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Dorothy Burnham (née Challenor; born March 22, 1915) is an American civil rights activist, educator and supercentenarian. She is the widow of activist and journalist Louis E. Burnham.
1930–2018
Dorothy Cotton (June 9, 1930 – June 10, 2018) was an American civil rights activist, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and a member of the inner circle of one of its main organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership…
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Dorothy Cowser Yancy (born April 18, 1944) is an American academic, professor, and administrator. Her contributions to academia established her legacy of scholarship among African-American women. During college, Yancy participated in civil rights…
Biography
Dorothy F. Bailey is an American civic leader from Prince George's County, Maryland. She served on the county council for eight years, serving two terms as chairman. She has served on the boards of many national and local organizations, including the…
July 25, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.40.1a, 2011.174.40.1b, 2011.174.40.1c, 2011.174.40.1d, 2011.174.40.1e, 2011.174.40.1f, 2011.174.40.1g, and 2011.174.40.1h. Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina,…
1912–2010
Height organized alongside the era's major civil-rights leaders, championing the rights of Black women and helping plan the 1963 March on Washington.
1933–2013
Dorothy Kuya (16 March 1933 – 23 December 2013) was a leading British communist and human rights activist from Liverpool, the co-founder of Teachers Against Racism, and the general secretary of the National Assembly of Women (NAW). She was a life-long…
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Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown (January 7, 1914 – June 13, 2004), also known as "Dr. D.", was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher. She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States.
1923–1991
Dorothy Mae Richardson (May 3, 1922 – April 28, 1991) was an African American community activist who is credited with introducing a new model of community development in the late 1960s when she led a resident campaign for better housing in her neighborhood…
July, 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Dorothy M. Williams, Dorothy Height, Dr. Pauli Murray and Veta Harris. Williams and Harris are standing while Dorothy Height and Dr. Pauli Murray are sitting at a banquet table. All wear corsages. The photograph is stamped…
1938–2022
Dorothy Pitman Hughes (born Dorothy Jean Ridley; October 2, 1938 – December 1, 2022) was an American feminist, child welfare advocate, activist, public speaker, author, and small business owner. Pitman Hughes co-founded the Women's Action Alliance. Her…
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Dorothy E. Roberts (born March 8, 1956) is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell…
1947–
Dorothy Jean Tillman (née Wright; May 12, 1947) is an American politician, civil rights activist and former Chicago, Illinois alderman. Tillman served as the alderman of the city's 3rd ward (map) from 1985 until 2007. A member of the Democratic Party,…
1948 - 1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDouble Exposed Studio Portrait, Diptych.
1948 - 1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDouble Exposed Studio Portrait, Studio Portrait of a Woman Sitting, Diptych.
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Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, (16 August 1879 – 5 May 1958) was a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham, initially as a Conservative. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951. Upon stepping…
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Douglas Dollarhide (March 11, 1923 – June 28, 2008) was an American politician, notable for serving as the first African American mayor of Compton, California.
1928–2019
Douglas Elaine Moore (July 23, 1928 – August 22, 2019) was a Methodist minister who organized the 1957 Royal Ice Cream Sit-in in Durham, North Carolina. Moore entered the ministry at a young age. After finding himself dissatisfied with what he perceived as…
1939–2013
Douglas Leavon Anderson (February 18, 1939 – April 13, 2013) was an American educator and politician from Mississippi. Anderson, a Democrat, was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1976. He served in that office until 1980, when he…
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Douglas M. Wicks is a politician in Mobile County, Alabama. Elected to the Mobile County Commission in 1980, he was the first African American to hold that position since Reconstruction. In 1987 he was found guilty of four counts of extortion of persons…
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the…
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Dovey Mae Johnson Roundtree (April 17, 1914 – May 21, 2018) was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney. Her 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case to be brought before…
1946–1997
Little Dovie Thurman (1946 – April 7, 1997) was a community activist who dedicated her life to the social and political development of people in poor communities. She is most known for her involvement in the Chicago welfare rights campaign of the 1960s.…
January 15, 1969; printed 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black and white photograph is a detail of the seated crowd inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969. Benjamin Mays is seated at proper left holding a program. Mays is next to Isaac Farris Jr. and…
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