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Warde Joseph Manuel (born May 22, 1968) is an American college athletics administrator and former American football player. He has served as the 12th director of athletics at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, since January 2016. Manuel will step…
1954–
Wardell Gilbreath (born August 29, 1954) is an American retired sprinter. Gilbreath was an All-American sprinter for the Arizona Wildcats track and field team, finishing 3rd in the 200 meters at the 1974 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field…
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Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008) was an American religious leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker. He was the son of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam…
1950s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA warm-up jacket for the Lockland Wayne High School basketball team. Jacket is gold with blue accents, including at slanted jetted pockets. Stitched at breast is a panther mascot. Jumper flap on back reads [WAYNE]. Label inside jacket reads [CINCINNATI…
1965-1966
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA white basketball warm up jacket with orange details worn by Jerry Armstrong for the Texas Western College Miners basketball team. The jacket has short sleeves and fastens up the center-front with metal snaps. There are orange double stripe accents around…
1950s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pair of warm-up pants for the Lockland Wayne High School basketball team. Pants are gold with blue piping running laterally down leg. The number 14 is stitched on at hip. Pants have zippers at the cuff for taking off over shoes. Waist is gathered by…
1892–1993
Warmoth Thomas Gibbs Sr. (5 April 1892 – 21 April 1993) was an American educator, retired Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, civil rights activist, and fourth president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Gibbs was one…
1946–
Warren Wesley Buck III (born 16 February 1946) is an American physicist. He is credited with establishing the physics PhD program at Hampton University, a historically Black college in Hampton, Virginia, which was also the campus's first PhD program in any…
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Warren Elliot Henry (February 18, 1909 – October 31, 2001) was an American physicist, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in the fields of magnetism and superconductivity. He…
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Warren Morton Washington (August 28, 1936 – October 18, 2024) was an American atmospheric scientist, a chair of the National Science Board, and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. His…
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Warren Dale Newson (born July 3, 1964) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1991-98. He played for the Chicago White Sox (1991–1995), Seattle Mariners (1995) and…
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Warren Andrew Ward (born November 16, 1989) is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad of the Spanish LEB Oro. He played college basketball for the University of Ottawa.
1942–2017
Warrick L. Carter, PhD (né Warrick Livingston Carter; May 6, 1942 – July 15, 2017) was an American music educator, executive, and president of Columbia College Chicago.
1988–
Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor, and teacher who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize.
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of a group of women standing outside the house of the Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in Washington, DC. Large letters reading [AKA] propped up in front of the group. The photographer's stamp is on the back.
1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Washington D.C. public high school naval cadets dancing on the south mall near the White House. The cadets are dressed in uniform. They are outside with non-uniformed people looking on in the background. The photograph is…
1882-1964
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Washington D.C. Public School Programs and Invitations”.
1859–1902
Washington J. Oglesby (1859 – July 6, 1902) was an American lawyer, and politician in Oakland, California. He is said to be the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar by the State of California when he passed in 1896, his case went to the Supreme Court of…
1928–
Waveney Bushell (born 1928) is a Guyanese-born teacher, activist and "arguably the first Black educational psychologist in the UK". She is most notable for her role in exposing racism and inequality in the British educational system.
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Wayne Alix Ian Frederick (born June 17, 1971) is a Trinidadian-American scholar, surgeon, and university administrator. He is currently the interim president of Howard University in Washington D.C. and a practicing cancer surgeon at Howard University…
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Wayne Levell Cage (born November 23, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player. He attended Ruston High School in Ruston, Louisiana, where the baseball team was undefeated his junior and senior seasons.
Biography
Wayne Dawson is an American television newscaster and co-host of Fox 8 in the Morning, a morning show broadcast on Fox affiliate WJW-TV Channel 8, in Cleveland, Ohio. For two years prior to joining WJW in 1981, Dawson was an anchor/reporter at WNIR-FM in…
Dates not recorded
Wayne Dickens is an American former football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State University from 2009 to 2012 and The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) from 2013 to 2015, compiling a career college football coaching record…
1952–2021
Wayne Benjamin Nunnely (March 29, 1952 – February 16, 2021) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1986 to 1989. He was later an assistant coach in the National Football…
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