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Victoria Garvin (December 18, 1915 – June 11, 2007) was an American political activist, Pan-Africanist, and self-described working class internationalist. While growing up in a working-class family during the height of the Great Depression, Garvin was…
Loading image…1953–
Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange (née Miles; born September 30, 1953) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United…
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Victor Olufemi Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, (; born 21 July 1962) is the former Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and the current Chair of the NHS Confederation, and was one of the first individuals to become a People's Peer. He…
Born 1864
Victor B. Walker (born 1864) was an African American soldier, political activist, lawyer, civil rights activist, police officer, saloon owner, journalist, and gangster in the Old West, particularly in Omaha, Nebraska, and in Denver, Colorado, at the end of…
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Victor O. Frazer (born May 24, 1943) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district as an independent from 1995 to 1997.
1843–1892
Victor Rochon (March 23, 1843 - November 15, 1892) was a merchant, public official, and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives representing St. Martin Parish from 1872 to 1874 and briefly in 1875 and from 1888 to…
1949–1999
Victoria Buckley (November 2, 1949 – July 14, 1999) was an American politician who served as the Secretary of State of Colorado from 1995 to 1999.
Loading image…Born 1877
Victoria Clay Haley (January 1, 1877 – after 1940), later Victoria Clay Roland, was an American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser based in St. Louis, Missouri and later in Chicago.
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Victoria Earle Matthews (née Ella Victoria Smith, May 27, 1861 – March 10, 1907) was an American author, essayist, newspaperwoman, settlement worker, and activist. She was born into slavery in Fort Valley, Georgia, and moved to New York City with her…
Loading image…1926–2006
Victoria Jackson Gray Adams (November 5, 1926 – August 12, 2006) was an American civil rights activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was one of the founding members of the influential Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Loading image…1953–
Victoria Jackson-Stanley (born August 20, 1953) is an American politician who previously served as mayor of the city of Cambridge, Maryland. She was the first African-American and the first female mayor of Cambridge, Maryland.
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Victoria R. Woodards (born July 16, 1965) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 39th mayor of Tacoma, Washington. Prior to her tenure as mayor, she served for seven years as an at-large member of the Tacoma City…
1912–2006
Victorine Quille Adams (née Quille; April 28, 1912 – January 8, 2006) was the first African-American woman to serve on the Baltimore City Council. Born in Baltimore, Maryland to Joseph C. and Estelle Tate Quille, she graduated from Frederick Douglass High…
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Victorine Spears Kinloch (1885 - 1951) was an African-American suffragist who lived and worked in Rhode Island, New York, and California. Her sister Charlotta Bass is well known for her civil rights activities in Los Angeles.
Biography
Vida B. Johnson is an American criminal defense attorney and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Johnson directs the Criminal Justice Clinic, and supervises attorneys in the E. Barrett Prettyman Post-Graduate Fellowship Program. Johnson…
1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGraphic booklet with a black and white illustration on the front cover. The illustration depicts soldiers wading into a river with dense tropical foliage along the riverbank. Palm fronds are prominent in the right middle ground of the image. The soldiers…
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Vilma Maria dos Santos Reis (born 1969) is a Brazilian sociologist and activist. She is a defender of human, women's, black, youth and LGBT rights. She is a teacher at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and from 2015 to 2019 she held the position of…
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Vincent Gordon Harding (July 25, 1931 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American pastor, historian, and scholar of various topics with a focus on American religion and society. A social activist, he was perhaps best known for his work with and writings about…
Loading image…1956–
Vincent J. Hughes (born October 26, 1956) is an American politician who is serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 7th District since 1994. Hughes previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of…
1965–
Vincent Lamont Hutchings (born October 17, 1965) is an American political scientist. He is a political science professor at the University of Michigan and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research. He was elected a Fellow of the National…
Loading image…1957–
Vincent Bernard Orange Sr. (born April 11, 1957) is an American former politician from Washington, D.C.. A lawyer and a certified public accountant, Orange represented Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007, and was an at-large…
1924–2003
Vincent T. Cullers (b. 1924 – October 4, 2003) was an American designer, advertising professional, and civil rights activist. Motivated by the civil rights movement in the United States, Vince Cullers made history in 1956 by founding Vince Cullers…
after 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA newspaper article about racial integration on Martha's Vineyard.
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Viriato Manuel Pereira de Macedo (born October 16, 1965), also popularly known as Vinny deMacedo, is a Cape Verdean American politician, and was the Massachusetts State Senator for the Plymouth and Barnstable District, which comprises the communities of…
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