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1941–2006
Benjamin Sylvester Ruffin (December 11, 1941 – December 7, 2006), also known as Ben Ruffin, was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and businessman in Durham, North Carolina. Growing up during the Civil Rights Movement era, Ruffin's life…
mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The mahogany, rectangular, wooden bench, features a rectangular padded cushion. The bench has brown cane webbing over the seat, four carved legs, and an I-shaped support bar attached to the…
October 16, 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black-and-white photograph depicts a large crowd on the colonnaded steps of the National Gallery of Art. Beneath the portico and on the steps the crowd of men talk, mingle, and sit.
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Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [beneˈdʒitɐ ˈsowzɐ da ˈsiwvɐ sɐ̃ˈpaju]; born 26 April 1942) is a Brazilian politician. From a working-class background, she faced class and racial prejudice, overcoming it to become the…
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Benedito Gonçalves (born January 30, 1954) is a Brazilian magistrate, currently a minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He was also a minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the 2021-2023 biennium, as well as corregidor-general of the…
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Benjamin Arthur Quarles (January 23, 1904 – November 16, 1996) was an American historian, administrator, educator, and writer, whose scholarship centered on Black American social and political history. Major books by Quarles include The Negro in the Civil…
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Benjamin Thomas Brooks Sr. (born April 23, 1950) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate for District 10, based in Baltimore County, since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the district in…
1945–1967
Benjamin Brown (May 12, 1945 – May 12, 1967) was an African-American student at Jackson State University active in the civil rights movement, killed on campus during a standoff between law enforcement and students. Upon encountering the standoff (at the…
1842–
Benjamin Byas (1842 – ) was an African-American lawyer and politician during the Reconstruction era. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives representing Orangeburg County from 1870 to 1872, best remembered for being shot by a…
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Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. (born January 22, 1948) is an African-American activist, author, journalist, ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and the current president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He serves as…
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Benjamin Chiles (June 22, 1825 – March 20, 1911) was a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Oktibbeha County from 1874 to 1878. He was born a slave in South Carolina and relocated to Mississippi in 1837, with John M. Chiles.
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Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His firm has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael…
1939–1999
Benjamin D. Brown (November 14, 1939 – February 1, 1999) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
1820–
Benjamin F. Alexander was an American politician. He was a delegate to Alabama's 1867 Constitutional Convention and a state representative for Greene County, Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He lived in Eutaw. A farmer, he was born in North Carolina…
1869–1928
Benjamin Franklin Bowles (1869–1928), commonly written as B. F. Bowles, was an African American civil rights leader, teacher, high school principal, and the founder and president of Douglass University, a 20th-century college for African Americans in…
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Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1820 – October 16, 1868) was an American educator, spiritual advisor, newspaper editor who served as a South Carolina state senator during the Reconstruction Era. Randolph was selected to be one of the first African American…
1815–1881
Benjamin Franklin Roberts (September 4, 1815 – September 6, 1881) was an African-American printer, writer, activist and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts, whose famous case on behalf of his daughter, Sarah Roberts v. Boston, resulted in a verdict that…
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Benjamin F. Royal was a state senator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the state senate in 1868, and was the first African American to serve in the chamber. He represented Bullock County and served for nine years. He served as a…
1920–2016
Benjamin Franklin Shobe (October 2, 1920 – January 29, 2016) was an American civil rights attorney and jurist who advocated for the desegregation of public education and public facilities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Benjamin Frank Adair (1852 – March 28, 1902) was a lawyer who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1891 representing Pulaski County.
1819–1886
Benjamin Franklin Williams (1819–1886) was a Methodist minister and Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas Legislature, served as a delegate to two Texas Constitutional Conventions, and helped found the freedmen's community of Kendleton.
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Benjamin Lawson Hooks (January 31, 1925 – April 15, 2010) was an American civil rights leader and government official. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…
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Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr. (September 8, 1903 – August 22, 1964) was an American communist lawyer and politician who served on the New York City Council from 1944 until his expulsion in 1949. That year, he was among a number of communist leaders…
1932–1997
Benjamin James "BJ" Gordon Jr (November 20, 1932 – July 12, 1997) was a minister, businessman and American politician.
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