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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…
1932–2020
Florence Tina "Gloria" Cameron (27 June 1932 – 15 March 2020) was a Jamaican-born British community worker, playwright, activist and promoter of West Indian culture. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she emigrated to England as part of the "Windrush…
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…
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…
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.
Biography
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…
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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.
1922–2021
Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern…
1950–2008
Gloria Taylor (March 1951 – 7 April 2008) was a Nigerian activist whose 10-year-old son, Damilola Taylor, was brutally attacked and murdered by two youths in a vicious attack at the North Peckham Estate of south London in November 2000. Her son's murder…
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Gloristine Brown is an American politician and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for the 8th district, which includes Pitt County. A Democrat, she was first elected in 2022 in the 2022 North Carolina House of Representatives election…
October 16, 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black-and-white photograph depicts a man in a Civil War uniform and kepi carrying an American flag over his shoulder. His jacket is double breasted with shoulder bars and his kepi has a bugle patch on it. The man is turned slightly away from the…
1913–1997
Gloster B. Current (1913 – July 3, 1997) was deputy executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Director of Branches and Field Administration of the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement.…
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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…
n.d.
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGColor illustrated promotional booklet titled "Go Pullman" issued by The Pullman Company. Inside the booklet is a complete and detailed list of services and conveniences supplied by Pullman that offers travel at "fine hotel" standards. Also inside is a…
1950-1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a Vera Whistler gold and white fabric hat (.1) and hatbox (.2ab). The hat (.1) has a gold-colored crown. The gold fabric around the forehead is sewn in tight horizontal gathers. The rest of the crown material is smooth. A brim composed of white…
2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a gold-colored wine glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It consists of a gold-colored conical shaped bowl with a diagonal ridges in the glass swirling down towards the base of the bowl. At the base is a small clear ring of glass, followed by…
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…
Biography
Gord McNeilly is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election. He represents the district of Charlottetown-West Royalty as a member of the Liberal Party of…
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…
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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…
1943–
Gordon Sinclair Earle (born February 27, 1943) is a Canadian politician. Earle is a member of the New Democratic Party and a former member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Halifax West from 1997 to 2000. Earle is the first…
1961–
Gordon Dennis Fox (born December 21, 1961) is an American attorney and politician from Providence, Rhode Island. He served formerly as the Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, before resigning in disgrace. A member of the Democratic Party,…
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Gordon M. Johnson (born December 16, 1949) is an American Democratic Party politician who has represented the 37th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate since 2022, having represented the same district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002…
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