Phi Beta Sigma cardigan sweater from the Alpha Epsilon Chapter at Johnson C. Smith University. This white and blue knit cardigan has multiple white and blue patches. The white cardigan has a v-neck, opens at the center front, and closes with six white…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.74.2
Carey Isiah Bailey (born January 16, 1969) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. Bailey served as the head football coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2010, compiling a record of 8–36.
Carey K. Jenkins (died 1987) was an American architect active in the Los Angeles area in the mid-20th century. He was one of few black graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) School of Architecture. After graduating from USC in 1943, he…
Carl Allen (born April 25, 1961) is an American jazz drummer. Allen attended William Paterson University. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, George Coleman, Phil Woods, the Benny Green Trio, and Rickie…
Carl Andrews was a member of the New York State Senate from Brooklyn from 2002 to 2006. A Democrat, he represented Crown Heights, Flatbush, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Heights. A graduate of Medgar Evers College – with an MA in…
Carl Compton Bell (October 28, 1947 – August 2, 2019) was an American professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bell was a National Institute of Mental Health international researcher, an author of more than 575…
Carl Theodore Boles (October 31, 1934 – April 8, 2022) was an American professional baseball player whose career included seven years in minor league baseball, six in Japan, and a 19-game trial in the Major Leagues for the 1962 San Francisco Giants. He…
Carl Glennis Roberts Sr., MD (1886–1950) was an American surgeon, gynecologist, and civil right leader, active in Chicago. He was one of the first African Americans to be elected to the American College of Surgeons; he was also a former president of the…
Carl L. Hart (born October 30, 1966) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist who is the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research on drug abuse and drug addiction, his advocacy…
Carl Eugene Kimmons (April 10, 1920 – August 4, 2016) was an American naval officer and World War II submariner who served in the United States Navy from 1940 to 1970. Kimmons was the first person who had enlisted as a mess attendant to serve in every…
Carl Lee III (born February 6, 1961) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round of the 1983 NFL draft, and played with the…
Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper…
Carl Maxey was an American trial lawyer and civil rights leader and former collegiate athlete. First rising to prominence as a standout boxer nicknamed "King Carl" for Gonzaga University, he went undefeated with a 32–0 record in his college career and…
Carl McClellan Hill (July 27, 1907, Norfolk, Virginia – April 4, 1995, Hampton, Virginia) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Kentucky State University from 1962 to 1975, and as the 11th president of Hampton…
Carl Phillips (born 23 July 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is professor emeritus of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.
Carl Douglass Upchurch (1950, Philadelphia – May 2, 2003, Bexley, Ohio) was an American activist, author and educator. His commitment to education, civic and urban issues, and political justice earned him a national reputation. He was portrayed by Omar…
Carla Adriana da Silva Santos, better known as Carla Akotirene (born 1980), is an activist, researcher, author and columnist on the topic of black feminism in Brazil. She is an assistant professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), and is…
Carla L. Chapman Sibley (born Carla Chapman) is an American former basketball player for Ohio State University, Ohio, United States. She played on the girls' basketball team at St. Vincent-St. Mary's, preceding fellow St. Vincent alumni, like Jerome Lane…
Carla Denise Cotwright-Williams is an American mathematician who works as a Technical Director and Data Scientist for the United States Department of Defense. She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of…
Carla Harvey (born October 4, 1976) is an American musician, best known as a former co-vocalist of the metal band Butcher Babies. She landed her first job in Hollywood as an entertainment reporter for the Playboy Channel, and appeared on many popular…
Carla Diane Hayden (born August 10, 1952) is an American librarian who served as the 14th librarian of Congress. Hayden was both the first African American and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016, she was the first professional librarian…
Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) is an American former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the 2006 murders of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn…
Carla Williams (born 1965) is an American photographer. She worked as a photography curator and professor before opening at store in New Orleans. She was noticed by Paul Sepuya after posting her old photographs on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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