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1936–2017
Gloria Johnson-Powell (born Gloria Johnson, 1936 – October 11, 2017) was a child psychiatrist who was also an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and was one of the first African-American women to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School.
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Gloria Ida Joseph (1927/1928 – August 6, 2019) was a Crucian-American academic, writer, educator, and activist. She was a self-identified radical Black feminist lesbian writer who synthesized art and activism in her work. Joseph's scholarship centered…
1947–
Gloria Jean Ladson-Billings FBA (born 1947) is an American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator known for her work in the fields of culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory, and the pernicious effects of systemic racism and economic…
1938–
Gloria Long Anderson (born November 5, 1938) is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, and its vice president for academic affairs. She has served as interim president of Morris Brown, and as vice chair of the Corporation…
1923–2011
Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Resurrections, a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of…
1950–2024
Gloria Folerin Yeside Ojulari Sule (née Ojulari; 6 November 1950 – June 2024) was a British artist and educator based in Bristol. Sule's work explored cultural identity, in particular the identities of mixed race people in the United Kingdom.
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Gloria Purvis is an African-American Catholic public scholar, speaker, author, podcaster, and activist in Washington, D.C. She has spoken and written extensively on women's rights, abortion, sex, marriage, family, religious liberty, and racial justice.
2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn archival pigment print photograph of collaged images. In the foreground of the image is a black-and-white printed paisley motif with a center cut out through which the viewer peers at a black-and-white photographic print of a woman standing with a stack…
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Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. First coming to attention as a child actor in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, Turman is known for his roles as Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera Peyton…
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Gobi (Mende?) devil performing with the Dance Troupe. The Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe during performance they gave for the new PCVs at Milton Margai Teachers College after the trainees had only been in the country a few days.…
1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGolden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine: The Saga of Harriet Tubman, "The Moses of Her People," Volume 2. The front cover of the book features a large detailed illustration of Harriet Tubman. Tubman is portrayed with her body facing the viewer but with…
1917–2020
Goldie D. Brangman-Dumpson (October 2, 1917 – February 9, 2020) was an American nurse and educator. Brangman-Dumpson was a co-founder of the school of anesthesia at Harlem Hospital, where she worked most of her career. Later, she was the director of the…
1884–1970
Gordon Blaine Hancock (June 23, 1884 – July 24, 1970) was a professor at Virginia Union University and a leading spokesman for African American equality in the generation before the civil rights movement. Hancock was a nationally syndicated columnist for…
1931–2019
Gordon Daniel Morgan (October 31, 1931 – December 17, 2019) was an American sociologist who became the first Black professor at the University of Arkansas in 1969.
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Gordon Jamison Davis (August 7, 1941 – October 4, 2026) was an American lawyer and civic leader. He was born in Chicago in 1941 and moved to New York City after his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1967, where he became a leader in New York City's…
1959–
Gordon Hawkins (born November 22, 1958) is an American baritone known for his work on both the operatic and concert stage, particularly as one of the foremost interpreters of the roles of Porgy and Crown in Porgy and Bess. His music career began in the…
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Anthony Gordon Shadrach is a Canadian artist and educator based in Toronto. Shadrach is known for exploring the semiotics of dress and its impact on culture, in particular the intersection and codification of race and fashion through his painting and…
1962
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Governor Ross Barnet wearing a suit and hat walking toward a vehicle guarded by a Mississippi police officer. A crowd of white people clap and cheer from the other side of the vehicle.
1945–
Machel served as Mozambique’s first education minister, led a landmark UN study on children in war, and is the only woman to have been first lady of two countries.
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Grace A. Mapps (c. 1835 – June 11, 1897) was an American educator, administrator and poet, who may have been the first African-American woman to graduate with a four-year college degree. Mapps graduated from New-York Central College at McGrawville in 1852,…
1883–1962
Grace Baxter Fenderson (November 2, 1883 – March 21, 1962) was an American educator and clubwoman based in Newark, New Jersey. A teacher at Monmouth Street School in Newark for over 40 years, Fenderson was a co-founder of the Newark chapter of the NAACP…
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Grace Melzia Bumbry (January 4, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, who also ventured to soprano roles. A pioneer among African-American classical singers, she gained…
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Grace E. Harris. (July 1, 1933 – February 12, 2018), was an administrator at Virginia Commonwealth University. Harris was one of the first African American faculty members hired by Virginia Commonwealth University in 1967, which initially rejected her…
1923–1989
Grace Marilyn James (1923 – 1989) was an American pediatrician in Louisville, Kentucky. When she began practicing medicine in 1953, the hospitals in Louisville were racially segregated by law. At the University of Louisville School of Medicine she was the…
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