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William Henry Steward (July 26, 1847 – January 3, 1935) was a civil rights activist from Louisville, Kentucky. In February 1876, he was appointed the first black letter carrier in Kentucky. He was the leading layman of the General Association of Negro…
1864–1933
William Henry Twine (December 10, 1864 – October 8, 1933) was an African-American lawyer and newspaper publisher who settled in Oklahoma. Twine is noted for having published the Muskogee Cimeter in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was among the earliest…
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William Hicks (April 9, 1869 – July 18, 1954) was an American Baptist pastor, academic administrator, writer, and educator. He authored the book, History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804 to 1914 published in 1915. Hicks was the founding principal of…
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William Hooper Councill (July 12, 1848 – April 9, 1909) was an American former slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama.
1873–1956
William Hunter Dammond (October 26, 1873 – December 8, 1956) was an American civil engineer. He studied civil engineering at the Western University of Pennsylvania and, in 1893, was the first African American to graduate from that institution. As a black…
1924–2013
William J. Cousins (January 25, 1924 – July 31, 2013) was an American sociologist who led international urban community development, taught sociology and race relations at several colleges, and wrote a number of books and articles on international…
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William J. Simmons (June 29, 1849 – October 30, 1890) was an American Baptist pastor, educator, author, and activist. He was a former enslaved person who became the second president of Simmons College of Kentucky (1880–1890), for whom the school was later…
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William J. Watkins Sr. (c. 1803–1858) was an African-American abolitionist, educator, and minister from Baltimore, Maryland.
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William Jefferson White (December 25, 1831 – April 17, 1913) was an American civil rights leader, minister, educator, and journalist. He was the founder of Harmony Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, in 1869, and of other churches. In 1867 he helped found…
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William Jacob Knox Jr. (January 5, 1904 - July 9, 1995) was an American chemist at Columbia University in New York City and one of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project. Knox held an unprecedented position, serving as the…
1874–1944
William Jasper Hale (September 26, 1874 – October 5, 1944) was an American academic administrator. He was the first president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1912 to 1943.
1921–2010
William Joshua Blackmon (20 April 1921 – 8 February 2010), also known as Prophet Blackmon, was an American street preacher and a well known Milwaukee artist. Jeffrey R. Hayes, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, described him…
1935–
William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, and an author of works on urban sociology, race, and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th…
1947–
William K. Head (born November 15, 1947) is an American former football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as head football coach at Fayetteville State University from 1981 to 1984 and at Kentucky State University from 1987 until 1989,…
1846–1885
William L. Copeland (1846 - December 30, 1885) was an American police officer, government official, and state legislator in Arkansas. He was born in Ohio and studied at Oberlin College in Ohio. On March 7, 1865, at the end of the American Civil War, he…
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William Levi Dawson (April 26, 1886 – November 9, 1970) was an American politician and lawyer who represented a Chicago, Illinois district for more than 27 years in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1943 to his death in office in…
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William L. Wilson is an American chemist. He serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Harvard University. At Bell Labs, Wilson collaborated with 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awardees, Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi, in…
September 23, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.58.1a and 2011.174.58.1b. William Strickland, Ph. D. recalls growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, attending Boston Latin High School and Harvard University, and serving as a Marine. He remembers his…
1852–1929
William Lane Watkins (1852-1929) was an African American physician and schoolteacher. He practiced medicine and was the teacher and principal of Mt. Nebo School for Colored Children in Prince George's County, Maryland, and was the first black man to…
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William Lee Taylor (1854 – January 27, 1915), also known as W. L. Taylor, was an American bank president, Baptist minister, teacher, and farmer in Virginia. He served as the Grand Master of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers (or simply True…
1894–1965
William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894 – November 3, 1965) was an American scholar, lecturer and pioneering African history scholar He was the older brother of real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry, uncle of award-winning playwright Lorraine…
1793–1836
William Levington (1793 – May 15, 1836) was an African-American clergyman and teacher. The third African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he established the first African-American congregation south of the…
1927–2019
William Loren Katz (June 2, 1927 – October 25, 2019) was an American teacher, historian and author of 40 books on African-American history, including a number of titles for young adult readers. He was particularly noted for his research and writing on the…
1928–2022
William Lucas (January 15, 1928 – May 30, 2022) was an American politician. When he was orphaned in his early teens (his West Indian immigrant parents died within a year of each other), he went to live with and was raised by an aunt. He attended Morris…
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