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1979–2018
Franco spoke out against police violence and for the rights of Black, LGBTQ and favela communities before her assassination in 2018 made her a global symbol of resistance.
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Marietta Canty (September 30, 1905 – July 9, 1986) was an American actress, community activist and recipient of numerous humanitarian awards.
1905-05-29
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Marilyn Houlberg at art exhibit in Kalamazoo, Michigan."Yoruba Art From the Collections of Marilyn Houlberg and David Markin"".
Biography
Marilyn M. White is an American folklorist who researches African American folklore and family folklore.
1941–2015
Marilyn Marshall (October 15, 1941 - November 11, 2015) was an American singer of jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel music. She toured throughout the United States, Canada and the Bahamas. Marshall was a veteran of stage and television and received…
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Mario Mendell Winans (né Brown; born August 29, 1974) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer from South Carolina. A member of the Winans musical family, he is best known for his 2004 single "I Don't Wanna Know" (featuring Enya and P.…
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Marion B. Wilkinson (1870 – September 19, 1956) was an African American suffragist, community activist, and first president of the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
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Marion Patrick Jones (16 August 1931 – 2 March 2016) was a Trinidadian novelist, whose training was in the fields of library science and social anthropology. She is also known by the names Marion Glean and Marion O'Callaghan (her married name). Living in…
1945–1996
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois. She…
1929–2012
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist. She was especially known for recording and…
19th-20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden marionette in the form of a caricatured man wearing a top hat. The man has a black, metal top hat and black shoes but otherwise is not clothed. The body of the man is red painted wood with metal joints. Joints are located at the torso, knees,…
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Marissa Jenae Johnson (born 1990/1991) is an American activist who attained notoriety when she interrupted U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at an August 2015 rally in Seattle. Her activism has been associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.…
1994–
Marissa Kurtimah (born May 25, 1994 in Songo, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leone-Canadian track and field athlete competing in the sprint events, predominantly the 100m event. Kurtimah fled her country of birth (due to the civil war) in 2002 at 8 years old…
1983–
Marissa Janine Whitley (born January 11, 1983) is an American model and beauty queen who won Miss Teen USA 2001 title representing the state of Missouri. She was born in Los Angeles, California, to an African-American father and European-American mother.…
1896–1994
Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent…
1912–2002
Marjorie McKenzie Lawson (March 2, 1912 – October 11, 2002) was an African American attorney and judge who served on multiple federal commissions. Lawson's work as a lawyer focused on real estate development for urban renewal. She worked as the civil…
1968–
Mark Wayne Alleyne (born 23 May 1968) is an English cricket coach and former first-class cricketer who made ten One Day International appearances for England between 1998/99 and 2000/01. He is the head coach at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Classed…
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Mark-Anthony Kaye (born 2 December 1994) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for USL Championship club Sacramento Republic FC and the Canada national team.
1962–
Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English sports correspondent and former footballer. Born to a Gambian father and English mother, he was adopted into a foster family in Stoke-on-Trent at an early age. He played non-League football for local…
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Mark Christopher Lawrence (born May 22, 1964) is an American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist. He is known for his role as esoteric D.J. Tone Def in the 1994 satirical rap mockumentary Fear of a Black Hat. He has appeared in popular…
1934–1976
Mark Everett Comfort (February 6, 1934 – November 6, 1976) was a community activist who worked in early Oakland grassroots civil rights movements in the 1960s, before moving to Lowndes County, Alabama. He helped in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…
1957–
Dean holds three of IBM's original nine patents for the personal computer and helped develop the color PC monitor and the ISA bus that let devices connect to computers.
1959–
Mark "Marty" DeBarge (born June 19, 1959) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to being a drummer and percussionist, he plays a variety of wind instruments, such as the saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn and flute.…
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Mark Elliott Jelks (born April 10, 1984) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100-meter dash. He has a personal best of 9.99 seconds for the event and represented the United States at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. In…
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