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1878–1963
Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor who held several United States patents. He is credited with developing and improving inventions such as a beer tap, a modification of an automatic gear shift…
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Richard Theodore Greener (January 30, 1844 – May 2, 1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. In 1870, he became the first black undergraduate at Harvard University to…
Inventing by age 13
A young Maasai inventor, Turere used electrical parts and solar charging to build flashing lights that deterred lions from his family's cattle enclosure, helping protect livestock and wildlife.
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Rick Antonius Kittles (born in Sylvania, Georgia, United States) is an American biologist specializing in human genetics and a Senior Vice President for Research at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He is of African-American ancestry, and achieved renown…
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Derrick Allen Mahorn (born September 21, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played power forward and center for the Washington Bullets, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers, and the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball…
1959–
Richard Charles Pierce (born August 19, 1959) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Deuces" and "Big Paper Daddy", he was selected as an NBA All-Star (1991) and was twice the NBA Sixth Man of the Year (1987, 1990) while with the…
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Rita Orji is a Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist, Full Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Persuasive Technology at Dalhousie University. where she directs the Persuasive Computing Lab . She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and a…
1977–
Robert (Rob) Gore (born 1977) is an American emergency physician and the founder of the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI). He is a clinical assistant professor at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. He was an inaugural TED Resident…
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Robert Thomas Greenfield IV (also known as Robby Greenfield) is an American businessman, activist, philanthropist and former college athlete. He is the founder of the financial technology company Umoja Labs, formerly known as Emerging Impact, and serving…
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Robert A. Winn is an American pulmonologist who is the Cancer Center Director at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Senior Associate Dean for Cancer Research Innovation at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. His research considers the cellular…
September 14, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.48.1a, 2011.174.48.1b, 2011.174.48.1c, 2011.174.48.1d, 2011.174.48.1e, and 2011.174.48.1f. Robert Hayling, D.D recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental…
1990–
Robert Bailey Jr. (born October 28, 1989) is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child, Bailey appeared in films Mission to Mars (2000) and Dragonfly (2002), and acted in various television series during the late 1990s and 2000s. As an adult,…
1965–
Robert Beckford (born 1965) is a British academic theologian and currently Professor and Head of the department of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Wolverhampton with associate roles as a Professor of Black Theology at The Queen's…
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Robert Benjamin Hayes (May 13, 1876–?) was an American educator, academic administrator and college president. He headed Philander Smith College's natural science department, and served as the president of George R. Smith College from 1916 until 1925.
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Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - February 1858) was a writer of mixed African-American and Native American descent known for writing Light and Truth. He also was an entrepreneur, successfully marketing hair oil and other commodities, and also held three…
1935–2022
Robert Louis Bowser (December 13, 1935 – April 2, 2022) was an American city planner, traffic engineer and 12th mayor of East Orange, New Jersey, a position he held from 1998 to 2014. He was the first 3-term African American Mayor of East Orange, New…
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Robert Tecumseh Burt (November 25, 1873 – August 16, 1955) was an African-American medical doctor, surgeon, and teacher. He operated an infirmary and later the only hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee from 1906 to 1916.
1947–2023
Robert Charles Smith (February 12, 1947 - April 13, 2023) was a political science professor at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He is known for his scholarship on race and politics in the United States, about which he has written several books. The…
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Robert Clifton Weaver (December 29, 1907 – July 17, 1997) was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly…
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Robert Campbell (7 May 1829 – 19 January 1884) was a Jamaican-born emigrant from the United States to Lagos Colony who wrote books and published a newspaper. Initially apprenticed to a printer he trained as a teacher in Spanish Town. Finding his salary…
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Robert Lee Curbeam Jr. (born March 5, 1962) is a former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy. He currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight, accomplished during the STS-116 mission, when Curbeam completed…
1927–1989
Robert Anderson Ellis Jr. (1927 – 15 December 1989) was an American physicist and head of experimental projects at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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Robert Fulton Boyd (July 8, 1855 – July 20, 1912) was an African-American medical doctor, professor, politician, and one of the co-founders of the National Medical Association, serving as its first president between 1895 and 1898. He also researched the…
1839–1919
Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an American inventor and Union sailor in the American Civil War. He was the first crew member aboard the USS Housatonic to spot the H.L. Hunley before it sank the USS Housatonic.
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