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Loading image…1920–2001
Louis Rayfield Purnell Sr. (April 5, 1920 – August 10, 2001) was a noted curator at the United States' National Air and Space Museum and earlier in life, a decorated Tuskegee Airman. At the museum, he became expert in space flight artifacts, particularly…
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Louis Tompkins Wright (July 23, 1891 – October 8, 1952) was an American surgeon and civil rights activist. In his position at Harlem Hospital he was the first African-American on the surgical staff of a non-segregated hospital in New York City. He was…
1913–1995
Louis Wright Roberts (September 1, 1913 – November 3, 1995) was an African American microwave physicist. In the 1960s, he was the chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked at the United States…
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Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an American physician, author and educator who served as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H. W. Bush and was Founding Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Biography
Louise Broni-Mensah is the founder of UK start-up Shoobs (pronounced Shubz), an event discovery and booking platform with an emphasis on music pioneered by Black people, which is often labelled as urban music. In 2019 the Financial Times named her as one…
1862–1899
Louise Celia "Lulu" Fleming (January 28, 1862 – June 20, 1899) was an American physician. She was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She returned from Africa to improve her skills and she was…
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Louise Olivia Violet Edwards (born 21 November 1978) is a Canadian astronomer and associate professor of physics at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and is one of the first Black Canadians to receive a PhD in astronomy. In 2002, she was…
1925–2006
Louise Nixon Sutton (November 4, 1925 – May 14, 2006) was a mathematician. She was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics education by New York University, and the first chair of the Department of Physical Sciences and…
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Ella Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988) was an American mathematics educator who became the first African-American woman to earn a degree at the University of Virginia. She taught for many years at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and Virginia State…
March 9, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.68.1a and 2011.174.68.1b. Louise Willingham Broadway shares her experiences of segregated education in Baker County, Georgia, and she discusses the lessons that her parents taught her when she was a…
Dec. 1866–July 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Louisville Consolidated Hospital Reports”.
July–Dec. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Louisville (East)”.
July–Sept. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Louisville (West)”.
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Lubertha Miller Johnson (July 22, 1906, Ackerman, Mississippi – January 6, 1996, Las, Vegas, Nevada) was an African-American nurse, civil rights campaigner and anti-poverty activist, based in Paradise Valley, Nevada. She was known as the first Black nurse…
1879–1957
Lucean Arthur Headen (26 August 1879 – 17 September 1957) was an American aviator, inventor, and entrepreneur. An early African-American barnstormer in the 1910s, he later co-founded the first United States-wide African-American automobile racing…
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Lucile L. Adams-Campbell (born December 30, 1953) is the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in epidemiology in the United States. She serves as the Professor of Oncology at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate director for Minority…
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Lucille Constance Gunning (February 2, 1921 – April 26, 2018), also known as Lucille Blackwood, was an African American pediatrician and medical services administrator who became a specialist in the treatment of children's cancer, the director of pediatric…
1892–1985
Lucille Elizabeth Bishop Smith (1892–1985) was an African American entrepreneur, chef, and inventor. She invented the first hot biscuit mix, and has been called "the first African American businesswoman in Texas".
1952–
Lucille C. Norville Perez (born 1952) is an American physician known for her work in substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Lucinda "Lucie" Bragg Adams (née Bragg; other surnames include Peters and Anthony; December 4, 1860 — August 22, 1932) was an African American physician, educator, temperance leader, musician, and writer.
1928–2020
Lucius Jefferson Barker (June 11, 1928 – June 21, 2020) was an American political scientist. He was the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professor and chair of the political science department at Washington University in St. Louis, and then the William Bennett Munro…
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Lucy Ella Moten (c. 1851 – August 24, 1933) was an American educator and medical doctor. A principal of The Miner School (now known as University of the District of Columbia).
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Lucy Higgs Nichols (April 10, 1838 – January 25, 1915) was an African American woman who escaped slavery. She served as a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Known affectionately as "Aunt Lucy", her sole photo shows her surrounded by…
1863–1911
Lucy Hughes Brown (April 12, 1863 – June 26, 1911) was the first African-American woman physician licensed to practice in both North Carolina and South Carolina and the cofounder of a nursing school and hospital. Hughes Brown was also an activist and poet.
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