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1959
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA short-sleeved beige baseball jersey. There are seven (7) clear plastic buttons going down the center front of the jersey on the proper right side and the buttonholes are on the proper left side. The jersey reads [GIANTS] across the front with the "GIA"…
1922–2015
Sanco King Rembert (November 11, 1922–August 14, 2015) was an American Anglican bishop notable for being the first African-American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church. Consecrated in 1966 to assist in the REC's Missionary Jurisdiction of the South, he…
1934–
Sandra Bundy (born March 12, 1934) is best known for her part in landmark case Bundy v. Jackson, which was the first federal appeals court case to hold that workplace sexual harassment was employment discrimination and a violation of the Civil Rights Act…
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Sandra Glover, née Cummings (December 30, 1968, in Palestine, Texas) is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400-meter hurdles. She was a medalist in that event at the World Championships in Athletics in 2003 (silver) and 2005…
1956–
Sandra Gray is a fashion and costume designer known particularly for her work designing and building costumes for wrestling.
1944–2023
Sandra Reaves-Phillips (December 23, 1944 – December 29, 2023) was an American actress, writer, and singer. Reaves-Phillips was born in Mullins, South Carolina, and made her Broadway debut as Mama Younger in the 1973 musical Raisin. She later performed in…
1877–1968
Sanford Augustus Brookins (1877–1968), also known as Sanford Augustus Brookings, was an American architect, builder, and businessperson. In the early 20th century, he was one of two African-American architect-builders in Jacksonville, Florida. He was…
ca. 1965
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Santa Clara track singlet. A golden yellow sleeveless shirt. The two sides have a rounded slit at the bottom. There are green letters sewn onto the front. They read [SANTA CLARA]. There is a white manufacturer's label inside the singlet at the neck. It…
1837–1918
Sara Griffith Stanley Woodward (1837 – 1918) was an African American abolitionist, missionary teacher, and published author. Sara, sometimes listed as "Sarah", came from a biracial family, of which both black and white sides owned slaves. Despite this…
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Sara J. Hatcher Duncan (born October 5, 1869, Cahaba, Alabama, died July 18, 1906, Selma, Alabama) was an African- American social activist who was appointed President of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society…
Biography
Sara Lucy Bagby (c. 1843 – July 14, 1906) was the last person in the United States forced to return to slavery in the South under the Fugitive Slave Act. Born in the early 1840s in Virginia, she was of African American heritage.
1927–2020
Sara Penn (1927–2020) was an American designer who was the owner of Knobkerry, a clothing and antiques store, gallery, cultural center, and arts space in Downtown Manhattan from the 1960s to the 1990s. Penn designed clothes that utilized global and…
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Sara Spencer Washington (June 17, 1883 – March 23, 1953) was the founder of Apex News and Hair Company and was honored at the 1939 New York World's Fair as one of the "Most Distinguished Businesswomen" for her Apex empire of beauty products, schools, and…
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Sarah Allen (also known as Sara Allen and Mother Allen; née Bass; 1764 – July 16, 1849) was an American abolitionist and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is known within the AME Church as The Founding Mother.
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Sarah Lue Bostick (1868–1948) born Sarah Lue Howard near Glasgow, Kentucky, on May 27, 1868, was key in organizing the first African-American Christian Woman's Board of Missions auxiliary in 1892 and subsequent clubs throughout the south at the turn of the…
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Sarah Dudley Pettey (1869-1906) was an African-American educator, writer, organist, and political activist in North Carolina. She devoted her life and career to increasing gender and racial equality, Christian temperance, and women's participation in the…
1832–1894
Sarah E. Gorham (1832–1894) was the first woman to be sent out as a missionary from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She has been described as a "missionary, church leader, social worker". Gorham was born in either Maryland or Virginia, but her life…
1921–2006
Sarah Elizabeth Ray (also known as Lizz Haskell; 1921–2006) was an African American civil rights activist who in 1945 was denied entry on SS Columbia, a ferry operated by the Bob-Lo Excursion Company. She initiated a legal battle against the company via…
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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (May 18, 1840 — August 2, 1914) was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was the wife of Benjamin Tucker Tanner. She was the mother of the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and…
Biography
Sarah E. Farro was a 19th-century African American novelist. Her only known novel, True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life, was published in 1891 by Donohue & Henneberry in Chicago. Despite being only one of a handful of known African-Americans that…
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Sarah Jane Woodson Early, born Sarah Jane Woodson (November 15, 1825 – August 1907), was an American educator, black nationalist, temperance activist and author. A graduate of Oberlin College, majoring in classics, she was hired at Wilberforce University…
1844–1920
Sarah Johnson (September 29, 1844 – January 25, 1920) was an African American woman who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Fairfax, Virginia. She worked as a domestic, cleaning and caring for the residence. During the…
1876–1963
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (January 10, 1876 – January 5, 1963) was an American educator, social and community activist, playwright, poet, novelist, and the first African-American teacher in the Brooklyn school system. Her most notable published work is the…
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Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, née Loguen, (January 29, 1850 – April 9, 1933) was an American physician and pediatrician. She was the fourth female African-American physician in the United States, and the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic. The…
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