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1907–1960
Charles W. Anderson Jr. (May 26, 1907 – June 14, 1960) was an African-American lawyer, state legislator and civil rights leader in Kentucky. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1936 until 1946, and was…
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War…
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Charles Wesley Turnbull (February 5, 1935 – July 3, 2022) was a U.S. Virgin Islands politician, educator and historian who served as the sixth governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2007.
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Charles William Anderson (April 28, 1866 – January 28, 1938) was a Republican Party political organizer who served as Collector of Revenue in New York City. He was appointed by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt who dined with Booker T. Washington at the…
1927–2016
Charles Z. Smith (February 23, 1927 – August 28, 2016) was an American judge who served as a Washington State Supreme Court Justice from 1988 to 2002. He was the first person of color and the first African American to hold the position.
1912–2001
Charleszetta Waddles (born Charleszetta Lena Campbell; October 7, 1912 – July 12, 2001), also known as Mother Waddles, was an African-American activist, Pentecostal church minister, and founder of Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission, an independent church in…
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Charleta B. Tavares is a former member of the Ohio Senate. She represented the 15th District from 2011 to 2018. Her district included much of central Franklin County, including the cities of Bexley and Grandview Heights with the majority encompassing the…
1917–2007
Charlie Brady Hauser (October 13, 1917 – November 11, 2007) was an American educator and legislator. He was a professor of education at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina for 21 years, and served two terms in the North Carolina General…
August 2, 2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with journalist Charlie Cobb. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.6.1.1 and 2025.12.6.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file (2025.12.6.1.3, .mov file). Charles…
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Charlie A. Dooley is an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the County Executive of St. Louis County, Missouri until January 1, 2015. Dooley was the first African American to hold this position.
1918–1993
Charles William Duncan Hutchison (10 May 1918 – March 1993) was a Black-British anti-fascist, soldier, and ambulance driver noted for being the only Black-British member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. In Spain he was one of the…
1929–1956
Charles Peete (February 22, 1929 – November 27, 1956) was an American professional baseball player. The reigning 1956 batting champion of the Triple-A American Association, who received a one-month, 23-game trial with the 1956 St. Louis Cardinals of Major…
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Ronald Phillips (born 22 November 1944), better known as Charlie, also known by the nickname Smokey, is a Jamaican-born restaurateur, photographer, and documenter of black London. He is now best known for his photographs of Notting Hill during the period…
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Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass (February 14, 1874 – April 12, 1969) was an American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist. She also focused on various other issues such as housing rights, voting rights, and labor rights, as well as…
1813–1891
Charlotte B. Ray (née Charlotte Augusta Burroughs; c. 1813 – 25 October 1891) was an American prominent pastor, suffragist, and abolitionist. Charlotte was the second wife of Charles Bennett Ray a revered African-American journalist. They were an active…
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Charlotte Crutchfield (born December 8, 1963) is an American politician from Maryland. She is a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates who currently represents Maryland House of Delegates District 19 in Montgomery County.
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Charlotte Gilmore Durante was elected in 1978 as the first African American woman City Commissioner in Delray Beach, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida. She served until 1982. In 2010, she was arrested on charges of defrauding Haitian immigrants out of…
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883 – January 11, 1961) was an American author, educator, civil rights activist, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina.
1839–1914
Charlotte L. Brown (1839–?) was an American educator and civil rights activist who was one of the first to legally challenge racial segregation in the United States when she filed a successful lawsuit against a streetcar company in San Francisco in the…
1871–1939
Maxeke graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio before returning home to found the Bantu Women's League, a forerunner of the ANC Women's League.
1847–1928
Charlotte M. Rollin (c. 1847–1928) was an American political and civil rights activist, suffragist, and feminist. Rollin, along with her five sisters, Frances Anne, Kate, Louisa, and Florence, became well known for their political activism in South…
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Charlotte Vandine Forten (1785–1884) was an American abolitionist and matriarch of the Philadelphia Forten family.
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Charlton Deron McIlwain (born 1971) is an American academic and author whose expertise includes the role of race and media in politics and social life. McIlwain is Professor of media, culture, and communication and is the Vice Provost for Faculty…
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Charlton "Charles" Hunt Tandy (c. 1836 – 1919) was an African American volunteer militia officer in Missouri, lawyer, newspaper publisher, state legislator-elect, public official, and civil rights activist.
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