rock as a sign language interpreter, from 1980 up…
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Chisholm championed education, children, workers and women, and became the first Black candidate to seek a major party’s presidential nomination.
1946–
Shirley F. Marks (born 1946) is an American psychiatrist. She was the second African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
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Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist, professor, and a researcher who rose to prominence as one of the 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls. She was one of the fourteen African American girls who were imprisoned during the Civil Rights Movement in…
1932–1998
Shirley LaVada Hall Bass (December 9, 1932 – August 27, 1998) was an American dancer, vocalist, choreographer, and educator who performed across the United States and Canada with the all-female dance, vocal, and acrobatic act the Dyerettes from 1946-1960.…
1941–
Shirley J. Allen (born 1941) is an American academic. A longtime professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1992 she became the first black and deaf woman to earn a doctoral degree.
1953–
Shirley A. Jefferson (born 1953) is an American law school administrator and faculty member. She serves as vice president of community engagement and government relations and associate law professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School. A native of Selma,…
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Shirley Jo Finney (July 14, 1949 – October 10, 2023) was an American actress and theater director. Finney was born in Merced, California, in 1949, and grew up primarily in Sacramento, California. She graduated from Sacramento State College with a degree in…
1940–2019
Shirley LeFlore (1940–2019) was an American poet, one of St. Louis' most influential performance art poets. Before she became a board member for Word In Motion, she split her time between performances in New York City and teaching creative writing at the…
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Shirley M. Malcom currently serves as a senior advisor and director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is a trustee of Caltech, and a regent of Morgan State University. Malcom serves on the boards of the…
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Shirley Marie Watts (born March 6, 1959) is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland. Since July 2013, she has served as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Maryland, the state's highest court. Watts is the first African American woman to serve…
1942–2013
Shirley Matthews (October 8th,1942 – January 8th, 2013) was a Canadian pop singer. Matthews sang in a church choir and at high school dances prior to embarking on a career in music. She worked in a Bell Telephone office while singing nights at the Club…
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Shirley Sherrod (born November 20, 1947) is an American civil rights activist and former USDA Rural Development director for the state of Georgia. She is currently the executive director for the Southwest Georgia Project and Vice President of Development…
1958–
Shirley Joy Thompson (born 7 January 1958) is an English composer, conductor, and violinist of Jamaican descent. Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other works for ensembles, as well as music for TV, film, and…
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