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1898–1974
Joseph Armstrong "J. A." De Laine (July 2, 1898 – August 3, 1974) was an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Allen University in 1931, working as a laborer and…
1926–1975
Joseph Stewart Drummond (April 7, 1926 – January 13, 1975) was a Canadian activist from Saint John, New Brunswick. He joined the NAACP and the civil rights movement in the United States and later in his home province. Drummond was a key figure of the…
1922–2006
Joseph Everhart Boone (September 19, 1922 – July 15, 2006) was an American civil rights activist and organizer who marched together with Martin Luther King Jr.
1947–
Joseph Earl Marshall, Jr. (born 1947) is an American author, lecturer, radio talk show host, and community activist.
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Joseph Endom Jones (October 15, 1852–October 14, 1922) was an American Baptist minister and professor at the Richmond Theological Seminary and Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia from 1876 to 1922. He was a major leader in the Baptist Church…
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Joseph Godfrey (c. 1835 – July, 1909) was an African American who escaped from slavery into a Dakota community in Minnesota, United States, and fought on their side during the Dakota War of 1862. He was the only African-American combatant of the war.
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Joseph Gomer (1834 – September 6, 1892) was an African American missionary on behalf of the United Brethren Church active in Sierra Leone. Gomer was born in Michigan. During the American Civil War he served in the Union Army.
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Joseph H. Holland is an American businessman, real estate developer, attorney, public servant, author, and civic leader. Holland was selected by Governor George Pataki to serve as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Housing and Community…
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Joseph Harrison Jackson (January 11, 1900 – August 18, 1990) was an American pastor and the longest serving President of the National Baptist Convention, USA. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was highly controversial in many black churches,…
1824–1864
Joseph Harden (1824–1864) was an African American missionary whose proselytizing activity was in West Africa. Harden founded the First Baptist Church in Lagos and laid the foundation of the Baptist Academy in Lagos.
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Joseph Oluwagbemiga Mayowa Hungbo (born 15 January 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL League Two side Swindon Town on loan from EFL League One club Wigan Athletic.
1935–2015
Joseph L. Roberts Jr. (February 17, 1935 - February 15, 2015) was an American Baptist pastor. He was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1975 to 2005.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving…
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Joseph Alfred McNeil (March 25, 1942 – September 4, 2025) was a major general in the United States Air Force who was best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four – a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Joseph Mhlongo and his family in Lindelani near Durban Lindelani Village, South Africa” (Slides (photographs); Color slides).
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Joseph Newman Clinton (November 19, 1854 – 1927) was a politician and public official in Florida. An African American, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from Alachua County from 1881 to 1883, was a member of the city council in Gainesville…
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Joseph Robert Booker (or J. R. Booker; September 19, 1893 – July 31, 1960) was an African-American civil rights leader, lawyer, and politician from Arkansas. Booker was born on September 19, 1893, in Helena, Arkansas. His father, Rev.
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. (February 2, 1861 – March 14, 1949) was an American poet, writer, playwright, and community leader raised in Louisville, Kentucky (but born in Nelson County, Kentucky). Cotter was one of the earliest African-American playwrights to…
1804–1861
Joseph T. Ball (February 21, 1804 – September 20, 1861) was an early convert (and later excommunicated member) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Black man who held the priesthood prior to the priesthood ban instituted in 1849. He was…
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Joseph Henry Parson Westbrook (February 20, 1878 – September 23, 1939) was a businessman, community leader, and civil-rights activist in Denver, Colorado. An African American physician and dentist who had moved to Denver from Hernando, Mississippi,…
1899–1986
Josephine B. Chenault Sneed (December 22, 1899 – March 23, 1986) was an American commissioner of Cook County, Illinois. She was the first African-American woman to serve on Cook County's Board of Commissioners. Prior to her election, she was a volunteer…
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Josephine Beall Willson Bruce (October 29, 1853 – February 15, 1923) was a women's rights activist in the late 1890s and early 1900s. She spent a majority of her time working for the National Organization of Afro-American Women. She was a prominent…
1894–1982
Josephine (Josie) Bond Hebron (November 22, 1894 – February 1982) was a traveler, businesswoman, and writer/publisher who was African-American. She was the cousin of composer and pianist Carl Rossini Diton and sister of composer and pianist John Harvey…
1920–1997
Josephine Dorothy Butler (January 24, 1920 ― March 29, 1997) was an American activist. She co-founded and was chairman of the D.C. Statehood Party to combat the lack of selected representation in congress for her district. Butler played a significant role…
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