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Jerome Foster II (born May 9, 2002) is an American environmental activist. He is the youngest-ever White House advisor in United States history, as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council within the Biden administration. Foster…
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Jesse Binga (April 10, 1865 – June 13, 1950) was a prominent American businessman who founded the first privately owned African-American bank in Chicago. Binga recalled coming to Chicago in the 1890s with $10 in his pocket. By the 1920s he was a bank…
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Jesse Chisholm Duke (March 7, 1853 – January 23, 1916) was a religious and political leader in Alabama who established and edited the Baptist Montgomery Herald newspaper and served as a Selma University trustee. He advocated for civil rights for African…
1926–2012
Jesse Hill Jr. (May 30, 1926 – December 17, 2012) was a Black American civil rights activist. He was active in the civic and business communities of the city for more than five decades.
1927–2013
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll; 23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013) was a Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of black and Asian literature, and a women's and community rights activist. She…
1988–
Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, founder, CEO and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of Uncharted, which made Soccket, a soccer ball that can be used as a portable power generator. Matthews attended Harvard College and graduated…
November 1, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 1, featuring a full length black and white image of Mrs. Ray Robinson, against a red and white background. Robinson is wearing a full length mink coat, dark gloves, and dark strappy sandals. She is facing the camera in…
November 8, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 2, featuring a black and white image of Katherine Dunham, against a yellow background. Dunham is wearing a black off-the-shoulders dress decorated with feathers, fishnet stockings, heeled shoes, a feathered half hat, and a…
November 15, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPages 25 and 26 from Jet Magazine, volume 1, number 3. The page 25 features Drake University football player, Johnny Bright, following the broken jaw injury he received during a game with Texas A&M University. Page 26 featured two images: one of Azell…
November 22, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 4, featuring a black and white image of Angelle DeLavallade, against a green background. DeLavallade is wearing a white bikini top, white pedal pushers and a nautical captain's hat with a black patch with two crossed anchors…
December 6, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 6, featuring a black and white image of boxer, Robert Satterfield, and his wife, Iona, against a light blue background. Only their faces and torsos are visible. Iona Satterfield is wearing an off-the-shoulders striped top.…
December 13, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 7, featuring a black and white image of singer Sarah Vaughan, against a green background. Only her face and shoulders are visible. Vaughan is wearing a light colored strapless top with sequined flowers. She is facing forward…
December 27, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 1, number 9, featuring a black and white image of singer Lena Horne, against an orange background. Horne is seated, facing forward with her hands on her hips and her proper right shoulder slight back. Horne is wearing a light colored,…
April 23, 1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 3, number 24, featuring a large black and white image of model Sylvia Fitt, against a blue and white background. Fitt is wearing a long-sleeved turtle-neck shirt. She is facing the camera in three-quarters profile with her proper left…
December 19, 1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGJet Magazine, volume 75, number 12 from December 19, 1988. The front cover features a color image of Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey is depicted standing on stage in front of a gray, fabric covered chair. She is wearing a black turtleneck, jeans, and a black belt…
Biography
Jewel Melanie Burks Solomon is an American tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist working as the first head of Google for Startups in the U.S. She is managing partner of the investment firm, Collab Capital, focusing on Black entrepreneurship. Burks…
1922–1997
Jewel Stradford Lafontant-Mankarious (April 28, 1922 – May 31, 1997) was the first female (and African American female) deputy solicitor general of the United States, an official in the administration of President George H. W. Bush, and an attorney in…
1939–2025
Jewel Thais-Williams (May 9, 1939 – July 7, 2025) was an American businesswoman and LGBTQI+ activist based in Los Angeles, the original owner of the Catch One, then known as Jewel's Catch One, and the first black woman in the United States to own a LGBT…
1941-1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWomen's hat covered in teal, green, pink, and silver metallic woven fabric with a large teal bow and silver rhinestones designed by Mae Reeves. The hat has a relatively high crown and a short rounded asymmetric brim that is longer in the front than at the…
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Jewell Jackson McCabe (born August 2, 1945) is an American feminist, business executive, social and political activist. She was a leader of, and spokesperson for, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's movement in the mid to late 1970s in New York…
1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Jewelry Advertisements and Clippings from The New Yorker”.
circa 1949-1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Jewelry Advertisements - Clippings and Cards”.
1953-1957
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Jewelry Business Orders”.
1969-1981, undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Jewelry Business - Supplies and Orders”.
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