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1899–1974
Giles Owens "Unc" Wright (November 13, 1899 – July 22, 1974) was an American football, basketball, and track coach, college athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, from…
1960–
Gillian Bowser is an American wildlife ecologist, research scientist, and associate professor at Colorado State University. Her work largely centers on climate change with focuses on pollinators and citizen science.
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Gina Dent (born 1966) is an American associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. She co-authored the 2022 book Abolition.
1955–
Gina Marie Higginbottom (née Awoko) is a British academic, nurse, midwife, health visitor and a specialist in international migration and maternity. She is the first nurse of black and minority ethnic (BME) origin to hold a professorial role in a Russell…
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Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood (born June 10, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. She began her career as a writer for multiple television shows in the 1990s, including the anthology series CBS Schoolbreak Special, for which she was nominated…
1963–
Gina Spivey-Brown (born April 4, 1963) is an American nurse and academic administrator. In 2025, she became the 12th president of Oakwood University, the first woman to hold the position in the institution's 129-year history.
1967-1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Girls carrying buckets walking through the village during a lesson at the Quranic School, Yelwa, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Girls' Dance Troupe at Twenty-Fifth University of Ibadan Celebration, Ibadan, Western State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1899
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA stereograph produced by Underwood & Underwood, dated 1899, of an outdoor scene titled: [Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage / Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman]. The stereograph is rectangular in…
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Gisele Olivia Thompson (born December 2, 2005) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a right back for Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Thompson and her older sister, Alyssa,…
Biography
Giselle Corbie-Smith is an American physician who is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Provost of…
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Gladys-Marie Fry (April 6, 1931 – November 7, 2015) was Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and a leading authority on African American textiles. Fry earned her bachelor's and master's degrees…
1920–2010
Gladys Noel Bates (née Gladys Winnie Noel; March 26, 1920 – October 15, 2010) was an African-American civil rights pioneer, and educator. In 194, she filed a lawsuit, Gladys Noel Bates vs. the State of Mississippi, charging salary discrimination against…
1916–2017
Gladys Sara Wood (May 16, 1916 – August 3, 2017) was an American educator and academic administrator. She was the first African-American principal in the Boston Public Schools.
1939–
Glenda Price is an American educator and former president of Marygrove College; she was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. Price also served as the president of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation and the American Society for…
1970–
Glenn E. Martin (born October 30, 1970) is the president and founder of GEMtrainers.com, a social justice consultancy firm that partners with non-profits from across the United States to assist with fundraising, organizational development and marketing.…
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Glenn Cartman Loury (born September 3, 1948) is an American economist, academic, and author. He is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005 also as a professor of economics. At the age of 33,…
1930-1945
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGlobe of the Earth attached to a metal axis and base. Ring of metal measuring latitude circles the globe. Base is a shallow cone shape with a lipped rim around the edge. Globe features all continents and oceans with major cities and waterways depicted. In…
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Gloria Allen (October 6, 1945 – June 13, 2022) was an American transgender activist who ran a charm school for transgender youth in Chicago's Center on Halsted. Allen's school lasted only a few years — she was not paid, and she often used her own money to…
1927–2010
Gloria Blackwell, also known as Gloria Rackley (March 11, 1927 – December 7, 2010), was an African-American civil rights activist and educator. She was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1960s, attracting…
April 14, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.83.1a, 2011.174.83.1b, 2011.174.83.1c, and 2011.174.83.1d. Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union…
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Gloria C. Gilmer (née Ford; June 28, 1928 – August 25, 2021) was an American mathematician and educator, notable for being the first African American woman to publish a non-PhD thesis.
July 19, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.35.1a, 2011.174.35.1b, 2011.174.35.1c, 2011.174.35.1d, and 2011.174.35.1e. Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent…
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Gloria Jene Browne-Marshall (born December 31, 1959) is an American civil rights attorney, legal correspondent, author, playwright, essayist, and racial justice activist. She is a professor of Constitutional Law at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal…
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