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Historical photographs & documents

Hattie Brown home video #2

2000-07

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Presentation about kidney transplants and the healthcare system. Presnetation on WMD Financial and Transfer Networks.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20171212_Brown_VHS_02
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Historical photographs & documents

Hattie Brown home video #3

1986

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"Alice Deal 1986 Promotional Exercises." Award ceremony for junior high school students.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20171212_Brown_VHS_03
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Biography & Culture

Hattie Elam Briscoe

1916–2002

Hattie Ruth Elam Briscoe (November 12, 1916 – October 17, 2002) was recognized as being the first African American woman to enroll in and graduate from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. She was also the first black woman to…

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Music

Haydain Neale

1970–2009

Haydain Neale (September 3, 1970 – November 22, 2009) was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. He was best known as the lead singer of the band jacksoul. Neale also served on the faculty of the Humber College Summer Songwriting Workshop and…

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Sports & Achievement

Haywood Scissum

1924–1995

Haywood Scissum (November 19, 1924 – August 28, 1995) was an American football coach. He was the 11th head football coach at Tuskegee Institute—now known as Tuskegee University—in Tuskegee, Alabama, serving for 11 seasons, from 1970 to 1980, a comping a…

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Education & Scholarship

Hazel Browne Williams

1907–1986

Hazel Browne Williams (February 9, 1907 – July 7, 1986) was an American educator. She was the first full-time African American professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the first African American awarded emeritus status there.

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Scholarship

Hazel Carby

1948–

Hazel Vivian Carby (born 15 January 1948 in Okehampton, Devon) is Professor Emerita of African American Studies and of American Studies. She served as Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale…

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Education & Scholarship

Hazel Hainsworth Young

1905–2009

Hazel Anne Hainsworth Young (September 12, 1905 – July 3, 2009) was an American educator, clubwoman, and centenarian, based in Houston, Texas. She taught Latin in segregated schools for several decades.

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Music

Hazel Harrison

1883–1969

Hazel Harrison (May 12, 1883 – April 29, 1969) was an American concert pianist. She was the first fully American-trained musician to appear with a European orchestra. Harrison was born in La Porte, Indiana, and spent most of her childhood home schooled;…

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Education

Hazel Harvey Peace

1907–2008

Hazel Bernice Harvey Peace (August 4, 1907 – June 8, 2008) was an African-American educator, activist, and humanitarian in Fort Worth, Texas. The namesake of an elementary school, municipal building, and library youth center in Fort Worth, Peace overcame…

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Medicine & Health

Hazel Johnson-Brown

1927–2011

Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the…

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Education & Scholarship

Hazel M. Walker

1889–1980

Hazel Mountain Walker (February 16, 1889 – May 16, 1980) was among the first African-American women to pass the Ohio bar.

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Politics & Public Life

Hazel R. O'Leary

1937–

Hazel Reid O'Leary (born May 17, 1937) is an American lawyer, politician, and university administrator who served as the 7th United States secretary of energy from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Leary was the first woman and first…

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Headmistress and friend by pool at Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)

1983

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Cataloged as “Headmistress and friend by pool at Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-066674
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Headmistress and friend in front of Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)

1983

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Cataloged as “Headmistress and friend in front of Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-066676
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Headmistress in front of Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)

1983

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Cataloged as “Headmistress in front of Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-066671
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Headscarf of a Muslim Girl Training school uniform worn by Nadiyah Nasir

1968

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Beige head scarf made of synthetic fabric. Scarf in the shape of a half-circle with the forehead portion at the horizontal edge. Two smaller flaps are attached to the forehead section and wrap around the base of the neck.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.221.1.3
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Headscarves worn by Mélisande Short-Colomb at Georgetown University convocation

ca. 2017

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Two headscarves worn together. One, blue with a flower pattern and cut edges, was worn under the second. The second scarf is longer and features a multi-colored pattern. The second scarf is well-worn and has some tears and frays along its seams.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.10.2.1-.2
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Science & Inventions

Heidi M. Anderson

Biography

Heidi Milia Anderson is an American academic administrator serving as the president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore since September 2018. Under her leadership, the university has received major funding, with $38 Million in total fundraising in…

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Sports & Achievement

Heishma Northern

Dates not recorded

Heishma Northern is an American former college football coach. He was the head football coach for Prairie View A&M University from 2011 to 2014. He also coached for Glen Oaks High School, Morehouse, Grambling State, and Texas Southern.

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Music

Heitor dos Prazeres

1898–1966

Heitor dos Prazeres (23 September 1898 — Rio de Janeiro, 4 October 1966) was a Brazilian composer, singer and painter. He was a pioneer samba composer and participated in the first samba schools in Brazil. Later in life he became known by his paintings.

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Literature

Helen Elaine Lee

1959–

Helen Elaine Lee (born 1959) is the Director of the Program in Women's & Gender Studies and Professor of Fiction Writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Education & Scholarship

Helen Elise Smith Dett

1888–1950

Helen Elise Smith Dett (April 1888 – 2 October 1950) was an American pianist and music educator, the wife of composer Robert Nathaniel Dett. She was the first black graduate of the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard School) and co-founder of…

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