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Sports

Ethan Laird

2001–

Ethan Benjamin Laird (born 5 August 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL Championship club Birmingham City. Laird is a graduate of Manchester United's youth system and made his first-team debut for the club in a…

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Sports

Ethan Nwaneri

2007–

Ethan Chidiebere Nwaneri (born 21 March 2007) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, on loan from Premier League club Arsenal, and the England U21 national team. Born in…

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Sports

Ethan Pinnock

1993–

Ethan Rupert Pinnock (born 29 May 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Coventry City. Born in England, he plays for the Jamaica national team. Pinnock began his career in non-League football with Dulwich…

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Education & Scholarship

Ethel Jones Mowbray

Biography

Ethel Jones Mowbray (died November 25, 1948) was one of the twenty founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority founded by African-American women. Her legacy was an organization that has helped African-American women succeed in college, prepare for…

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Civil Rights & Community

Ethel Lawrence

1926–1994

Ethel Robinson Lawrence (March 16, 1926 - July 19, 1994) was a civil rights activist who was known as the "Rosa Parks of affordable housing." Lawrence was the lead plaintiff in the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, litigation for affordable housing, which led to…

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Civil Rights & Community

Ethel Mae Mathews

Biography

Ethel Mae Mathews (also spelled Ethel Mae Matthews; 1932 or 1933 – March 14, 2005) was an American welfare rights and tenants' rights activist and community organizer in Atlanta, Georgia. She founded, and was the first president of, the Atlanta Welfare…

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Biography & Culture

Ethel Martin Bolden

1918–2002

Ethel Evangeline Martin Bolden (December 14, 1918 – October 20, 2002) was an African-American librarian, educator, historian, and community leader. Bolden educated generations of residents in Columbia, South Carolina. Bolden established libraries in…

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Civil Rights & Community

Ethel Minor

1922–2012

Ethel Minor (November 26, 1922 – June 25, 2012) was an American political figure and civil rights activist. Minor was raised in Columbus, Texas and returned to San Antonio in 1944 to work at Kelly Air Force Base. During her time as a civilian working on…

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Civil Rights & Community

Ethel Sawyer Adolphe

Biography

Ethel Sawyer Adolphe is a civil rights activist and sociology professor. She is known for her role in the Sit-in movement and contributions to the Sociology of Black Americans.

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Sports

Ethon Archer

2002–

Ethon Emmanuel Archer (born 28 August 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-winger for EFL League One club Bromley, on loan from EFL League One club Luton Town. Archer came through the Kinetic Academy as a teenager and spent time…

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Music

Etta James

1938–2012

Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter. Starting her career in 1954, James frequently performed in Nashville's R&B clubs, collectively known in the 1940s, 1950s and…

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Film & Television

Etta Moten Barnett

1901–2004

Etta Moten Barnett (November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004) was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess. She created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen. After her…

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Biography & Culture

Eugene Callender

1926–2013

Dr Eugene S. Callender (January 21, 1926 – November 2, 2013) was an American pastor and activist in the civil rights movement. In 1970, he began co-hosting, with Joan Harris, the series Positively Black, the first major Black show on NBC, featuring Black…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Eugene Gilliard sews sweetgrass baskets, Mt. Pleasant, SC

2004-2014

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A black and white digital image of Eugene Gilliard weaving plant material into a basket. The image is of his hands, which are resting on his knee and weaving fibers. He is holding a metal tool in his left hand. 24.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.6
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Literature

Eugene Gordon

1891–1974

Eugene Gordon (November 23, 1891 – March 18, 1974) was a journalist, editor, fiction writer, World War I officer, and social activist. He cofounded and edited the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Saturday Evening Quill and edited a magazine put out by…

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Sports

Eugene Hairston

1929–2014

Eugene "Silent" Hairston (July 1, 1929 – November 24, 2014) was the first American professional Black Deaf boxer. He was born in Harlem, New York in 1929 and became deaf at 1 year old due to a case of spinal meningitis. Growing up, he went to P.S. 47 until…

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Science & Inventions

Eugene M. DeLoatch

1936–

Eugene M. DeLoatch (born 1936) in Piermont, New York, is an American academic in engineering education. DeLoatch's career has sought to expose historically marginalized communities to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). DeLoatch…

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Business & Enterprise

Eugene P. Booze

1878–1939

Eugene Parker Booze (July 14, 1878 – November 7, 1939) was an American businessman, planter, political organizer, and Black community leader from Clarksdale, Mississippi and later Mound Bayou, Mississippi. He was one of the wealthiest African American men…

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Civil Rights & Community

Eugene Rivers

1950–

Eugene "Rib" F. Rivers III (born April 9, 1950) is a conservative American activist, and Pentecostal minister based in Boston, Massachusetts. Rivers is known for his work developing programs that reduce urban violence. He has also been both an activist and…

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Sports & Achievement

Eugene Smith (baseball)

1917–2011

Eugene F. "Gene" Smith (April 23, 1916 – May 25, 2011) was an American pitcher who played for several Negro league baseball teams between 1938 and 1951. Listed at 6' 1", 185 lb., Smith was a switch hitter and threw right-handed. Smith was known as a…

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Historical photographs & documents

Eulogy to Walter Ernest Merrick a devoted member Of The Karma Club delivered by Jerry Adamson [Photocopy]

1961

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Cataloged as “Eulogy to Walter Ernest Merrick a devoted member Of The Karma Club delivered by Jerry Adamson [Photocopy]” (Text).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2018.23_ref3
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Journalism

Eunetta T. Boone

1955–2019

Eunetta T. Boone (May 16, 1955 – March 20, 2019) was an American television writer and producer. She was the creator and writer of several television series. At the time of her death, she was serving as the executive producer and showrunner for the third…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Eunice Cook and Mary McLeod Bethune standing in front of fireplace in domestic interior

ca. 1945-50; printed 2000

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A black-and-white photograph of two women standing, arms around each other's backs. Both are looking at the camera and smiling. The woman on the left (Eunice Cook) is wearing a dress with a satin sash around the middle, flower buttons, and a flower brooch…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.48
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Civil Rights & Community

Eunice Davis

1800–1901

Eunice Russ Ames Davis (October 22, 1800 – 1901) was an American abolitionist and one of the founding members of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. In 1896, The New York Times named her the "oldest living female abolitionist in the world". She was one…

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