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Efajemue "Efa" Etoroma Jr. (born August 3, 1988), is a Canadian jazz musician most noted for his 2021 album Aesthetics, which was a Juno Award nominee for Jazz Album of the Year – Solo at the Juno Awards of 2022. As a drummer, Etoroma has been compared to…
1913–1994
Effie O'Neal Ellis (June 15, 1913 – July 5, 1994) was an American pediatrician, child medical care consultant, and an activist for infant health and maternal education. Ellis was the first African-American woman to hold an executive position in the…
1921–2009
Effie Lee Morris (April 20, 1921 – November 9, 2009) was an African American children's librarian, educator, and activist, best known for her pioneering public library services for minorities and the visually-impaired. Morris developed Cleveland Public…
Biography
Effie T. Battle (c. 1882 – after 1940) was an African-American poet and educator. The wife of Wallace A. Battle, she served as President of Okolona College from 1927 to 1933, succeeding her husband.
Biography
Eilaf Egap (née Ahmed) is an adjunct assistant professor of Materials Science at Rice University. She works on imaging techniques and biomaterials for early diagnostics and drug delivery. She was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology MLK Visiting Scholar…
Biography
Eileen Gonzales is an American astrophysicist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, where her research focuses on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. She is also a co-founder and lead organizer of #BlackInPhysics, a…
1947–
Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran (born November 14, 1947) is an educator and academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Kalamazoo College, succeeding James F. Jones. She was the first female president, as well as the first African-American…
1996
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCard number 54.7 in a series of information cards relating to major historical events in the United States. On front, the title and a photo of Federal troops integrating Little Rock Central High with a description of the event on the right and a map of the…
1939–
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (born Michael Miles Thelwell; 25 July 1939) is a Jamaican novelist, essayist, professor and civil rights activist. He was in 1970 founding chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
August 23, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of twenty-four digital files: 2011.174.104.1a, 2011.174.104.1b, 2011.174.104.1c, 2011.174.104.1d, 2011.174.104.1e, 2011.174.104.1f, 2011.174.104.1g, 2011.174.104.1h, 2011.174.104.1i, 2011.174.104.1j, 2011.174.104.1k,…
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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her work has appeared in publications…
1931–
Elaine Rose Graham Estes (born November 24, 1931) is an American retired librarian who was the Des Moines Public Library director and the first African American to have that title. Her attempt to live in the then-unintegrated Drake University dormitories…
1937–2026
Elaine Johnson Coates (September 15, 1937 – February 14, 2026) was an American social worker and educator. She was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Elaine M. O'Neal (born 1962) is an American attorney, academic administrator, judge, and politician who served as the mayor of Durham, North Carolina from 2021 to 2023. O'Neal is the city's first female African-American mayor. Prior to serving as mayor,…
1940–
Elayne Arrington (born c. 1940) is an American mathematician and engineer. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning her Ph.D., she went on to…
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Elbert Frank Cox (5 December 1895 – 28 November 1969) was an American mathematician. He was the first African American to receive a PhD in mathematics, which he earned at Cornell University in 1925.
late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOne (1) gold Elder Watson Diggs Award medal on a red and white ribbon. The crest-shaped medallion has a raised image of the face of Elder Watson Diggs. The pendant is hooked to a brass bar clip that is attached to a long red and white striped neck ribbon.…
1929–2021
Eleanor Green Dawley Jones (10 August 1929 - 1 March 2021) was an American mathematician. She was one of the first African-American women to achieve a Ph.D. in mathematics. Jones worked as a consultant for the development of college mathematics…
Biography
Eleanor Moody-Shepherd is a researcher and teacher in areas of domestic violence, women leadership and women in the bible. She was the dean of students at New York Theological Seminary and a professor of Women Studies at the seminary.
1926–1998
Eleanor Dickey Ragsdale (February 23, 1926 – May 5, 1998) was an American educator, entrepreneur, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the Phoenix area. In 2023, Ragsdale was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.
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Eleanor Young Love (October 10, 1922 – July 14, 2006) was an American librarian from Kentucky. The daughter of Whitney Young and the sister of Whitney Young Jr., she worked at the Lincoln Institute, a boarding high school for African American students…
after 1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA large electrified backlit sign with the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) logo. The logo consists of a silhouetted man with the continent of Africa at the center of a globe above the letters [NCBS]. The back of the sign is blank.
1959
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal title reads, "Scene outside Trenchard Hall at University College, Ibadan, after the congregation for the reception of graduates, which was held in Trenchard Hall as part of the Foundation Day celebrations on November 17, 1959. We would call it a…
1942–2002
Elfreda Annmary Chatman (1942–2002) was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups…
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