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1964–
Byron Samuels (born May 3, 1964) is a former college basketball head coach. He was previously the head coach for Florida A&M University. Originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Samuels played college basketball at UNC Asheville. A forward, Samuels…
1977–
Byron Douglas Thweatt (born March 21, 1978) is an American former professional football player and college football coach. He was the head football coach Virginia State University in 2015. Thweatt played collegiately as a linebacker at the University of…
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Byron Wallen (born July 1969) is a British jazz trumpeter, composer and educator. He was described by Jazzwise as "one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive".
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Charles Anthony Muse (born April 17, 1958) is an American politician and minister who has served in the Maryland Senate representing the 26th district since 2023, and previously from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the…
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Claudius B. Claiborne is an American professor and former basketball player who was the first African-American to play on the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team. Claiborne grew up in Danville, Virginia where he attended John M. Langston High School.…
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Ulysses "C. C." Grant (born c. 1966) is an American college football coach and former baseball coach. He is the head football coach for the United States Coast Guard Academy, a position he has held since 2020. He previously was an assistant coach for…
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C. C. Vaughn (December 27, 1846 – October 21, 1923) was an American educator and Baptist minister in Ohio and Kentucky. He served in the American Civil War and was promoted to orderly sergeant in his heavy artillery regiment. He was also active in the…
1949–
Cardozie Darnell Jones II (born November 23, 1949) is a retired United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2008 to 2022), and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial…
1924–2000
Charles Eric Lincoln (June 23, 1924 – May 14, 2000) was an American scholar. He was the author of several books, including sociological works such as The Black Church Since Frazier (1974) and Race, Religion and the Continuing American Dilemma (1984), as…
1996–
Christoper McCall "C. J." Sanders (born September 18, 1996) is an American former college football wide receiver and child actor. Sanders has had acting roles in several Hollywood movies and television shows.
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Charles "CJ" Nana Kwabena Sapong (; born December 27, 1988) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. Born in Manassas, Virginia, Sapong was part of the D.C. United youth academy before playing college soccer for the James…
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Clifford "C. J." Spiller Jr. (born August 5, 1987) is an American football coach and former running back and return specialist who is currently the running backs coach at Clemson University. He previously served as a graduate intern at Clemson in 2020.…
1901–1989
James connected Caribbean history, anti-colonial politics, literature and sport in influential works including The Black Jacobins.
1952–
Columbus Lorenzo Whittington (born August 1, 1952) is an American former professional football player and coach. He played as a defensive back for the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL). Whittington served as the head football coach at…
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Claude Randolph Taylor was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tillotson College—now a part of Huston–Tillotson…
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C. Riley Snorton is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black transgender identities. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low…
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C. S. Giscombe (born 1950 Dayton, Ohio) is an African-American poet, essayist, and professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.
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Clarence Steven McGann (June 28, 1951 – May 24, 2023) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu from 2008 to 2011. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, and assumed his duties at…
March 29, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.6.1a, 2011.174.6.1b, 2011.174.6.1c, and 2011.174.6.1d. C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the…
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Charlaine Vivian Stringer (born March 16, 1948) is an American former basketball coach. She holds one of the best coaching records in the history of women's basketball. She was the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team from 1995…
ca. 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 16mm black-and-white, silent home movie film by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with film edge code indicating a year of 1951. The film strip consists of double perforated film stock with frames in the middle. The film…
early 1890s-1908
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA cabinet card photograph of Blanche Randals taken by Wrye Photography in Nashville, Tennessee. Randals is captured from the chest up and is looking forward and slightly to the left. She is wearing a dress with lined ruffles and vertical patterns. The…
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Blaine Cameron Johnson (2 March 1990 – 9 February 2019), known professionally as Cadet, was a British rapper. Johnson began pursuing a career as a rapper in 2011, releasing a number of freestyles through YouTube outlets such as OSM Vision and Link Up TV.…
1982–
Carnell Lamar "Cadillac" Williams (born April 21, 1982) is an American professional football coach and former running back who most recently served as the running backs coach for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He previously…
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