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Alphonso Boyle Davies (born November 2, 2000) is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back, winger, or wing-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Canada national team. Regarded as one of the best left-backs in the world,…
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Alphonso R. Jackson (born September 9, 1945) is an American politician who served as the 13th United States secretary of housing and urban development (HUD) from 2004 to 2008. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on August 28, 2004, and confirmed…
1987–
Alphonso David Jordan (born November 1, 1987, in El Paso, Texas) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the triple jump. He represented his country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing twelfth. His personal bests in the event…
1984–
Alphonso McAuley is an American actor and social media personality. He is best known for playing Cassius Sparks in the Fox sitcom Breaking In and Hutch in the ABC sitcom The Middle.
Dates not recorded
Alphonso M. Sumner was an African American man who opened Nashville, Tennessee's first Black school. Sumner was also a barber, a newspaper publisher, and a Northern abolitionist.
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Alphonso Wilson (December 4, 1860 – 1936) was an African-American activist in Omaha, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. Wilson was born in Bedford, Missouri in 1860. In 1880 he moved to Chicago and in 1886 he moved to Omaha.
1945–2025
Alphonza Gadsden Sr. (December 13, 1945 – January 17, 2025) was an American Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2020, he was bishop ordinary of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Diocese of the Southeast.
Biography
Alphonzo Rawls, also known as Alf, is a goofy-footed American professional skateboarder and footwear designer.
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Alphonzo Terrell (born 1983) is a tech entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO of the social media platform Spill, a Black-owned social platform. Terrell worked in digital and social marketing, including the platform Twitter. Terrell, also known as "Phonz", was…
1964–
Alrick Riley (born 1964) is a BAFTA TV award-winning English television director and writer, and former child actor. He is known for his work on the British series Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) and Hustle; along with his more recent work on the…
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Alrutheus Ambush Taylor (1893–1954) was a historian from Washington D.C. He was a specialist in the history of blacks and segregation, especially during the Reconstruction Era. The Crisis cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history".…
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Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair (22 January 1938 – 9 August 2019), was a Brazilian footballer who played as a left-back and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup. He spent his entire career at Fluminense, for which he…
1923–2019
Altamira Cecília dos Santos (1923 – 2019), also known as Mãe Tatá Oxum Tomilá, was the eighth mãe-de-santo, ialorixá or high priestess of the Casa Branca do Engenho Velho temple of Candomblé Ketu, the largest and most influential branch of the Candomblé…
1939-1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAltar cloths made of white plain woven linen. The rectangular cloths have a wide hemmed edge that is turned to the back and machine stitched. Both altar cloths .1 and .2 are the same.
1939-1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAltar covers of burgundy velvet with gold fringe in two pieces, (a) drapes over the altar and (b) fits over the lid of the kit case. (a): A rectangular altar cover that drapes over the platform of the chaplain's kit case. The front is made of burgundy cut…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Altar in Shrine Room to Shoponna, Alafin's Palace, Osogbo, Western State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
2010-09-27
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal Carousel 22, slide 68.
circa 1981-1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Altar Stand, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
circa 1981-1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Altar with Ovia Staff in Center Among Ukhurhe, Possibly also an Olokun Staff, Benin Museum, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1753-1784
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden altered molding plane. There is evidence of dents, abrasions, and scratches, but the plane has a dark stain that obscures damage from past use. There is uneven staining and a minor checking crack at the stock toe bottom. In relief on the toe,…
unknown
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Alternative Cinema Conference (Third World and Black Caucuses)”.
1999
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Alternative Press: Buring Airlines Magazine Article” (Text; Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)).
Biography
Altha Jeanne Stewart is an American psychiatrist. In 2015, Stewart was recruited by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to establish and direct the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth. While there, she became the first African…
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Althea Maria Brown Edmiston (December 17, 1874 – June 10, 1937) was an African-American teacher and Presbyterian missionary, working in the Belgian Congo for more than thirty years. She compiled the first dictionary and grammar for Bushong, the language of…
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