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1999
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Homecoming Financial Newtwork” (Text).
1885–1952
Homer B. Roberts (1885–1952) was a graduate of Kansas State Agricultural College and veteran of World War I who was the first black man to attain the rank of lieutenant in the United States Army Signal Corps. He began his auto business by placing ads in…
1941–2003
Homer Banks (August 2, 1941 – April 3, 2003) was an American songwriter, singer and record producer. Although best known by many for his songwriting for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s, some of his own releases from the 1960s are considered classics on…
August 1927
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Homer Laughlin China Company round covered vegetable bowl (2011.12.42a) with cover (2011.12.42b) from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.42a: A Homer Laughlin China Company round vegetable bowl. The bowl is "Yellowstone," or octagonally, shaped,…
1938–2013
Horace Bullard (1938-2013) was an American entrepreneur who founded the New York City based Kansas Fried Chicken chain, and later acquired properties in an ambitious proposal to revitalize Coney Island.
1909–1983
Horace J. Bryant, Jr. (June 29, 1909 – April 13, 1983) was an African American civil rights activist, banking commissioner, and politician from New Jersey. As Commissioner of Banking and Insurance under Governor Richard J. Hughes, he was the first African…
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 – November 16, 2000) was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician. He was considered a member of famed civil rights activist and Nobel Peace…
1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA softcover copy of How to Speak and Pray in Public by J. Vernon Jacobs. The softcover book has an adhesive and stitched binding. The front cover is light and dark brown. At the top two-thirds of the cover is an illustrated, large, dark brown square with…
1985
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “"How to Walk an Elephant": Marilyn Banks, Neisha Folkes, Renee Robinson, & Deborah Manning” (Prints).
1966–
Howard Brown (born c. 1966) is a British former customer services representative and sales ambassador for HBOS plc, which owned both Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank (previously the Halifax Building Society). He is best known for his appearances in…
1933–2016
Howard Francis Sims, (1933–2016), was an American architect, businessperson, and philanthropist, active in Detroit. He founded the architecture firm SDG Associates (formerly Howard Sims & Associates, and later Sim–Varner). Sims helped design the state of…
1964
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover edition of Howard Thurman, Portrait of a Practical Dreamer by Elizabeth Yates. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and deckle page edges. The book’s dust jacket features a black-and-white photograph of Howard Thurman. Thurman…
1918–1991
Huey Jefferson Battle (October 31, 1918 – January 23, 1991) was an American economist who was an economics professor and administrator at Langston University and Virginia State University. He was the first African-American in Oklahoma to earn a doctoral…
1847–1896
Hugh M. Foley (January 25, 1847 – 1896) was an American teacher, storekeeper, minister, farmer, newspaper publisher, and politician in Mississippi. He served as a Wilkinson County Board of Supervisor, and in the Mississippi House of Representatives from…
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Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac (March 26, 1886 – January 30, 1971) was an African-Caribbean member of the United States Merchant Marine. He earned a Master rating in 1918, which should have qualified him to command a ship, but racial discrimination prevented this…
1867–1918
Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 1, 1918) was an American barber, entrepreneur and inventor. He was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been…
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Hussein Samatar (Somali: Xuseen Samatar, Arabic: حسين ساماتار) (1964 – 25 August 2013) was a Somali American politician, banker and community organizer. He established the African Development Center in 2004, which provided microloans and technical…
ca. 1910
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA photographic postcard of an unidentified woman, a banana vendor, from the French Caribbean in a traditional Creole douillette ensemble. She wears a light colored floral grand robe with a foulard shawl around her shoulders and tucked into her waist. Her…
1942–
Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson (born May 16, 1942) is an American politician in the state of South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1970 to 1980, representing Richland County, South Carolina, as a Democrat. He is a lawyer…
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Ian Kyle Conyers (born October 28, 1988) is an American politician and businessman who represented the 4th District of Michigan in the Michigan Senate for one term. Conyers sat on the Economic Development & International Investment, Energy & Technology,…
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Ian Cornelius Thomas (born 15 September 1969), is a British local government official. Having worked in local government for over 20 years, in 2023 Thomas was appointed as the 51st Town Clerk of London and Chief Executive of the City of London Corporation.
April 3, 2024
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with community organizer and activist Ibrahim Mumin. It consists of three versions of digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.16.1.1 and 2025.12.16.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
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Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an…
mid 20th-late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn ice bucket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The small, silver toned bucket has plain interior and exterior walls and two round, flat handles with semicircular cutouts, soldered to each side. The bucket has a narrow base that tapers outward into a wide,…
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