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Historical photographs & documents

Henderson Family Home Movie #7

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Cataloged as “Henderson Family Home Movie #7”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref1060
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Henderson Family Home Movie #8

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Cataloged as “Henderson Family Home Movie #8”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref1061
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Henderson Family Home Movie #9

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Cataloged as “Henderson Family Home Movie #9”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref1062
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Literature

Henri Pardo

Biography

Henri Pardo is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted as director of the documentary film Dear Jackie, which was a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. Born in Edmundston, New Brunswick to immigrant…

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Business & Enterprise

Henrietta Duterte

1817–1903

Henrietta Duterte (née Bowers; July 1817 – December 23, 1903) was an African-American funeral home owner, philanthropist, and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first American woman to own a mortuary, and her business operated as a…

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Biography & Culture

Henrietta Phelps Jeffries

1857–1926

Henrietta Phelps Jeffries (January 5, 1857 – August 22, 1926) was an African American midwife and a founding member of the Macedonia A.M.E. Church located in Milton, North Carolina.

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Civil Rights

Henrietta Ray

1808–1836

Henrietta Green Regulus Ray (c. 1808–1836) was an African-American female activist living in New York City who advocated for women's education and independence. She helped found the African Dorcas Association, an organization that worked to provide…

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Biography & Culture

Henriette DeLille

1813–1862

Henriette Díaz DeLille, SSF (March 11, 1813 – November 17, 1862) was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans. She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior. The sisters are…

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Biography & Culture

Henry Adams

1802–1872

Henry Adams (December 17, 1802 – November 3, 1872) was a Baptist pastor and leader in the Black community in 19th-century Kentucky. He was born to free parents in Franklin County, Georgia, and became ordained at age 23. He preached throughout the Deep…

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Business & Enterprise

Henry Allen Loveless

1854–1921

Henry Allen Loveless (1854–1921) was a businessman and community leader in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped found the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

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Architecture

Henry Beard Delany

1858–1928

Henry Beard Delany (February 5, 1858 – April 14, 1928) was an American clergyman and the first African-American person elected Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

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Literature

Henry Bibb

1815–1854

Henry Walton Bibb (May 10, 1815– August 1, 1854), was an American author and abolitionist who was born into slavery. Bibb told his life story in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, which included many failed escape…

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Education & Scholarship

Henry Damon Davidson

1869–1955

Henry Damon Davidson (December 16, 1869 – February 21, 1955), sometimes noted as Henry Damon, or H. D. Davidson, was an American academic administrator, educator, author, and church leader in Centreville, Alabama. He founded the Bibb County Training…

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Medicine & Health

Henry Floyd Gamble

1862–1932

Henry Floyd Gamble (16 January 1862 – 7 September 1932) was an African-American surgeon, obstetrician, physician and president of the National Medical Association from 1911 to 1912. Gamble was born on 16 January 1862 in North Garden, Virginia to Henry…

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Civil Rights & Community

Henry Gunter

1920–2007

Henry Gunter (1920 – 23 July 2007) was a leading British communist and civil rights leader, most famous for his campaigns for racial equality in the English city of Birmingham. After joining the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), he authored a report…

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Biography & Culture

Henry H. Proctor

1868–1933

Henry Hugh Proctor (b. December 8, 1868 near Fayetteville, Tenn., d. 1933) was a minister of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta, the second-oldest African American Congregational church in the United States.

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Civil Rights & Community

Henry Highland Garnet

1815–1882

Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an American abolitionist, minister, educator, orator, and diplomat. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was educated at the…

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Biography & Culture

Henry L. Phillips

1847–1947

Henry Laird Phillips (March 11, 1847 – May 27, 1947) was an American social reformer and rector of the Church of the Crucifixion, an African American Episcopal Church congregation in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission erected a…

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Literature & Journalism

Henry Mayson

1835–

Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi. Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He served in the…

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Politics & Public Life

Henry McNeal Turner

1834–1915

Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834, South Carolina, U.S. – May 8, 1915, Ontario, Canada) was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he…

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Medicine & Health

Henry Morgan Green

1877–1939

Henry Morgan Green (1877–1939) was an American physician, a national healthcare leader, researcher, scholar, real estate investor, and alderman. He served as the city physician in Knoxville, Tennessee, and president of the National Medical Association. He…

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Civil Rights & Community

Henry Moxley

1809–1878

Henry Moxley (1809 – December 12, 1878) was an African-American businessman, religious leader and activist in Buffalo, New York. He is known for his work to promote school integration and the education of African-American children.

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Civil Rights

Henry N. Jeter

1851–1938

Henry N. Jeter (October 7, 1851 – August 4, 1938) was a Baptist minister and social justice activist from Newport, Rhode Island. He was minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport for 42 years before founding a pair of organizations seeking to aid poor,…

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