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1933–2014
Aaron Shirley (January 3, 1933 – November 26, 2014) was an American physician, health care innovator, and civil rights activist. Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. His first introduction to becoming a medical professional was through his sister…
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Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply…
1861–1908
Abbie K. Mason (September 1861 – August 7, 1908) was a Black American suffragist. She was known as the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and taught the lessons of Frederick Douglass at the Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion…
1981–2007
Abbie Noel Campbell (née Mitchell December 21, 1918 – July 2, 2007) was an African American officer. She served as the executive officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only African-American and multi-ethnic US Women’s Army Corps…
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Abigail Daniella Phillip (born November 25, 1988) is an American CNN news anchor who anchors CNN NewsNight and CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five. She previously worked for Politico covering the Obama White House, The Washington Post as a national…
1914–2011
Nascimento founded the Teatro Experimental do Negro in 1944 to train Black actors and challenge racism in Brazilian culture, later serving as a senator and congressman.
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Abdu Ali is an American multidisciplinary musician, community activist, poet and artist based in Baltimore. In 2019, Baltimore City Major Jack Young's Office and the LGBTQ Commission honored Ali with the Artist of the Year Award. They released their first…
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Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of several books, including…
1931–2014
Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq (December 20, 1931 – November 21, 2014) was an African-American activist and Muslim known for being one of Malcolm X's most trusted associates. Born James Monroe King Warden, he was known as James 67X among fellow members of the…
1919–2018
Abdulrahim Abby Farah (Somali: Cabdiraxiim Caabbi Faarax, Arabic: عبد الرحيم آبي فرح; 22 October 1919 – 14 May 2018) was a Welsh-born Somali diplomat and politician. He was Assistant Secretary-General for Special Political Questions 1973-1978 and Deputy…
1905–1972
Abeid Amani Karume (4 August 1905 – 7 April 1972) was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Zanzibar and vice-president of Tanzania from 1964 until his assassination in 1972. He obtained the title of president as a…
1928–2015
Abena Joan Brown (1928-2015) was an African-American businesswoman and theater producer who founded the Creative Arts Foundation in Chicago to enable black artists to work. Known as the "mother of Chicago's black arts community", she received honors and…
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Abena Oppong-Asare (born 8 February 1983) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead since 2019. From 2025 to 2026, Oppong-Asare was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister,…
1957
Aberjhani (born Jeffery J. Lloyd July 8, 1957) is an American poet, writer and columnist. He is well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, and as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of The River of Winged…
October 10, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of twenty-nine digital files: 2011.174.108.1a, 2011.174.108.1b, 2011.174.108.1c, 2011.174.108.1d, 2011.174.108.1e, 2011.174.108.1f, 2011.174.108.1g, 2011.174.108.1h, 2011.174.108.1i, 2011.174.108.1j, 2011.174.108.1k,…
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ABilly S. Jones-Hennin (March 21, 1942 – January 19, 2024) was an American LGBT rights activist based in Washington, D.C. Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones-Hennin was active in African-American LGBTQ organizing, helping to found a number of groups, and…
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Abiodun Oyewole (born Charles Davis, February 1948), is a poet, teacher and member of the African-American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which developed into what is considered to be the first hip hop group. Critic Jason Ankeny wrote, "With…
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Abiodun Williams (born 1961) is an academic in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, and conflict management. Formerly he was a senior official at the United Nations, and former President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.
1813–1872
Abner Hunt Francis (1813 – March 28, 1872) was an African-American abolitionist and entrepreneur who advocated for equality in New Jersey, Oregon, and British Columbia. He was a founding member of an anti-slavery institution, businessman, and became the…
1984
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA documentary film with the title Abortion: Stories from North and South. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. Through interviews with women from Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia and Canada, the documentary…
1920–2016
Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi (14 June 1920 – 14 August 2016) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the second President of Zanzibar from 1972 to 1984. He held several other positions, including Chairman of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council, vice-president of the…
1801–1882
An abolitionist and shoemaker, Shadd won election to the Raleigh Township council in Canada West in 1859, opening a path later followed by other Black Canadians.
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Abraham Harris Galloway (February 8, 1837 – September 1, 1870) was an American abolitionist and politician. A former slave, he served as a Union Army spy and early black political organizer in eastern North Carolina during the American Civil War. After the…
1914–1978
Abraham Lincoln Davis Jr. (1914 – June 24, 1978) was an American minister and leader in the civil rights movement. He led voting drives and advocated for desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1975, Davis became the first African American member of…
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