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1916–1986
Howard Jordan Jr. (December 28, 1916 – December 2, 1986) served as president of Savannah State College from 1963 and until 1971.
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Howard K. "Brutus" Wilson (born c. 1906) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Winston-Salem Teachers College—now known as Winston-Salem State University—in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from…
1932–2018
Howard Douglas McCurdy (10 December 1932 – 20 February 2018) was a Canadian civil rights activist, politician and university professor. He grew up in Southwestern Ontario before moving to the Windsor, Ontario, area. He did his undergraduate work at what is…
1929–2022
Howard N. Watson (May 19th, 1929–July 15th, 2022) was an African-American watercolorist, landscape artist, illustrator and teacher. He was known for his impressionistic watercolors of historical buildings, streets, neighborhoods and landmarks in the…
1972–2019
Howard Nathan Jr. (January 21, 1972 – July 28, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Nathan attended DePaul University, Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana at Monroe) and Northwest Arkansas…
1933–2016
Howard Francis Sims, (1933–2016), was an American architect, businessperson, and philanthropist, active in Detroit. He founded the architecture firm SDG Associates (formerly Howard Sims & Associates, and later Sim–Varner). Sims helped design the state of…
1928–2021
Howard Smith (April 17, 1928 – February 4, 2021) was an American-born Finnish designer, ceramicist, multidisciplinary visual artist, and educator. Additionally he had worked a textile designer, sculptor, assemblage artist, collagist, quilter, painter, and…
1964
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover edition of Howard Thurman, Portrait of a Practical Dreamer by Elizabeth Yates. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and deckle page edges. The book’s dust jacket features a black-and-white photograph of Howard Thurman. Thurman…
2006-2014
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Howard University”.
May 17, 1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Chancellor Williams wearing a suit and sitting on a folding chair. A curtain with flowers appears behind him. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped and inscribed on the back.
1887-1895
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Howard University”.
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Howard Waring French (born October 14, 1957) is a US-American journalist, author and photographer. Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to re-entering academia, French was a longtime foreign…
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Howard Washington Jr. (born March 24, 1998) is an American-Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Buffalo eXtreme of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange.
1923–1981
Hoyt W. Fuller (September 10, 1923 – May 11, 1981) was an American editor, educator, critic, and author during the Black Arts Movement. Fuller created the Organization of Black American Culture in Chicago. In addition, he taught creative writing and…
1939–2016
Hubbard Lindsay "Axe" Alexander (February 14, 1939 – August 28, 2016) was an American college and professional football coach. As an assistant coach, he won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) and two national…
1916–1991
Hubert Arthur Eaton (1916–1991) was an American physician, civil rights activist, and tennis player in North Carolina. The son of a Winston-Salem physician, Eaton attended Johnson C. Smith University on a tennis scholarship after winning the 1933 national…
1906–1980
Hubert Branch Crouch (1906–1980) was an American zoologist and parasitologist. His efforts led to the founding of the National Institute of Science, an organization that supports research and science education at historically Black colleges and…
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Hubert Massey (born 1958) is an artist of a variety of mediums, and well known for his large-scale installations in the Buon Fresco style. Massey has 15 works of public art throughout the state of Michigan, and has been commissioned by various local…
1901–1990
Hubert Thomas Delany (; May 11, 1901 – December 28, 1990) was an American lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and politician. He served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, the first African American appointed as Tax Commissioner of New York and one of the first…
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Hue Jackson (born October 22, 1965) is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Georgia State University, a position he has held since 2024. An offensive assistant at both the collegiate and professional levels,…
1964–
Hue Alphanso Menzies (born 10 March 1964) is a football manager and former player. Menzies is most well known for leading the Jamaica women's national team to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as its head coach and technical director, which was the first…
1964; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a young boy smiling and holding up fliers with his proper left hand in New York City. He is standing in front of a brick building with a metal gate on the left. The young boy is wearing a dark color…
1918–1991
Huey Jefferson Battle (October 31, 1918 – January 23, 1991) was an American economist who was an economics professor and administrator at Langston University and Virginia State University. He was the first African-American in Oklahoma to earn a doctoral…
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Hugh Heyne Smythe (August 19, 1913 – June 22, 1977) was an American author, sociologist, diplomat and professor. He was the tenth African-American ambassador and the first to a Middle Eastern country.
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