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1934–2010
Henry C. Lattimore (February 25, 1934 – May 18, 2010) was an American football coach. He was the 10th head football coach at Morgan State University, coaching the Bears during the 1976 and 1977 seasons. Lattimore was also the 15th head coach for the North…
1915–2007
Henry LeTang (June 19, 1915 – April 26, 2007) was an American tap dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. He won the Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway revue Black and Blue and taught performers including Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines and…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins…
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Henry Morgan Green (1877–1939) was an American physician, a national healthcare leader, researcher, scholar, real estate investor, and alderman. He served as the city physician in Knoxville, Tennessee, and president of the National Medical Association. He…
1809–1878
Henry Moxley (1809 – December 12, 1878) was an African-American businessman, religious leader and activist in Buffalo, New York. He is known for his work to promote school integration and the education of African-American children.
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Henry Nehemiah Tisdale (born 1944) is an American retired academic administrator, educator, and mathematician. He served as the 8th president of Claflin University, a historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina from 1994 to 2019. During his…
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Henry O. Wagoner (February 27, 1816 – January 27, 1901) was an abolitionist and civil rights activist in Chicago and Denver. In the 1830s, as a free black man in Maryland, he worked on a farm and worked to free slaves with a loose group of individuals that…
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Henry Plummer Cheatham (December 27, 1857 – November 29, 1935) was an educator, farmer and politician, elected as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893 from North Carolina. He was one of only five African…
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Henry P. Jacobs (July 8, 1825 – December 14, 1899) was an American politician and educator. Jacobs was born in Alabama. He escaped slavery to Canada and then moved to Michigan before settling in Natchez, Mississippi after the American Civil War.
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Henry Panion, III is an American composer, arranger, conductor, educator, and Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Panion has produced, arranged and conducted for a number of noted artists, such as Stevie Wonder,…
1871–1958
Henry Proctor Slaughter (September 17, 1871 – February 14, 1958) was an American journalist, printer, and bibliographer. Slaughter collected resources that documented African American history, with a special focus on the subjects of slavery, the…
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Henry Sylvester Williams (24 March 1867 or 15 February 1869 – 26 March 1911) was a Trinidadian lawyer, activist, councillor and writer who was among the founders of the Pan-African movement. As a young man, Williams travelled to the United States and…
1932–2020
Henry T. Brown (June 16, 1932 – February 13, 2020) was a chemical engineer and the first African American to earn a BS degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Brown was the first African American to enroll in UC's Co-Op program at a…
1934–2015
Henry Thomas Sampson Jr. (April 22, 1934 – June 4, 2015) was an American engineer, inventor and film historian who created the gamma-electric cell in 1971 — a device with the main goal of generating auxiliary power from the shielding of a nuclear reactor.…
1967–
Henry Thomas (born July 10, 1967) is a former American sprinter known for running at the high school and collegiate levels. A versatile athlete, he was successful at 100 metres through 400 metres, holding the World Youth best for 100 metres (for over 10…
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Henry L. Van Dyke Jr. (October 3, 1928 – December 22, 2011) was an American novelist, editor, teacher and musician.
1953–
Henry W. McGee (born January 22, 1953) is an American businessman and academic. He is a senior lecturer of business administration at the Harvard Business School, and the former president of HBO Home Entertainment.
1939–
Hensley W. Sapenter (born December 16, 1939) is an American former football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Prairie View A&M University from 1995 to 1996, compiling a record of 0–22. Sapenter was inducted into the…
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Herb Boyd (born November 1, 1938) is an American journalist, teacher, author, and activist. His articles appear regularly in the New York Amsterdam News, where he has served as a columnist and reporter for nearly 42 years. He is a former teacher of black…
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Herbert Henry Carnegie (November 8, 1919 – March 9, 2012) was a Canadian ice hockey player of Jamaican descent. After his playing career was over, he became a successful businessman, working in the investment industry. In 1954, he founded one of Canada's…
1977–
Herbert Donta Haygood (born December 30, 1977) is an American former college football coach and professional player. He was the head football coach at Madonna University from 2020 to 2023 before accepting a position as assistant director of admissions in…
1928–2016
Herbert Rogers Kent (October 5, 1928 – October 22, 2016) was "the longest-running DJ in the history of radio", a radio personality in Chicago, Illinois, for more than seven decades. As a high school student, Kent began hosting a classical music program for…
ca. 1900
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Herbert Clayton with some of the Buddu teachers” (Photographic prints).
1927–2002
Herbert Whittier Jones (31 January 1927 - 2 October 2002) was an American physicist and longtime professor at Florida A&M University. He was known for his research in developing methods for the evaluation of overlap and Coulomb integrals over Slater-type…
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