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Ludmilla Aristilde is an American engineer who is a professor at Northwestern University. Her research considers environmental biochemistry and bioengineering. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bessel Research Award.
1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a lunchbox and thermos set printed with illustrations of actors from the sitcom "Julia" starring Diahann Carroll. The front of the lunchbox, i.e. the lid, has a green border and features the show logo, red block-text outlined in black reading…
1909–1997
Luvenia C. Miller (September 14, 1909 – September 6, 1997) was an American biological photographer. She was the first African-American woman to serve as the director of the Biological Photographers Association.
1885–
Lyda D. Newman (fl. 1892–1925) was an American hairdresser and inventor who was also an activist for women's suffrage. She held a patent for a novel hairbrush.
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Lydia Mitcham Meredith (born May 3, 1952) is an American author and the former CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center (RLC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
1956–
Lynda Marie Jordan (born 20 September 1956) is an American biochemist, ordained minister, and CEO & founder of A Place to Heal Ministries, Inc. (APTHM). She was the third Black woman to receive a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),…
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Lynden A. Archer is a chemical engineer, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute, and professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University. He became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 and…
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Lyndsey Scott is an American model and iOS mobile app software developer. She was the first African American to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein, and has worked for Gucci, Prada, and Victoria's Secret. Besides modeling, Scott writes…
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Lynika Strozier (August 28, 1984 – June 7, 2020) was an American researcher and scientist who died from COVID-19 in June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois.
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Lynnae C. Quick (born c. 1984) is an American planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist. Her research centers on theoretical modeling of cryovolcanic processes on the icy moons and dwarf planets in the Solar System as well as modeling…
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Lynne Doreen Richardson is an American emergency physician and health services researcher. She is a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sina and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
1949–
Maxine Deborrah Hyde (born January 18, 1949) is an American neurosurgeon who is the second African American woman certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
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Melissa Evelyn Thompson Coppin (c. 1878 – September 27, 1940) was an American physician. Coppin was the tenth African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. She was also known for the creation of the children's welfare group, the…
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Melissa "M'Lis" Ward is a United Airlines pilot, the first African-American female captain in commercial passenger aviation, according to Ebony magazine. Her mother, Anne B. Ward, was one of the first two black women to graduate from the Pritzker School of…
1895–1988
Mabel J. Byrd (July 3, 1895 – May 20, 1988) was a civil rights activist and the first African American to enroll at the University of Oregon.
1890–1989
Mabel Keaton Staupers (February 27, 1890 – September 30, 1989) was a Barbadian born American pioneer of the nursing profession. Being faced with racial discrimination after graduating nursing school, Staupers became an advocate for racial equality in…
1897–1990
Maceo Richard Clark (July 9, 1897 – July 29, 1990) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s. A native of Chatham, Virginia, Clark attended Howard University where he played college baseball for the Howard Bison baseball team and was a member of…
1931–1995
Mack Gipson Jr. (September 15, 1931 – March 10, 1995) was an American geologist who became the second African-American man to obtain a Ph.D. in geology, Dr.James Christopher achieved the distinction first, Ohio state 1959, and is still alive today at 100…
1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Madam Fatimoh, celebrated maker of small, decorative water coolers, joins two hemispherical molded pieces together with clay, to form the basic shape of a water cooler, Ile Babaoye, Okelele, Ilorin” (Slides (photographs)).
1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Madam Fatimoh, having joined two hemispherical molded pieces together, smooths out the join, Ile Babaoye, Okelele, Ilorin” (Slides (photographs)).
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Madeline M. Turner was a Black American Freedman inventor. She invented Turner's Fruit-Press, which paved the way for further development of the fruit press. She was granted U.S. patent 1,180,959 on April 25, 1916 and exhibited her invention at the…
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Madelyne Woods is a cable television personality who appeared on BET throughout the 1990s. She completed undergraduate at University of Maryland at College Park graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism in 1986. She completed her master's…
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Madison Maxey is an African American engineer, entrepreneur, and designer known for her innovations with e-textiles and advanced materials.
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Madman the Greatest is a British hip hop recording artist and music producer from Birmingham, who has gained notoriety for his underground remixes of classic records including titles by Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, which have polarised his reputation.…
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