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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.
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Carolina Contreras is a Dominican-American entrepreneur, activist, and blogger, best known as the founder of Miss Rizos. She advocates for Afro-Latinas wearing hair naturally instead of chemically relaxing their hair, stemming from her own experiences with…
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Caroline Chikezie (born 19 February 1974) is a British Nigerian actress, best known for playing Sasha Williams in As If, and Elaine Hardy in Footballers' Wives. In 2016, she gained attention in Nigeria playing the title role in the Nigerian series The…
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…
1826–1908
Caroline Remond Putnam (c. 1826–1908) was an African-American businesswoman and abolitionist in Salem, Massachusetts. Along with two of her sisters, she owned and operated the largest wig factory in the state, making her mark on the growing field of…
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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…
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe short animated film, I, Destini tells the story of having an incarcerated brother from Destini Riley’s perspective (at the time she was 14). The film is a collaboration between her and filmmaker Nicholas Pilarski. Frame animations are the products of a…
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Carolyn W. Colvin (born May 27, 1942) is an American public administrator who served as Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2013 to 2017 and again from 2024 to 2025. On June 20, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated her to serve…
1940–2023
Carolyn Long Banks (October 30, 1940 – April 12, 2023) was an American civil rights activist and politician who helped found the Atlanta Student Movement and was the first black woman to serve on the Atlanta City Council.
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Carolyn Stanford Taylor is an American educator who served as the 27th Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2019 to 2021. Stanford Taylor was the first African American to serve as Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction. Her…
1946–
Carolyn Wright-Sanders (born September 27, 1946) is an American lawyer, jurist and a former chief justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas, serving in that position from November 17, 2009, to December 31, 2018.
1938
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA booklet copy of Carpet-Bag Misrule in Louisiana: The Tragedy of the Reconstruction Era Following the War Between the States," issued September 1, 1938 by the Louisiana State Museum. The cover features the title in gothic font at the top: [Carpet-Bag…
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Carrie A. Tuggle (May 28, 1858 – November 5, 1924) was an American educator, philanthropist, and social activist. After emancipation, she sought for equality in education, and the right to exercise voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama. She established…
1903–2001
Best challenged segregation in Nova Scotia theatres and founded The Clarion, using journalism to campaign for civil rights across Canada.
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Carolina Mercer Langston (January 18, 1873 – June 3, 1938) was an American writer and actress. She was the mother of poet, playwright and social activist Langston Hughes.
September 26, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.56.1a, 2011.174.56.1b, 2011.174.56.1c, 2011.174.56.1d, 2011.174.56.1e, 2011.174.56.1f, 2011.174.56.1g, 2011.174.56.1h, and 2011.174.56.1i. Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to…
1953–
Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen…
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Carrie Mae Meek (née Pittman; April 29, 1926 – November 28, 2021) was an American politician and educator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 17th congressional district from 1993 to 2003. She was the first African American elected to…
1931–2018
Carrie Saxon Perry (August 30, 1931 – November 22, 2018) was an American politician from Connecticut. She was notable as the first African American woman to be elected mayor of a major New England city – Hartford, Connecticut – in 1987. She served three…
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Carrie Whalon (1870–1927) was an African-American and Hoosier suffrage leader and the first President of the First Colored Women's Franchise League/First Colored Woman's Suffrage Club in Indianapolis. Her last name was also spelled as Whallon and Whalen in…
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Caroline "Carrie" M. Williams (née Edwards) (c. 1866 – January 22, 1930) was an African American educator in West Virginia in the United States. Williams fought and won a significant 1898 civil rights case, Williams v.
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Carrie Williams Clifford (September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio – November 10, 1934) was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.
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