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Wesley Lowery (born 1990) is an American journalist who has worked at American University, CBS News, and The Washington Post. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016. In 2017, he became a…
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Dr. Wesley Muhammad Ph.D. is an American author and a minister in the Nation of Islam. President of the Black Student Union in high school, Muhammad attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he joined the 5 Percenters and then became a Fruit of Islam…
[ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on verso reads: "Wesleyan Church Accra with Government school behind.".
Biography
Col. West Alexander Hamilton (c. 1886 – 1985) was an American teacher, military officer, newspaper publisher, and civic leader. He served as a United States Army's colonel, and was a veteran of World War I and World War II. He had served for 22 years on…
[19--]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPostcard image of an urban street, crowds of people, and horse-drawn vehicles. A European man is in an open carriage on the right. Text on front reads: "203; Afrique Occidentale (Senegal) - DAKAR; Les Ecoles rue de Thiong un jour d'election; M. le…
1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWest Virginia Indoor Games first place medal for the Running Broad Jump event awarded to Eulace Peacock in 1935. The medal consists of a gold toned pin holding a yellow and blue striped ribbon. The pin has a “c” clasp closure on the back and a bar that…
1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWest Virginia Indoor Games third place medal for the Sprint Series event awarded to Eulace Peacock in 1935. The medal consists of a gold toned pin holding a yellow and blue striped ribbon. The pin has a “c” clasp closure on the back and a bar that hold the…
ca. 1966-1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA yellow booklet guide to mixed beverages for Delta Air Lines titled “What Every Stewardess Should Know,” belonging to Delta Air Lines stewardess Casey Grant. This seventeen (17) page stapled booklet, created by National Distillers and Chemical…
2019; printed 2020
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA red hardcover, Chinese-language edition of What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, written by Stephen A. Schwarzman and owned by General Colin L. Powell. The book is covered by red cloth and features embossed Chinese characters in gold on…
1906
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA reference book of people who graduated from Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Missouri. The book consists of black print on yellowed pages. The cover is green with black print. The book has one hundred and twenty pages and includes some photographs.
11-5-1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “What the Rap is About” (Text).
1903
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA second edition, hardcover, octavo book of When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar with black and white photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. The book is covered in brown cloth binding with gilt title on front and spine. The front cover has…
1903
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition, hardcover, octavo book of When Malinday Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The book is covered in brown cloth binding with gilt title on front and spine. The front cover has a decorative design of gold trellis with green vines and red flowers…
Biography
Whiquitta "Kee" Tobar is an American lawyer, podcaster, and a former college basketball player at Alabama A&M University. In 2012, Tobar was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
1968-1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGa) White iron headboard for bedframe. Frame of headboard comprised of hollow rods with rounded corners at top. Between either end of footboard are two smaller horizontal rods, one towards top and one towards bottom. Connected between the horizontal rods…
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWhite plastic cup commemorating the 2013 Bayou Classic. The white cup has black text at the top of the front which reads [SEE YOU 11/3-/2013!!] and black text at the bottom which reads [40-YEAR RIVALRY]. There is a stylized number “40” in the center in…
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWhite plastic cup commemorating the 2013 Bayou Classic. The white cup has black text at the top of the front which reads [SEE YOU 11/3-/2013!!] and black text at the bottom which reads [40-YEAR RIVALRY]. There is a stylized number “40” in the center in…
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Whitefield J. McKinlay (September 15, 1852 – December 14, 1941) was a teacher, state legislator, and real estate businessman who lived in Charleston, South Carolina and then Washington D.C. The Library of Congress has a glass plate negative portrait of…
Biography
Whitney Battle-Baptiste is an American historical archaeologist of African and Cherokee descent. She is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University. Battle-Baptiste's…
1922–1997
Whitney L. Van Cleve (April 6, 1922 – January 21, 1997) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Tuskegee University from 1955 to 1963, Alabama State University from 1964 to 1968, Hampton University from 1969 to 1973,…
1897–1975
Whitney M. Young Sr. (1897–1975) was an American educator, from Kentucky. He was the father of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr.
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Whittier Cinclair Atkinson (April 23, 1893 – January 2, 1991) was an American general practitioner who founded the Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1936 and closed in 1978, the hospital was established to meet the…
1955
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA reprinted edition of an editorial titled "Who Is Blocking Federal Aid To School Construction?" written by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) article and published in the Monday, July 18, 1955 edition of The New York…
2018
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed hardcover copy of a first-edition children's book with the title Who Made My Stuff? Miles Learns About Design. The book's front cover is teal and features an illustration of a Black boy below the title. [WHO MADE MY STUFF?] is printed above the…
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