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Camay Calloway Murphy (née Camay Calloway; January 15, 1927 – November 12, 2024) was an American educator, author, and art impresario. The daughter of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, Murphy was one of the first African Americans to teach in white…
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Cameron Renee Brooks (born April 17, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Texas Longhorns. She also…
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Cameron Ellis Lynch (born August 4, 1993) is an American former professional football linebacker. He played college football for the Syracuse Orange. He signed with the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2015.
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Cameron Rowland (born 1988) is an American conceptual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and acclaimed for its structural analytic approach to addressing issues of American slavery, mass incarceration, and reparations. Rowland graduated…
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Camilla Ella Williams (October 18, 1919 – January 29, 2012) was an American operatic soprano who performed nationally and internationally. After studying with renowned teachers in New York City, she was the first African American to receive a regular…
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Camille A. Brown is an American dancer, choreographer, director, and dance educator. She is a five-time Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer who began her career as a professional dancer with Ronald K. Brown's/Evidence company in the early…
Biography
Camille Angela Clare is an American obstetrician and gynecologist. She is the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Professor at the College of Medicine and the School of Public Health.
1933–2019
Camille Josephine Billops (August 12, 1933 – June 1, 2019) was an African-American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist, printmaker, and educator.
1964–
Camille Althea McKayle-Stolz (born 1964) is an Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and is the current Provost of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). She holds a PhD in mathematics from Lehigh University and taught undergraduates at Lafayette…
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Camille Lucie Nickerson (March 30, 1888 – April 27, 1982) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, collector, and Howard University professor from 1926 to 1962. She was influenced by Creole folksongs of Louisiana, which she arranged and sang.
Biography
Camisha Russell is professor and department head of philosophy at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Russell specializes in Critical Philosophy of Race, Bioethics, and Feminist Theory.
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Camonghne Felix (pronounced kuh-MOHN; born 1992) is an American writer, poet, and communications strategist. Her debut poetry collection, Build Yourself a Boat, was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. Felix is a professor of writing at The New School.
October 2, 1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis brief news article from the San Francisco Chronicle discusses the findings of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women when members contacted over 1500 eligible voters to find out why they were not registered to vote. This…
1985–
Candice Davis Price (née Davis, born October 26, 1985) is an American hurdler, On Air Personality, and an Performance Coach. She won gold for the 100 meters hurdles during the 2007 NACAC Championships. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Candice attended…
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Candice Iloh (stylized in lowercase as candice iloh) is a queer, first-generation Nigerian-American writer, poet, educator and dancer. Their debut novel, Every Body Looking, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and…
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Candida Alvarez (born 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for her paintings and drawings. Alvarez has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Her work…
September 19, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.52.1a, 2011.174.52.1b, 2011.174.52.1c, 2011.174.52.1d, and 2011.174.52.1e. Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville,…
1946–
Candy Dawson Boyd (born August 8, 1946) is an American writer, activist, and educator. She is an author of more than six children's books focused on African-American youth.
1947–
Alonzo Harris (born September 17, 1947) is a former Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros just at the beginning of the 1967 season (April 13-April 27). He had been signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent before the 1966…
ca. 1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black painted, wooden, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity cane, wrapped entirely in black plastic tape. The cane has a black rubber cane tip. The cane has been wrapped in tape from just above the cane tip to the bottom curve of the handle.
2011-2014
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity cane wrapped in red plastic tape and decorated with white stripe and white and red stripe decals wrapped along the body of the cane, forming red, diamond shapes. The front of the cane has been decorated with white…
1984–
Canisia Lubrin (born 1984) is a writer, critic, professor, poet and editor. Originally from St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Canopy at Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of University of Ibadan Celebration, Ibadan, Western State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCard honoring Philip Goodwin Freelon, School of Design North Carolina State University. The white square card has black printed text in the center which reads [for outstanding work / in architectural design / PHILIP GOODWIN FREELON / SCHOOL OF DESIGN /…
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