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1852–1918
Bouchet completed his doctorate in physics at Yale in 1876 and spent decades teaching science to Black students in Philadelphia.
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Edward Craig Mazique (1911–1987) was a pioneer in the medical community especially among African Americans. Edward Craig Mazique was a native of Natchez, Miss. He graduated from Natchez College before leaving Mississippi to pursue an undergraduate degree…
1908–1993
Edward Estis Holloway (June 12, 1908 – April 8, 1993) was a Philadelphia cardiologist who also served as the last elected city coroner. Holloway was born in 1908 in Philadelphia, the son of Daniel Holloway and Margaret Estis Holloway. Daniel Holloway was a…
1972–
Edward Jones-Imhotep is an American historian of science and technology, and professor and director at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard…
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Edward Marion Augustus Chandler (April 10, 1887 – March 22, 1973) was the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry while studying at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was a founding faculty member at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
1874–1935
Edward Mayfield Boyle (24 June 1878 – 21 November 1936) was a Sierra Leone Creole medical doctor who attended Harvard Medical School. Boyle, was one of the first West Africans to attend Howard University College of Medicine and was the maternal uncle of…
1940–2020
Edward Browning "E. B." McClain (April 29, 1940 – November 9, 2020) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of both the Alabama Senate (1995 through 2009) and the Alabama House of Representatives (1987 through 1994), before being…
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Edward Swain Hope (August 28, 1901 – June 8, 1990) was an African-American engineer and university educator. A World War II volunteer and veteran, Hope was, in his postwar service, the first African-American to hold the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the…
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Edward S. Porter (October 19, 1848 – June 13, 1902) was a physician in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a physician for the Louisville city sanitary force, the Orphan's home, at the nearby insane asylum, and at Simmons College of Kentucky.
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Thaddeus Barleycorn-Barber (1 July 1865 – January 1948) was a medical doctor who was born in Santa Isabel, capital of the Spanish colony on the island of Fernando Po in West Africa. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1892. He was one of the first…
Biography
Edward E. Thomas Jr. is an American plasma physicist and a Professor of Physics at Auburn University. He currently serves as the university's associate dean for research and graduate studies.
1921–1986
Edward William Hawthorne (November 30, 1921 – October 7, 1986) was an American cardiologist and academic administrator. After getting his degrees at Howard University and University of Illinois Chicago, he returned to Howard as part of the faculty and was…
1884–1930
Edward Willard Bates, M.D. (November 5, 1884 – August 7, 1930) was a prominent African-American who served as a physician and surgeon in the 368th Ambulance Company in 317th Sanitary (Medical) Train of the 92nd Division during World War I. For his bravery…
1850–1918
Edwin Archer Randolph (c. 1850- unknown) was an African-American lawyer, politician, and journalist from Virginia. In 1880, Randolph became the first African-American to graduate from Yale Law School. In July 1880, Randolph was the first African-American…
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Edwin C. J. T. Howard (Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard (October 21, 1846 – May 10, 1912) was an American physician and one of the first black graduates of Harvard Medical School in 1869. After graduating from Harvard, Dr. Howard worked in Charleston,…
1867–1932
Edwin Caldwell (August 12, 1867 – 1932) was an American physician who served patients in Central North Carolina around the turn of the 20th century. Caldwell is credited with discovering one of the first effective treatments for pellagra.
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Edwin Dorn (born 26 March 1945) is a political scientist who served as dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from July 1997 to December 2004. He previously served as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from March 1994 to…
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Edwin Bancroft Henderson (November 24, 1883 – February 3, 1977), was an American educator and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pioneer. Called the "Father of Black Basketball", he introduced basketball to African Americans…
1913–1996
Edwin Roberts Russell (1913 – 1996) was an American chemist. He was one of the few African American to work on the Manhattan Project, researching the isolation and extraction of plutonium-239 from uranium at Chicago's Met Lab.
1913–1994
Effie O'Neal Ellis (June 15, 1913 – July 5, 1994) was an American pediatrician, child medical care consultant, and an activist for infant health and maternal education. Ellis was the first African-American woman to hold an executive position in the…
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Effie T. Brown is a film and television producer known for such films as Rocket Science, Real Women Have Curves, Everyday People, Desert Blue, Dear White People, and But I'm a Cheerleader. She is seen in the fourth season of Project Greenlight as a…
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Egungun crouches in the street as others dance around him".
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Egungun crouches in the street as others dance around him".
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Egungun dance in the street as crowd looks on".
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