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1952–
Carole Catlin Smitherman (born 1952) is a retired American politician and jurist, serving as the Dean of Miles Law School. Smitherman served in 2009 as the 31st Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and spent several years as a member of the City Council before…
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Carole Ward Allen is an American politician, professor, and political consultant. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and serves as the chief executive officer of CWA Partners, LLC. As a mass transportation executive in the State of California, Ward…
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Caroletta C. Alicea is an American politician. She was elected a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the 2020 election. She served as a trustee of the Capital City Public Charter School.
1875–1971
Caroline B. Williams (1875 - December 18, 1971) was an American suffragist and public school teacher. Williams was born in Washington, D.C., in 1875 and lived for many years in Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught at Howard High School.
1946–
Caroline Hunter (born September 5, 1946, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American activist, chemist and educator who has served on the Cambridge Public School Committee since 2022. In her early career, she co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers…
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Caroline Rebecca Le Count (c. 1846 – January 24, 1923; often written as LeCount) was an American educator and civil rights activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is often compared to later activist Rosa Parks for her early efforts to desegregate…
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Caroline Randall Williams (born August 24, 1987) is an American author, poet and academic best known for the 2015 cookbook Soul Food Love, co-written with her mother, author Alice Randall, and published by Random House. In February, 2016, Soul Food Love…
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Caroline Still Anderson (November 1, 1848 – June 1 or 2, 1919) was an American physician, educator, and activist. She was a pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the…
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Caroline Xavier is the Chief of the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE) since August 2022. She is a daughter of migrants from Haiti who went to study in Canada and immigrated there. She graduated at the University of Ottawa with a degree…
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Carolivia Herron (born Carol Olivia Herron; July 22, 1947) is an American writer of children's and adult literature, and a scholar of African-American Judaica.
1944–
Carolyn Adams (born August 16, 1943) is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. In 1965, she joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company (PTDC), being the first and only African-American member at the time, and she remained a dancer there until 1982. She…
1944–
Carolyn Barley Britton (born 13 September 1944) is an African-American medical doctor known for her national health care advocacy and work in neurological complications of HIV and infectious diseases. She is a full professor at Columbia University College…
1953–
Carolyn Baxter (born 1953) is an African-American poet, playwright, and musician. Baxter is from Harlem, New York. She was a participant in the Black Panthers School Breakfast Program.
1946–
Carolyn Branch Brooks (born July 8, 1946) is an American microbiologist known for her research in immunology, nutrition, and crop productivity. In 2018, she was named a faculty member emerita at University of Maryland Eastern Shore where she was an…
1934–1987
Carolyn L. Cannon-Alfred (born August 16, 1934 – August 29, 1987) was an American pharmacologist who established a medical clinic in South-central Los Angeles. She was an assistant professor of pharmacology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a…
1960–
Carolyn Crump (born 1960) is an American quilting artist whose work focuses on African American culture. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Michigan State University African American Quilt Collection.
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Carolyn Finney (born 1959), is a storyteller, author, artist, educator, and currently a scholar-in-residence in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College. Finney's work reveals how nature and the environment are racialized in America.
1948–
Carolyn L. Mazloomi (née Carolyn Louise Stewart; born August 22, 1948) is an American curator, quilter, author, art historian, and aerospace engineer. She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts. Her quilts are…
1946–
Carolyn Ray Boone Mahoney (born 1946) is an American mathematician who served as president of Lincoln University of Missouri. Her research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, and matroids.
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Carolyn Bradshaw Morgan is an American statistician and applied mathematician, one of the first African-American undergraduates at Vanderbilt University, and the former chair of the mathematics department at Hampton University.
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Carolyn Beatrice Parker (November 18, 1917 – March 17, 1966) was a research physicist and educator whose scientific contributions helped expand our understandings of physics and aircraft radio technologies during WWII. After obtaining her undergraduate…
1966–
Carolyn Arlene Peck (born January 22, 1966) is an American television sportscaster and former college basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's basketball teams of Purdue University and the University of Florida, and also the first head…
1917–2001
Carolyn Marie Plasket Barrow (January 31, 1917 – November 11, 2001), also known as Carolyn Plaskett, was an American-born illustrator, international scholar, and the wife of the then Prime Minister of Barbados. She was born in Orange, New Jersey, and was…
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Carolyn Moxley Rouse (born c. 1965) is an American anthropologist, professor and filmmaker. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University and president of the American Anthropological Association.
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