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Gary Montez Thurman (born November 12, 1964) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played for nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, and New York Mets. He later coached…
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Gary Andrew Younge , (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for The Guardian newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointed as professor…
Biography
Gaspard Louis is a Haitian dancer, choreographer, and artistic director. A former dancer with Pilobolus, he is the founder and artistic director of the modern dance company Gaspard and Dancers. Louis is also on the faculty at North Carolina Central…
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Gaston Alonzo Edwards (1875–1943) was an American architect, educator, and academic administrator. He served as president of Kittrell College. Edwards was the first African American licensed architect in the state of North Carolina.
1903–1989
Gaston Frederick "Country" Lewis (August 4, 1903 – November 28, 1989) was an American Negro league baseball player and a college football, college basketball, track, and cross country coach. He served as the head football coach at Alabama State University…
1914
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGavel head owned by Judge Robert Terrell. The gavel handle is missing. There is a metal plaque nailed around the center of the gavel head. The metal has engraved text on scroll motifs which reads [JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL / MAY 29, 1914. / MADE BY BOYS,…
Biography
Gay Abel-Bey is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, and academic. She currently teaches at New York University.
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Gay Johnson McDougall (born August 13, 1947) is an American lawyer who has spent her career addressing international human rights and racial discrimination. She is currently a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Leitner Center on International Law…
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Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd; March 21, 1944,) is an American blues singer and guitarist, teacher, lecturer, activist, and photographer.
1962–
Gayelynn McKinney (born July 14, 1962) is an American drummer, composer, and music educator from Detroit, Michigan.
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Gaynelle Griffin Jones (November 20, 1948 – March 1, 2013) was an American jurist and lawyer who was the former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. She was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated from A. J. Moore High School. Jones…
1921–2020
Gayraud Stephen Wilmore Jr. (December 20, 1921 – April 18, 2020) was an American writer, historian, ethicist, educator, and theologian, known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement and his scholarship related to the history of the African-American…
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Geffrey Davis (born 1983) is an American poet and professor. His poetry collections include Revising the Storm (2014) and Night Angler (2019).
ca. 1910
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph of Mary Church Terrell (TA2017.13.10.2). She is depicted seated in profile from the waist up. The left side of her face is visible. She is wearing a light colored beaded and fringed evening dress. She wears her hair in a loose…
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Gemar Mills is an American author and speaker. He was the youngest ever principal of Malcolm X Shabazz High School when he took the job at the age of 27.
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Gene Andrew Jarrett (born April 21, 1975) is an American professor, literary scholar, and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Prior to his current role at Princeton, Jarrett was…
1926–2015
Gene-Ann Polk Horne (October 3, 1926 – January 3, 2015), known professionally as Gene-Ann Polk, was an American physician and hospital administrator, director of pediatric ambulatory care at Harlem Hospital, and a professor of pediatrics at Columbia…
1926–2023
Eugene Derricotte (June 14, 1926 – March 31, 2023) was an American college football player who was a halfback and return specialist for the Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the first African-American athletes at the University of…
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Gene Smith is a former American college administrator and former college football player and coach who was most recently senior vice president and Athletic Director for Ohio State University. He was named the university's eighth athletic director on March…
2009-2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “General Colin L. Powell Elementary School in El Paso, Texas”.
2002
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “General Powell with high school students”.
1925–2004
Frances Geneva Handy Southall (December 5, 1925 – January 2, 2004) was an American musicologist, pianist, and college professor.
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Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an American educator, social activist and author. Since 1990, Canada has been president of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization that states its goal is to increase high school and…
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George Arthur Roberts (1 August 1891 – 8 January 1970) was a Trinidadian soldier, firefighter, and community leader in Great Britain. He served in the First World War, where he became known as the "Coconut bomber" and went on to become a firefighter during…
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