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1945–2020
Howard Wayne Redmond (November 25, 1945 – August 8, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. He played 933 games of minor league baseball during his nine-season (1965–1973) career, and had brief trials with the 1965 and 1969 Detroit Tigers of…
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Wayne Kirby Simpson (December 2, 1948 – December 12, 2024) was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1970 to 1975 and in 1977. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, and…
1964–
Wayne Yearwood (born September 22, 1964) is a Canadian former professional and Olympic basketball player, who was with the Canadian national team. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he played for Team Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, along…
after 1954
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover book titled “We Made it Happen” published by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. The cover is green and has gold lettering. The book lists the donations made by chapters and sorrors toward the construction costs of the Ivy Center in Chicago.
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Aly Ndiaye, also known as Webster (born December 15, 1979, in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian hip hop artist, TV show host and historian.
1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA dictionary owned by Jim Vance. The dictionary has a red cover with gold lettering on the spine and cover. The cover reads “Webster’s / Ninth New / Collegiate / Dictionary / A Merriam-Webster.”.
1935–2012
Weldon Drew (April 22, 1935 – November 22, 2012) was the head men's basketball coach at New Mexico State University from 1979 to 1985. He was named to the position in 1979 as the successor to Ken Hayes who left to become head coach at Oral Roberts…
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Weldon W. Edwards was an alderman, deputy sheriff, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1877 and in 1882 and 1883. Described as a quadroon in a contemporary…
1860–1937
Weldy Wilberforce Walker (July 27, 1860 – November 23, 1937), sometimes known as Welday Walker and W. W. Walker, was an American professional baseball player. In 1884, he became the third African American to play Major League Baseball. Walker played at…
1966–
Wendell Tyrone Davis (born January 3, 1966) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for six seasons with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1988 to 1993. He was selected by the Bears in the first…
1951–
Wendell Hudson (born April 16, 1951) is a retired American basketball player and former Associate Athletics Director for Alumni Relations and the former women's basketball program head coach of Alabama Crimson Tide women's basketball. In 1969, Hudson…
1926–2003
Wendell L. Wray (January 30, 1926 – August 24, 2003) was an American librarian and educator who was dedicated to preserving African-American history through oral history. He was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1988, with a break…
1952–
Wendell Talbot Hill III (born 1952) is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland. His research career has largely focused on the intersection of laser physics and quantum science.
Biography
Wendy A. Okolo is a Nigerian-American aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. She…
1966–
Wenda "Wendy" Vereen (born April 24, 1966) is an American former track and field sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200-meter dashes. She was the top ranked national runner in high school in 1983 and 1984. She set personal records of 11.17 seconds for…
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Wenonah Bond Logan, also Wenonah Bond, (born December 18, 1906) was an American scholar and sociologist. She attended Atlanta University, Boston University and the New York School of Social Work. It was in New York at the School of Social Work where in…
1746–1817
Wentworth Cheswill (April 11, 1746 (1746-04-11) – March 8, 1817 (1817-03-08)) was an American assessor, auditor, Justice of the Peace, teacher and Revolutionary War soldier in Newmarket, New Hampshire. From 1768 to his death in 1817, he served in local…
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Wesley J. Hall is a Canadian businessman and entrepreneur, best known as a "Dragon" investor in the Canadian reality television series Dragons' Den. He has served as the 35th chancellor of the University of Toronto since July 1, 2024.
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Westley Watende Omari Moore (born October 15, 1978) is an American politician, businessman, author, and U.S. Army veteran serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023. Moore was born in Maryland and raised primarily in New York. He graduated from…
1945–
Wesley Brown (born 1945) is an American writer, playwright, and professor. He is best known for his books Tragic Magic and Darktown Strutters. Tragic Magic, Brown's first novel, published in 1978, received strong reviews.
1942–2013
Wesley Cornelious McClure (1942 – December 6, 2013) was an American civil rights activist and academic administrator. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, he was one of the "Freshman Four", a group of students at Lane College, who staged a sit-in at a Woolworth's…
1951–
Wesley Howard Henderson (born 1951), is an American architect, educator, and historian. He is an assistant professor at the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, and is a member of the American Institute…
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Wesley Isaac Howard (February 1, 1892 – November 1962) was a violinist and professor in charge of the violin and ensemble departments at the Howard University Conservatory of Music from 1921 to 1927. Howard attended the New England Conservatory of Music,…
1958–
Wesley Albert Kerr (born August 1958) is an English broadcaster, filmmaker, writer, historian, and horticulturalist.
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