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Arthur J. Willis was an American college football coach and athletics administrator. He reportedly began coaching college football at least as early as 1914, and in 1924, he was the head football coach at Western University in Kansas. The following year,…
1881–1957
Arthur John Booker, M.D. (October 31, 1881 – August 25, 1957) was a prominent community activist and health advocate who worked in Des Moines, Iowa, and Los Angeles, California. He also served as a physician with the 365th Infantry Regiment of the 92nd…
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Arthur McKinnon Brown (November 9, 1867 – December 4, 1939), also known as Arthur McKimmon Brown, was an American physician. In the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Brown was one of the earliest African American physicians, and the first African American…
1933–2015
Arthur Nathaniel "Pete" Thorpe (26 April 1933 – 30 June 2015) was a physicist and professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was the second student to receive a PhD in physics from Howard, and helped to establish a cooperative degree program…
1951–
Artina Tinsley Hardman (born July 13, 1951) is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
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Artishia Garcia Gilbert (1868–1904) (also known as Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson) was an African-American physician who was likely the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. state of Kentucky. After earning her undergraduate…
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Artishia Garcia Wilkerson Jordan (August 12, 1901 – February 7, 1974) was an American educator and clubwoman, based in Los Angeles.
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Asegun Sekou Famake Henry is the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics and Area Head for Energy Science and Engineering in the Department of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is focused on energy…
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Ash Walker is a London-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, whose music spans a diverse range of genres, such as jazz, blues, soul, funk, reggae, dub, trip hop, acid jazz, and electronica, among others. He has released four studio albums:…
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Ashanti Johnson (previously Ashanti Johnson-Pyrtle) is an American geochemist and chemical oceanographer. She is the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in oceanography from Texas A&M University. Johnson received the Presidential Award for…
1978–
Ashley Diamond (born 1978) is an American transgender civil-rights activist, singer, and actress. She is known for suing the Georgia Department of Corrections twice for incarcerating her with male inmates and refusing to provide her with medical treatment…
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Ashley Nora is a contemporary American multidisciplinary visual artist born in Laurel, Mississippi whose paintings, murals, and sculptural works reimagine classical iconography through a contemporary Black lens. Known for her signature blue and white…
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Ashley Lindalía Walker is an astrochemist, science communicator, and activist. In response to police brutality against Black Americans and sparked by the success of Black Birders Week, Walker co-organized #BlackinChem, #BlackInAstro, and #BlackInPhysics to…
1983–
Asmau Ahmed is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, technology advocate, and beauty expert. She has promoted initiatives supporting women in technology and entrepreneurship.
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a nationally recognized American soil scientist and political ecologist. A professor of soil biogeochemistry at the University of California, Merced since 2009, she is the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology in…
July 1865–Dec. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe Assistant Commissioner's reports of rations, clothing, and medicine issued, July 1865–December 1868, is arranged chronologically. These reports were consolidated from the monthly reports received from subordinate officers.
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Audrey Forbes Manley (born March 25, 1934) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. Manley was the first African-American woman appointed as chief resident at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago (1962), as well as the first to…
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Audrey Shields Penn (born in 1934) is an American neurologist and emeritus professor. Her major area of research was in the biochemistry of muscle weakness in myasthenia gravis. Penn was elected President of the American Neurological Association in 1994.
1924–2018
Augustus “Gus” Prince was an American nuclear scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory who developed the standard methodology for the analysis of deformed nuclei. He was the first Black radarman in the Navy, having served as a second class officer…
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Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva (born 20 November 1983) is a Brazilian politician, political scientist and sociologist. Although born in Pará, she has spent her political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as federal deputy representative…
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Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto is an American attorney, businesswoman, and biologist who served as the 17th director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 2019 to 2021. She was confirmed by the Senate as director on December 12, 2019, by a 52–39…
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Avery August (born January 28, 1964) is a Belizean-born American scientist who is currently a professor of immunology and vice provost at Cornell University.
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Aya Osman is a Sudanese-American Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Osman Lab at University at Albany, State University of New York. Prior to starting her independent research laboratory, she was a postdoctoral fellow and later Assistant…
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born 1980 or 1981) is a marine biologist, policy expert, and conservation strategist. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for ocean-climate policy in coastal cities, and the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin…
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