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William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts, who worked for the integration of schools and public facilities in the state. Writing for…
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William Costin (c. 1780 - May 31, 1842) was a free African-American activist and scholar who successfully challenged District of Columbia slave codes in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.
1949–
William Crain (born June 20, 1949) is an American film and television director. He was one of the first black filmmakers from a major film school to achieve commercial success. Crain was born in Columbus, Ohio.
1944–
William Donald Bradford (born June 19, 1944) is an American economist who is Professor Emeritus of Finance and former Dean of the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He is a former president of the National Economic Association and…
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William David Chappelle (November 16, 1857 – June 15, 1925) was an American educationalist and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Chappelle served as president of Allen University, a historically Black university in Columbia, South Carolina,…
1938–1998
William David Chappelle III (December 16, 1938 – July 29, 1998) was an American professor of music and a civil rights organizer in Ohio. He spent much of his career at Antioch College, where he served as dean of students.
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William Decker "W. D." Johnson (November 15, 1869 – June 17, 1936) was an American Bishop and educator. He was the 42nd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the founder of the community of Archery, Georgia, and the founder of Johnson…
1930–2014
William Garfield Dumpson (February 12, 1930 – July 15, 2014) was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues. Dumpson was raised and attended school in Port Washington, New York. He was a member of the Indianapolis Clowns in 1950, Homestead Grays,…
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William E. Benson (1873–1915), commonly known as Will Benson, was an American educator, real estate developer, and businessman. He was known for founding the Kowaliga Academic and Industrial Institute, and the Dixie Industrial Company in Kowaliga, Alabama.
1939–1991
William E. Gardner Jr. (March 13, 1939 – April 15, 1991) served as president of Savannah State College from 1989 until 1991.
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William Eve Holmes Sr. (January 22, 1856 – February 14, 1931) was an American Baptist minister and educator and president of Central City College (later known as Georgia Baptist College) in Macon, Georgia, for 25 years. Before his term at Central City, he…
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William E. Matthews (July 1845 - May 2, 1894) was an African-American lawyer, financier, and civil rights activist in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington DC. He was active in promoting education for freedmen during and after the Civil War. He was very…
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William Edward White (October 1860 – March 29, 1937) was a 19th-century American baseball player. He played as a substitute in one professional baseball game for the Providence Grays of the National League, on June 21, 1879. Work by the Society for…
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William Fletcher Penn (January 16, 1871 in New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia – May 31, 1934) was a prominent Black-American medical doctor in Atlanta, Georgia and a founding member of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement…
1852–
William F. Thompson (1852 – ?) was a lawyer, law school teacher, justice of the peace, tax assessor, state legislator, and delegate to Florida's 1885 Constitutional Convention.
1909–1968
William Thomas Valerio Fontaine (English: /fɒnˈteɪn/; born William Thomas Fontaine; December 2, 1909 – December 29, 1968) was an American philosopher. Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1967, he was an American professor of philosophy…
1848–1920
William Frank Powell (June 26, 1848 – January 23, 1920) was an American diplomat and educator. Powell was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti from 1897 to 1905. At the same time Powell served as the chargé d'affaires in the Dominican…
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William Gustavus Allen (c. 1820 – 1 May 1888) was an African-American academic, intellectual, and lecturer. For a time he co-edited The National Watchman, an abolitionist newspaper. While studying law in Boston he lectured widely on abolition, equality,…
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William Gay (born January 1, 1985) is an American professional football coach and former cornerback who is the cornerbacks coach for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals…
1933–2002
William F. Gibson (November 23, 1933 – May 2, 2002) was an African-American dentist who served as chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1985 to 1995. Gibson was a graduate of North Carolina A&T State…
1937–1996
William Henry "Rock" Glosson (January 18, 1937 – October 9, 1996) was an American gridiron football player, coach of football and golf, and college athletics administrator. He was the seventh head football coach at Mississippi Valley State College—now…
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William Grandstaff (~1830s or 1840s – 1901) was an American cowboy and frontiersman who lived in Ohio before settling in Utah Territory and Colorado. Born into slavery, verified information about Grandstaff's life is sporadic, but he's believed to have…
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William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works. Born in…
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William Henry Crogman (May 5, 1841 – October 16, 1931) was a Dutch Caribbean and American pioneering educator and classicist at Clark University of Atlanta in the United States. The William H. Crogman School in Atlanta is named for him. He was the 11th…
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