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Harold L. Martin Sr. (born October 22, 1951) is an American engineer and educator who is Chancelor Emeritus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. A graduate of North Carolina…
1940–2020
Harold McDonald Brathwaite (June 1, 1940 - May 31, 2020) was a Barbadian-Canadian educator and school administrator.
1931–2002
Harold Ralph Lewis, Jr., (7 June 1931 - 25 March 2002) was an American physicist, researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and professor at Dartmouth College. Lewis worked on Project Sherwood and conducted research in nuclear physics and plasma…
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Harold Russell Scott Jr. (6 September 1935–16 July 2006) was an American stage director, actor and educator, who broke racial barriers in American theatre. Scott first became known for his work as an electrifying stage actor with a piercing voice, and…
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Harold Thomas Pinkett (April 7, 1914 – March 13, 2001) was an African-American archivist and historian. In 1942, he became the first African-American archivist employed at the National Archives of the United States. He was also the first African-American…
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Harriet Alfarata Chapman Thompson (1871 – June 9, 1922) was an American author of the utopian novel Idealia: A Utopia Dream; Or, Resthaven (1922). Harriet Alfarata Chapman was born in Albany, New York, one of five children of African-Americans John R.…
1941–
Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas (born 1941) is a United States diplomat and university professor who directs the Diplomacy Program under International and Global Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida. From 2000 to 2002, Thomas…
1907–2009
Harriet Elizabeth Brown (sometimes called "Libby") (February 10, 1907 — January 1, 2009) was a Calvert County schoolteacher who pushed for equal pay, regardless of race, in Maryland education. With the help of NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, Brown sued…
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Harriet Elizabeth Byrd (April 20, 1926 – January 27, 2015) was an American politician and educator from Wyoming who was the first African-American elected to the Wyoming Legislature.
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Harriet Evans Paine (c. 1822–1917) was a Texas storyteller and oral historian. She was born a slave and was also known as "Aunt Harriet."
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Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1868 – February 21, 1941) was an American pianist, writer, and music educator.
Born 1801
Harriet Hemings (May 1801 – after 1822) was born into slavery at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, in the first year of his presidency. Most historians believe her father was Jefferson, who is believed to have…
1885–1967
Harriet Josephine Terry (February 4, 1885 - August 15, 1967) was one of the sophomores founders of 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first sorority founded by African-American women. Terry was foremost an educator, for more than 30 years at the…
1885–1966
Harriet Beecher Stowe Marble (May 2, 1885 – January 12, 1966) was an early African-American woman pharmacist and the first in Kentucky, gaining her degree from Meharry Medical College in 1906. She practiced in pharmacies in several states before…
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Harriett Alleyne Rice (1866–1958) was the first African American to graduate from Wellesley College. During World War I, Dr. Rice served with the Service de Santé, the French Medical Corps.
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Lieutenant Colonel Harriet M. Waddy (also known as Harriet West; 1904 – 1999) was an American military officer. She graduated from Kansas State University and worked as an aide for Mary McLeod Bethune. During World War II, she attained the rank of major in…
1902–1952
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore (June 19, 1902 – January 3, 1952) was an American educator and civil rights worker. She was the wife of Harry T. Moore, who founded the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in…
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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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Harrison N. Bouey (August 4, 1849 – December 15, 1909) was a minister in South Carolina, Alabama, and Missouri and a missionary in Liberia. He was noted as a leader in efforts to help Africans emigrate to Africa at the end of reconstruction in the 1870s.…
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Harrison H. Truhart. (b. about 1840 Virginia - 1912) was a blacksmith and state legislator in Mississippi serving as a representative from 1872 to 1875. In 1872 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives to represent Holmes County,…
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 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).…
1942–
Harry G. Robinson III (born January 18, 1942) is an American architect, and professor of architecture and Dean Emeritus of the School of Architecture and Design at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts…
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