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Peter Charles Bore (born 4 November 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender, winger and striker. He began his career with his hometown club Grimsby Town, having been promoted to the first team for the beginning of the…
1902–1966
Peter DuConge (1902-1966) was an American jazz reedist, active in the early New Orleans jazz scene. DuConge was raised in a musical family. His father was a journeyman barber, and had a bass, singing voice.
Dates not recorded
Peter Durrett (c. 1733–1823) (also appeared in records as Peter Duerrett) was an enslaved Baptist preacher, who with his wife founded the First African Baptist Church of Lexington, Kentucky, by 1790. By his death, the congregation totaled nearly 300…
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Peter Farley Fossett (June 5, 1815 – January 3, 1901) was an enslaved laborer at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's plantation, who after he attained his freedom in the mid-19th century, settled in Cincinnati where he established himself as a minister and…
1942–2011
Peter John Gomes (May 22, 1942 – February 28, 2011) was an American Mainline Protestant preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church — in the words of…
1999–
Peter Kioso (born 15 August 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a wing-back for EFL League One club Oxford United. Born in Ireland, he represents DR Congo internationally.
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Peter Ogden (died 1852) was the founder of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. This fraternal order was a Benefit society open to African American men and was heavily involved with the early civil rights movement. Ogden was born in the West…
Biography
Peter P. Jones was a photographer and filmmaker in the United States. He established the Peter P. Jones Film Company in Chicago in 1914 and filmed African American subjects including vaudeville acts and the 1915 National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln…
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Peter Quire (June 15, 1806–May 5, 1899) was an American abolitionist, community leader, cobbler, and church founder. He was a member of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a child; and later with his wife Harriet, he was a founder of…
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Peter Sewally (December 12, 1803 – after 1853) was an American transgender sex worker who presented as a woman under names including Mary Jones. According to The Sun, they would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine…
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Peter Spencer (1782–1843) was an American freedman who in 1813 founded the Union Church of Africans in Wilmington, Delaware. The denomination is now known as the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, or A.U.M.P. Church for…
1801–1868
Peter Still (February 22, 1801 – January 10, 1868), was an American former slave, who secured his own freedom in 1850 and subsequently collected enough money to purchase the freedom of his wife and three children in 1854. His efforts were documented in the…
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Peter Thomas Stanford (February 21, 1858 – May 20, 1909) was an African American religious minister and writer, born enslaved near Hampton, Virginia. His enslavers orphaned him after selling both of his parents to other plantations before he had turned…
1978
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Peter Tosh; another drawing in the Flamingo Club in Makeni. Taken Nov. 1978 during P.C. Agriculture Training at Mabonto. The date on the slide is FEB 79.".
1952–2024
Peter Jonathan Westbrook (April 16, 1952 – November 29, 2024) was an American saber fencer. He was a 13-time national and 3-time Pan American Games saber champion, five-time Olympian, and an Olympic bronze medalist. He founded the Peter Westbrook…
1780–1840
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had…
1931–1984
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. (January 23, 1931 – January 10, 1984), was an American television and radio talk-show host. A two-time Emmy Award-winner, Greene overcame drug addiction and a prison sentence for armed robbery to become one of the most…
December 19, 1780
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA petition to the court of Bristol County, Massachusetts, in Taunton written by an unidentified hand and signed by John Cuffe and Paul Cuffe. The text is handwritten in black ink on the front and back sides of a single sheet of off-white paper. The…
1920–2002
Petra Allende (June 29, 1920 – April 1, 2002) was a Puerto-Rican factory worker and clerk, who worked as an activist in New York City's El Barrio neighborhood. In the 1960s, she began working to overturn laws which required literacy to vote. In the 1970s,…
ca. 1840
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handsewn tucked petticoat with embroidered detailing. The white petticoat has a tie closure at the waist. The lower half of the petticoat has multiple tiers of tucked detailing alternating with rows of embroidered flora. Along the hem is more elaborate…
late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA petticoat used by the Black Fashion Museum as a prop for a wedding dress. The petticoat is made from synthetic organza and is entirely machine stitched. The waistband is finished with zig zag stitches. A seam below knee length secures an additional panel…
1891
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA dark-stained oak church pew with decoratively carved top crowns and sculptured ends. A brass plaque on the end identifies it as number 58.
1958; printed 2009
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack and white photograph of a young African American boy seated in an empty church pew. The image was captured in 1958 but was printed from the original negative in 2009. The photographic print is signed and dated by the photographer, George Krause, in…
mid 20th-late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPewter and copper glazed twill cotton scarf designed by Arthur McGee. The scarf may be designed as a head wrap, neck wrap, or a waist sash. It has angled ends with the center portion made from the copper and the outer portions made from the pewter. It is…
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