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Lewis Latimer
1848–1928
Latimer improved carbon filaments for electric lighting, produced important patent drawings and contributed to the early electrical industry.
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Lewis Temple
1800–1854
Lewis Temple (1800 – 18 May 1854) was an American maker of items used in whaling, blacksmith, abolitionist, and inventor. He was born in slavery in Richmond, Virginia, and moved to the whaling village of New Bedford, Massachusetts during the 1820s, where…
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Education & Scholarship
Lewis Wade Jones
1910–1979
Lewis Wade Jones (March 13, 1910 – September 1979) was a sociologist and teacher. He was born in Cuero, Texas, the son of Wade E. and Lucynthia McDade Jones. A member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, he received his AB degree from Fisk University in 1931,…
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Historical photographs & documents
Lexington
Dec. 1866–July 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Lexington”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, Item 3.2.6.2
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Photographs and Still Images
Liberty House Marketing Warehouse - Inventory
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white image of the interior of the Liberty House Marketing Warehouse. The image is in portrait orientation and depicts a young man conducting inventory. He wears a dark collared shirt and pants, a white apron, and holds two dolls in his hands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.23.12.5
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magazines (periodicals)
Life Vol. 31 No. 23
December 3, 1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA December 3, 1951 issue of Life magazine containing a photographic essay by W. Eugene Smith of the midwife Maude E. Callen. The front cover of the magazine features a black and white photograph of a woman sitting sideways, with knees bent and her face…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.114.19
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Lilia Ann Abron
1945–
Lilia Ann Abron (born March 8, 1945) is an American entrepreneur and chemical engineer. In 1972, Abron became the first African American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering.
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Lilian Lewis
1904–1987
Lilian Burwell Lewis (August 13, 1904 – January 19, 1987) was an American zoologist known for being the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago and for her research in gonadogenesis. On November 8, 1960 she…
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Lillian Atkins Clark
1897–1934
Lillian Atkins Clark (April 29, 1897 – March 28, 1934) was an American physician. She was the first African American woman to pass the National Board of Medical Examiners. She worked as a medical doctor in Philadelphia in hospitals and in her own practice.
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Sports & Achievement
Lillian Greene-Chamberlain
1941–
Lillian Greene-Chamberlain (born 1941) is an American educator and former track and field athlete. Since she began running at the age of 16 in 1957. She received the first women's athletic scholarship to the Colorado State Rams track and field team,…
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Medicine & Health
Lillian Holland Harvey
1912–1994
Lillian Holland Harvey (1912–1994) was an American nurse, educator and doctor known for her contributions to medical education. She was an activist for the equal rights of African Americans. Harvey's accomplishments were achieved at a time in history when…
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Science & Inventions
Lillian K. Bradley
1921–1995
Lillian Katie Bradley (October 15, 1921 – February 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator who in 1960 became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas at Austin. She…
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Lillian Singleton Dove
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Lillian Singleton Dove (c. 1895 – June 17, 1975) was an American physician. Dove was an early African American woman physician and surgeon who first set up her own practice in Chicago in 1921. In addition to medical work, Dove was also involved in her…
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Science & Inventions
Linda B. Hayden
1949–
Linda Bailey Hayden (born February 4, 1949) is an American mathematician. She specializes in mathematics education and applications of mathematics in geoscience, and is known for her mentorship of minorities and women in science, technology, engineering,…
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Linda Bell
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Linda J. Bell is an American physician who is South Carolina's State epidemiologist, Health Programs Branch Director at the South Carolina Department of Public Health and a member of The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) organization.
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Science
Linda C. Meade-Tollin
1944–
Linda Celida Meade-Tollin (born 16 August 1944) is an American biochemist and cancer researcher. In her research at the University of Arizona, she studied DNA damage, angiogenesis, and cancer invasion & metastasis; directed the Office of Women in Science…
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Linotype machine used by The Chicago Defender
1902-1906
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Linotype, Model 3 No. 41156R manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and used by the Chicago Defender. The linotype is black metal with lead and has a keyboard, vise, and distributor.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.1
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Lisa Bowleg
Dates not recorded
Lisa Bowleg (née: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg) is an applied social psychologist known for conducting research on intersectionality in social and behavioral science and the relationship between social-contextual factors and stress, resilience, and HIV risk in…
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Science
Lisa Dyson
1974–
Lisa Dyson is an American scientist, physicist, and entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Air Protein, a food tech company 'reinventing how food is produced using elements of the air'. As one of the companies recognized by the World Economic Forum,…
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Science & Inventions
Lisa Marie Stevens
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Lisa Marie Stevens is an American retired zoologist who served as the senior curator for mammals, and managed both the giant panda program and the primate program, at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo. She worked at the National Zoo from 1978 to…
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Lisa P. Jackson
1962–
Lisa Perez Jackson (born February 8, 1962) is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American to hold that position. In 2002,…
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Lisa White
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Lisa D. White is an American geologist and director of Education and Outreach at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. White is a former professor of geosciences and associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco…
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Arts & Performance
Lloyd Everitt
1987–
Lloyd Alexander A. Everitt (born 20 March 1987) is a Welsh actor. In 2015 at 27, he was the youngest actor to play Othello at Shakespeare's Globe. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards for his role in the BBC One medical…
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Lloyd Garrison Wheeler
1848–1909
Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, Sr. (1848 – 1909) was an African American attorney, businessman, philanthropist, and political leader. Wheeler was the first African-American to practice law in the state of Illinois and was influential in the establishment of…
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