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Annette March-Grier is the president of the Roberta's House Inc., a nonprofit grief support center for children and adults in Baltimore, MD. Her career path includes being a registered nurse and a licensed mortician. Her family owns the largest African…
1940–
Annie Marie Garraway (née Watkins; born 1940) is an American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission. She is also a philanthropist.
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Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1877 – May 10, 1957) was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise…
Oct. 1866–Sept. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Annual Reports”.
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Anthony Michael Johnson is an American experimental physicist, a professor of physics, and a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the director of the Center for Advanced…
1934–1996
Mary Antoinette Rodez Schiesler (December 13, 1934 – April 8, 1996; née Carole Virginia Rodez) was an American chemist and director of research at Villanova University. She was also a former Roman Catholic nun and Episcopal deaconess.
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April Perry Carson is an American epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Carson is director of the Jackson…
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Aprille Joy Ericsson (born April 1, 1963) is an American aerospace engineer who had served as the assistant secretary of defense for science and technology. Ericsson is the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from…
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Archibald Alphonso Alexander (May 14, 1888 – January 4, 1958) was an American architect and engineer. He was an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa and the first to graduate from the University of Iowa's College of Engineering. He was…
1932
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-red hardback copy of Architectural Graphic Standards owned and used by architect Julian Abele Cook, Sr. This hardback, first edition of Architectural Graphic Standards features black front and back covers with a red strip along the bound edge.…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Architectural Record Business Design Engineering, 1989” (Text).
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Ariangela J. Kozik is an American microbiologist, computational biologist, and science communicator. She is the co-founder and vice president of the Black Microbiologists Association and serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular,…
1980–
Arlan Hamilton (born 1980) is an American Venture capitalist, investor, author, and entrepreneur. She is the founder and managing partner of Backstage capital, a venture capital firm established in 2015 that invests in startups led by founders who are…
1945–
Arlene Paige Maclin is an American physicist and academic administrator. Maclin was one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in physics. She is a professor at Howard University.
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Arlene Modeste Knowles is an American advocate for diversity in physics. She is project manager for TEAM-UP Together (the Task Force to Elevate African American representation in Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy), a scholarship and diversity program of…
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Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE (born February 8, 1964) is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. Petters became the provost at New York…
1917-1919
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWorld War I diary of Roy Underwood Plummer. The hardback book has a green cloth cover with black lettering that reads [ARMY AND NAVY / DIARY / FRENCH-ENGLISH WORDS / AUTOGRAPHS OF COMRADES]. The first page bears a handwritten inscription that reads [Roy…
1936–
Arnold Stancell is an African American chemical engineer and scholar known for his contributions to petrochemical research.
1995–
Aron Sanyika Julius (born April 1995) is an English actor. Following various stage appearances including Choir Boy, A Raisin in the Sun, Othello and Boys from the Blackstuff, Julius was cast in the BBC medical drama series Casualty as Matty Linlaker in…
Biography
Art Stewart is an American record producer, audio engineer, and composer who has worked on many Motown recordings. He worked on the Blue album by Diana Ross, and recordings by Teena Marie, including her Wild and Peaceful album, released in 1979. With…
1936–2001
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. (August 24, 1936 – April 29, 2001) was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket…
1928–1997
Arthur Cunningham (November 11, 1928, Piermont, New York – March 31, 1997, Nyack, New York) was an American composer and educator. His students included singer Kate Davidson, producer/engineer Peter Francovilla, pianist John Ellis, musician and computer…
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Arthur Grand Pre’ Falls Sr. (December 25, 1901 – January 9, 2000) was an African-American physician and activist based in Chicago. He became in 1925 the founder of the city's first Catholic Worker.
1939–2012
Arthur J. Bond (1939 – December 30, 2012) was the dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at Alabama A&M University in Alabama, United States, and an activist in the cause of increasing black enrollment and retention in engineering and technology.…
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