A color photograph of women and men who were students at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa in the 1920s, the so-called "Class of the 20s." There are forty-one (41) women and eleven (11) men and women in the photograph, arranged in three (3) rows.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.135
Chuba Robert-Shamar Hubbard (CHOO-bə; born June 11, 1999) is a Canadian professional football running back for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, where he was a unanimous…
Charles Ealey (born January 6, 1950) is an American former professional football player for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He became the first black quarterback to win the Grey…
Charles Ray Johnson Jr. (born May 22, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman for one season with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and…
Clarence "Chucky" Brown Jr. (born February 29, 1968) is an American men's college basketball coach and former college and professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward, Brown played college ball at North Carolina State, and played in the NCAA Tournament…
Maria Aparecida da Silva, better known as Cidinha da Silva (born 1967), is a Brazilian writer. Silva was born in 1967 in Belo Horizonte. She graduated with a degree in history from the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
A typewritten letter, signed by Governer Craig Finch, and with an embossed gold seal of the state of Mississippi. The letter is on stationery with a letterhead reading [Mississippi / Executive Department / Jackson] and the typewritten text recognizes Rev.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.66
Claibourne Smith (born January 6, 1938) is an African American chemist. He worked at DuPont and served on the Board of Trustees of Delaware State University and on the Delaware State Board of Education. He was acting president of Delaware State University…
Clara Adams-Ender (née Leach; born July 11, 1939) is a retired United States Army officer who served as Chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps from September 1987 to August 1991. She was the first woman to receive her master's degree in military arts…
Clara Ann Thompson (1869–1949) was an African-American poet, teacher and civil rights advocate. Thompson was born in Rossmoyne, Ohio. Thompson's parents, John Henry and Clara Jane Gray Thompson, were previously enslaved in Virginia. Thompson's most notable…
Clara Belle Williams (October 29, 1885 – July 3, 1994) was the first African-American graduate of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now New Mexico State University), became an educator, and raised three sons who became doctors.
Clara Byrd Baker (June 22, 1886 – October 20, 1979) was an American educator, civic leader, and suffragist who fought for equal rights in the early 20th century. She was the first woman to vote in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Clara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011) was a civic leader, schoolteacher, and pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. She is best known for her leadership role in the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-in movement, as…
Clare-Hope Ashitey (born 12 February 1987) is a British actress. She attended the Centre Stage School of Performing Arts, Southgate while being educated at The Latymer School, in the Edmonton area of London, for seven years. She took a gap year between…
Clarence Acox is an American band director and jazz drummer. He is a native of New Orleans, and has been heard in a variety of settings in the Pacific Northwest. He is the former director of jazz bands at Garfield High School, where he has taught since…
Clarence Benjamin Jones (January 8, 1931 – May 22, 2026) was an American lawyer and the personal counsel, advisor, draft speech writer and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest…
The oral history consists of twelve digital files: 2011.174.84.1a, 2011.174.84.1b, 2011.174.84.1c, 2011.174.84.1d, 2011.174.84.1e, 2011.174.84.1f, 2011.174.84.1g, 2011.174.84.1h, 2011.174.84.1i, 2011.174.84.1j, and 2011.174.84.1k, 2011.174.84.1l. Dr.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.84.1a-l
Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in…
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr. (4 November 1924 – 21 December 1983) was an American professor of law and a United States ambassador to Uganda. Having experienced the horrors of World War II, as a diplomat he "labored tirelessly to safeguard and extend the…
Clarence "Skip" Ellis (May 11, 1943 – May 17, 2014) was an American computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at the CU-Boulder, he was the director of the…
Clarence Edward "Big House" Gaines Sr. (May 21, 1923 – April 18, 2005) was an American college men's basketball coach with a 47-year coaching career at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Among his numerous honors for his…
