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1943–2017
Gwendolyn Marie Patton (October 14, 1943 – May 11, 2017) was a prominent civil rights activist and educator. Patton's first steps into the civil rights movement were with the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) where she helped African Americans…
1965–
Gwendolyn Lenna Torrence (born June 12, 1965) is a retired American sprinter and Olympic champion. She was born in Decatur, Georgia. She attended Columbia High School and the University of Georgia. She was offered a scholarship because of her athletic…
1943–2011
Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee (August 31, 1943 – April 27, 2011) was an African-American fiber artist. Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the…
September 14, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.47.1a and 2011.174.47.1b. Gwendolyn Duncan recalls her family history in Saint Augustine, Florida, watching a Ku Klux Klan parade through the black neighborhood of Lincolnville, and integrating a…
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd (born December 27, 1955) is an American scientist and university administrator. She served as president of Alabama State University from 2014 to 2016. Before entering administration, she worked as a mechanical engineer at the Johns…
1931–2019
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker (December 31, 1931 – March 7, 2019) was an educator, activist, and nonprofit executive.
1939–2021
Gwendolyn Killebrew (August 26, 1941 – December 24, 2021) was an American operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano who worked in Germany and internationally, including the Metropolitan Opera and the Bayreuth Festival. She performed in the 1971 world premiere…
June 1, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.20.1a, 2011.174.20.1b, 2011.174.20.1c, 2011.174.20.1d, 2011.174.20.1e, 2011.174.20.1f, 2011.174.20.1g, and 2011.174.20.1h. Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she…
1946–
Gwendolyn Sneed O'Neal (1946 – June 12, 2024) was an American academic administrator and home economist who served as the interim president of Bennett College in 2019. She was a professor and head of the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies…
1925–1999
Gwendolyn Rosetta Capps Lightner (1925 – August 22, 1999) was an American gospel pianist, arranger, and choir director and an influential figure within the Los Angeles gospel community. She was best known for her work as accompanist for Mahalia Jackson,…
Biography
Gwendolyn Stiggins Cruzat (born c. 1930) is professor emerita of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies. Her teaching and scholarship made significant contributions to medical librarianship.
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Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons (born August 9, 1944, as Gwendolyn Robinson) is an American activist and retired academic. She is senior lecturer emerita at the University of Florida since her retirement in 2019. Her research has explored Islamic feminism and…
September 14, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.49.1a, 2011.174.49.1b, 2011.174.49.1c, 2011.174.49.1d, and 2011.174.49.1e. Gwendolyn Simmons, Ph.D. recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman…
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Gyasi A. Zardes (born September 2, 1991) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. Born in Hawthorne, California, Zardes was part of the LA Galaxy youth academy before playing college soccer for Cal State Bakersfield. After…
1944–
Gylbert Coker (Gylbert Garvin Coker; b. 1944) is an African-American art historian, artist, and curator who has worked to establish Black artists and art in the canon of American art. Coker was an early member of Where We At, a group of Black women artists…
[ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOrginal caption reads, "H.E. G.B. Hadden-Smith and Chiefs of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone at Foundation Stone laying for School at Bo. 13th September 1905. A. Lisk-Carew, Photo. Freetown, Sierra Leone.".
1960–2020
H. G. Carrillo (born Herman Glenn Carroll; April 26, 1960 – April 20, 2020) was an American fiction writer and academic. In the 1990s, he began writing as "H. G. Carrillo" and he eventually adopted that identity in his private life as well. Carroll…
1909–1992
Howard Naylor Fitzhugh (1909–1992) was an American academic and one of the first African-American graduates of Harvard Business School. Fitzhugh is credited with creating the concept of target marketing.
1943–
Haywood Patrick Swygert (born March 17, 1943) was the president of Howard University in Washington, D.C., from 1995 until 2008.
Biography
Hameed Sharif "Herukhuti" Williams is an American cultural studies scholar whose work focuses on sex research and education. He is also a systems theorist, culture and interdisciplinary social scientist, journalist and public speaker who has written about…
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Hightower Theodore Kealing, also known as H.T. Kealing (April 1, 1859 – February 25, 1918) was a writer, educator, and prominent member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Born as the son of former slaves, Kealing was among the first generation of…
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Haben Girma (born July 29, 1988) is an American disability rights advocate, who was the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School.
1981–
Hadiyah-Nicole Green (1981-) is an American medical physicist, known for the development of a method using laser-activated nanoparticles as a potential cancer treatment. She is one of 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between…
1978–
Nicolas "Hakeem" Kashama (born February 22, 1978) is a former professional gridiron football defensive end. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football for the Connecticut Huskies.
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