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Edward Montgomery Jordan (born January 29, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He formerly served as head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards, and Sacramento Kings in the National Basketball Association…
1938–2000
Eddie Mae Steward (1938–2000) was an American civil rights leader in Florida. She was the plaintiff in a school desegregation lawsuit against the Duval County School Board, which continued for decades. She served as president of the Jacksonville branch of…
1920–1970
Eddie C. McGirt (January 31, 1920 – December 21, 1999) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1958 to 1977,…
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Eddie Otchere is a British-Ghanaian photographer, cultural chronicler and educator based in South London, England. He is known for his portraiture and documentation of underground youth culture, leading musicians, rappers, vocalists and DJs, spanning from…
1967–
Robert Edward Pye (born February 13, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder. He is an alumnus of Middle Tennessee State University. Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 10th round of the 1988 MLB amateur draft, Pye made his Major…
1919–2007
Eddie Gay Robinson Sr. (February 13, 1919 – April 3, 2007) was an American college football and basketball coach. For 56 years, from 1941 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1997, he was the head coach at Grambling State University, a historically black…
1987–
Eddie James Williams (born August 22, 1987) is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Idaho Vandals, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the…
1975–
Edem Awumey (born 1975 in Lomé, Togo) is a Togolese-Canadian writer. Born in Togo and educated in France, he has lived in Gatineau, Quebec since 2005. His debut novel Port-Mélo won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2006, and his second novel Les…
1891–1974
Edgar Amos Love (September 10, 1891 – May 1, 1974) was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal and a civil rights spokesman.
1928–2004
Edgar Allan Toppin, Sr. (January 22, 1928 – December 8, 2004) was an African-American professor of history, and an author who specialized in Civil War, Reconstruction and African-American history. He spent the majority of his 40+ year teaching career at…
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Edison de Souza Carneiro (12 August 1912 – 2 December 1972) was a Brazilian writer, historian, folclorist and ethnologist who specialized in Afro-Brazilian culture. He was one of the most well-known Brazilian ethnologists during his time with his studies…
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Edith Mae Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician who was the first woman president of the National Medical Association and a founding member of the Association of Black Cardiologists. She was honored by many awards,…
1887–1987
Edith L. Williams (August 17, 1887 – June 9, 1987) was a United States Virgin Islands educator, women's rights activist, and suffragist. Williams was the first woman who attempted to vote in the Virgin Islands and when she was denied the right to register,…
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Edith Peterson Mitchell (November 20, 1947 – January 21, 2024) was a retired Brigadier general of the United States Air Force and an oncologist. She was clinical professor of medicine and medical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2015, she became…
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Edith Player Brown (December 14, 1907 – November 5, 1999), born Edith Amelia Player, was an American musician, artist, and arts educator in Akron, Ohio.
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Edith Renfrow Smith (July 14, 1914 – January 2, 2026) was an American supercentenarian and the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College. She was a granddaughter of slaves. At age 108, she was designated a "superager" in a study by…
1942–
Edmond Joseph Keller, Jr. (born August 22, 1942) is an American Africanist. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Keller is a professor in the political science department at UCLA. He is the former Director of…
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Edmond W. Davis (born 1976) is an American historian, author and educator. From 2020 to 2022, he was the director of the Derek Olivier Research Institute (DORI) at Arkansas Baptist College. Previously, he served as professor of history at University of…
1844–1870
Edmonia Highgate (June 21, 1844 – October 16, 1870), was an educator, writer, and activist for freed people in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Though born in Syracuse, New York, Highgate's work with the American Missionary Association brought her…
1920–2001
Edmund James Cambridge Jr. (September 18, 1920 – August 18, 2001) was an American actor and director who was a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and the Kilpatrick-Cambridge Theater Arts School.
1921–
Edmund Wyatt Gordon (born June 13, 1921) is an American psychologist and professor. Gordon was recognized as a preeminent scholar of African-American studies when he was awarded the 2011 John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education…
1818–1894
Edmund Kelly (May 23, 1818 - October 4, 1894) was the first African-American Baptist minister ordained in Tennessee. He escaped slavery in the 1840s to New England and returned after the US Civil War. He worked as a preacher and teacher in Columbia,…
1911–2004
Edna Burke Jackson (January 25, 1911 – February 21, 2004) was an American educator and writer. She was the first African American woman to teach at what was then Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. In 2022, the school was renamed Jackson-Reed…
1942–2010
Edna Viola Bynoe (1942 - 2010) was a community activist in Boston, MA. Bynoe was born in Roxbury and lived in the Orchard Park housing development. Bynoe revitalized the housing development, advocating for a neighborhood park and Orchard Hill Elementary…
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