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1938–2011
Eugene Emerson Eubanks (June 6, 1938 – November 20, 2011) was an American professor and school administrator focused on school desegregation. He was a longtime professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City's School of Education, eventually becoming…
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Eugene Haynes (1927– 5 February 2007) was an American classical pianist, composer and music pedagogue. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1944, where he played piano to classmate Miles Davis' trombone.
1907–1936
Eugene James Bragg (1907 – January 24, 1936) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes—now known as Florida A&M University—in Tallahassee, Florida,…
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Eugene M. DeLoatch (born 1936) in Piermont, New York, is an American academic in engineering education. DeLoatch's career has sought to expose historically marginalized communities to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). DeLoatch…
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Eugene Omoruyi (born February 14, 1997) is a Nigerian-Canadian professional basketball player for Beşiktaş of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Oregon Ducks.
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Eugene A. Profit is an American investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and former American football cornerback for the New England Patriots and Washington Redskins. He is the founder, president, CEO, and portfolio manager of Profit Investment Management,…
1961
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Eulogy to Walter Ernest Merrick a devoted member Of The Karma Club delivered by Jerry Adamson [Photocopy]” (Text).
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Eunice Cheryl Lee (born 1970) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Born in West Germany, she attended Ohio State University and Yale Law School. In 2021, she was…
1846–1887
Eunice P. Shadd, also known as Eunice Lindsay (1846 – January 4, 1888), was an American-Canadian physician born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chatham, Ontario. She was the first black woman to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.
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Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (September 11, 1890 – July 25, 1980) was an American mathematician and educator. She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from the Catholic University of America in 1943.
1845–1931
Eustace Edward Green Sr. (1845-1931) was an American politician and educator from North Carolina, he was also a medical doctor in Georgia.
March 12, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.72.1a, 2011.174.72.1b, 2011.174.72.1c, 2011.174.72.1d, 2011.174.72.1e, 2011.174.72.1f, and 2011.174.72.1g. Euvester Simpson discusses her childhood in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and she describes her…
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Eva C. Mitchell (August 21, 1893 – February 9, 1990) was an American educator. She was a professor of education at Hampton Institute from 1930 to 1960.
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Eva del Vakia Bowles (January 24, 1875 – June 14, 1943) was an American teacher and a Young Women's Christian Association organizer in New York City. When she began working at the New York City segregated YWCA in Harlem, she became the first black woman to…
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Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor and composer who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem…
1935–2020
Eva Lois Allmon Evans (January 14, 1935 – July 20, 2020) was an American educator based in Lansing, Michigan, and the 24th international president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Eva Roberta Coles Boone (1880–1902) was an African-American teacher and Baptist missionary from Charlottesville, Virginia, who served with her husband Clinton Caldwell Boone in what was then the Congo Free State, now the Congo.
July 7, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.29.1a, 2011.174.29.1b, 2011.174.29.1c, 2011.174.29.1d, 2011.174.29.1e, 2011.174.29.1f, 2011.174.29.1g, 2011.174.29.1h, and 2011.174.29.1i. Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and…
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Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986) is an American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. Ewing is an associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her academic research in the sociology of education includes her 2018 book,…
1953–
Eve Juliet Higginbotham (born November 4, 1953) is an American ophthalmologist and medical school administrator. Born in New Orleans to parents who were public school teachers, Higginbotham studied chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of…
1924–2023
Evelyn Boyd Granville (May 1, 1924 – June 27, 2023) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University.…
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (born 1945) is an American academic who is professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Higginbotham wrote…
1919–2017
Evelyn Freeman Roberts (February 13, 1919 – May 5, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and educator. After an early career as a swing band and gospel choir leader, she and her husband, Tommy Roberts, established the Young Saints foundation…
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Evelyn LaRue Pittman (January 6, 1910 – December 1992) was an American composer, choral director and music educator.
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