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1865–1903
Harris Martin (April 2, 1865 – April 26, 1903) was an American boxer known as "The Black Pearl". He declared himself the first colored middleweight champion of the world after a fight with "Black Frank" Taylor in Minneapolis in 1887. Harris' legacy is that…
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Harrison Bryce Jordan Barnes (born May 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels before being selected by…
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William Harrison "Bones" Dillard (July 8, 1923 – November 15, 2019) was an American track and field athlete, who is the only male in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in both the 100 meter (sprints) and the 110 meter hurdles, making him the…
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Harry Leslie Aikines-Aryeetey (born 29 August 1988) is an English former Commonwealth sprinter and television personality, known for appearing as "Nitro" in the BBC sports endurance competition series Gladiators. He has also taken part in BBC Radio 5's…
1898–1966
Harry Cornelius Graves (April 25, 1898 – January 3, 1966) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute—now known as Virginia State University in 1923, and Wilberforce…
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Harry Francis Vincent Edward (15 April 1898 – 8 July 1973), known as Harry Edward, was a German-British athlete in track; in 1920 he was Britain's first black Olympian and the first black person to win Olympic medals. He represented the UK and competed in…
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Harry Thomas Edwards (born November 22, 1942) is an American sociologist and civil rights activist. After working as an assistant professor of sociology at San Jose State College, he completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University and is Professor Emeritus of…
November 13, 2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.8.1.1 and 2025.12.8.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file (2025.12.8.1.3, .mov file).…
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Harrison Michael Ford (born February 21, 2003) is a British-American professional baseball catcher.
1965–2010
Harry Curtis Galbreath (January 1, 1965 – July 27, 2010) was an American professional football player who played several seasons in the National Football League (NFL), initially with the Miami Dolphins, and later with the Green Bay Packers and New York…
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Harry Winston Jerome (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.
1897–1945
Harry J. "Little" Long (December 28, 1897 – December 8, 1945) was an American college football coach and professor of biology. The brother of Fred T. Long, he was born in Decatur, Illinois and graduated from Decatur High School in 1915. He enrolled at the…
1899–1966
Harry Rupert "Big Jeff" Jefferson (May 12, 1899 – April 24, 1966) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Wilberforce University (1923), Bluefield State College…
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Harry Reed was a comedian in the United States. He was African American. He entered show business in 1892. He performed with his father Cicero Reed in a show titled Silence and Fun. He was afterwards part of comedy team McCarver, Reed and McCarver with…
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Harry Leon "Suitcase" Simpson (December 3, 1925 – April 3, 1979) was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Pirates…
1900–1965
Harry G. "Wu Fang" Ward (1900 – May 26, 1965) was an American college and professional athlete in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Harry Wills (May 15, 1889 – December 21, 1958) was an American heavyweight boxer who held the World Colored Heavyweight Championship three times. Many boxing historians consider Wills the most egregious victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight…
Biography
The Hart family murders were a murder–suicide that took place on March 26, 2018, in Mendocino County, California, United States. Jennifer Hart (38) and her wife, Sarah Hart (38), killed themselves and their six adopted children: Ciera (12), Abigail (14),…
2004–
Harvey Araujo (born 7 November 2004) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL League One club Burton Albion.
2003–
Harvey Antonio Blair (born 14 September 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Portsmouth.
1937–2021
Harvey Alfred Branch (February 8, 1937—January 15, 2021) was an American professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher who had a seven-year career in minor league baseball, but whose Major League tenure consisted of a single game in the…
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Harvey Edward Glance (March 28, 1957 – June 12, 2023) was an American sprint runner. He won gold medals in tandem with his teammates at the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1979 and 1987 Pan American Games, and 1987 World Championships.
1967–
Harvey Jerome Pulliam (born October 20, 1967) is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals (1991-1993) and Colorado Rockies (1995-1997). He also played two seasons in Japan for the Orix BlueWave (1998-1999) In 1989,…
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Hasim Sharif Rahman (born November 7, 1972) is an American professional boxer. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBC, IBF, IBO and lineal titles in 2001; and the WBC title again from 2005 to 2006. He was ranked as a top…
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