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Charles Adams Bates (born c. 1934) is an American former football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State University from 1967 to 1969 and Southern University from 1972 to 1977.
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Charles Bennett Ray (December 25, 1807 – August 15, 1886) was a prominent African-American minister and abolitionist who owned and edited the weekly newspaper The Colored American. Born in Massachusetts, he spent most of his career and life in New York City.
March 20, 2024
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with activist and community organizer Charles Black. It consists of three versions of digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.14.1.1 and 2025.12.14.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
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Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis (April 14, 1842 – December 14, 1929) was an African-American physician who resided in Washington, D.C. Among the founders of the medical school at Howard University, he was the first African-American physician to attend a…
1918–1986
Charles M. Campbell (1918–1986) was an American educator, civil rights activist and politician from Hawaii. Campbell was a member of the Honolulu City Council, Hawaii State Legislature and Hawaii State Senate. Campbell traveled to Washington, D.C. in 1964…
1931–2018
Charles "Chuck" Harrison (September 23, 1931 – November 29, 2018) was an American industrial designer, speaker and educator. He was the first African-American executive to work at Sears, Roebuck and Company, starting in 1961 as a designer and eventually…
1987–
Charles Clark (born August 10, 1987) is an American sprinter, who specializes in the 200 metres. His personal best time is 20.22 seconds, but he also ran a 20.00 at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships, for 2nd place, qualifying him for the World…
1948–
Charles Coe (born October 31, 1948) is an American football coach and former football and baseball player. From 2003 to 2006, Coe served as the head football coach at Alabama State University, compiling a record of 29–18. A standout two-sport athlete at…
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Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed…
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Charles D. Brown II is an American physicist and assistant professor at Yale University, studying many-body physics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices and quantum simulation of quantum materials. Brown is also a lead organiser of #BlackInPhysics week,…
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Charles Franklin Davis (born November 14, 1964) is an American football analyst. He is currently the lead analyst for College Football on CBS, working alongside Brad Nessler. He is also an analyst for Tennessee Titans preseason games, working alongside Dan…
1917–2004
Charles DeWitt Watts (September 21, 1917 – July 12, 2004) was an African-American surgeon and activist for the poor. Watts was the first surgeon of African-American ancestry in North Carolina. Earning his medical degree in 1943 from Howard University…
1944–2016
Charles Dwight Lahr (February 6, 1944 – December 26, 2016) was an American mathematician, the first tenured African-American professor of mathematics at an Ivy League university, and a university administrator.
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Charles E. "Charlie" Cobb Jr. (born June 23, 1943) is a journalist, professor, and former activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Along with several veterans of SNCC, Cobb established and operated the African-American bookstore…
1908–1964
Charles Edgar Dickinson Jr. (August 12, 1908 – November 17, 1964) was an American landscape architect and educator. He was the first Black member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
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Charles F. Harris (January 3, 1934 – December 16, 2015) was an American book publisher and editor. Through his pioneering work at Howard University Press and at Amistad Press, which he founded in 1986, Harris was instrumental in the publication of many…
1970–2012
Charles Flores was born in Cuba in 1970. He became a bassist when he was 10 years old, but Cuban laws prohibited an in depth study of jazz and other American genres of music. Flores eventually immigrated to the United States as a refugee and settled in…
1879–1910
Charles W. Follis, also known as "the Black Cyclone", (February 3, 1879 – April 5, 1910) was the first Black professional American football player. He played for the Shelby Blues of the "Ohio League" from 1902 to 1906. On September 16, 1904, Follis signed…
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Charles Freeman Lee, known as Freeman Lee (August 13, 1927 – June 15, 1997) was an American Jazz Trumpeter, recording with the Elmo Hope Quintet, Bennie Green, Babs Gonzales and Howard McGhee.
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Charles Fremont "Pruner" West (January 25, 1899 – November 20, 1979) was an American track athlete, college football player and coach, and physician. He played football and ran track at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was the…
1944
Charles Gaines (born 1944) is an American visual artist, whose work interrogates the discourse of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, the work consistently involves the use of…
1936–2023
Charles Gilchrist Adams (December 13, 1936 – November 29, 2023) was an American pastor who served as the first Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry at Harvard Divinity School from 2007 to 2012.
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Charles Edward "Charlie" Greene (March 21, 1945 – March 14, 2022) was an American track and field sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Greene was considered a certain…
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Charles H. Sperry was a teacher, state legislator, and carpenter in South Carolina. He represented Georgetown County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874. He enrolled in law school. In 1880 he was recorded as being a carpenter.
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