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Hugh Mason Browne (1851–1923) was an American educator and civil rights activist who served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth (now the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) from 1902 to 1913. Browne was born and raised in Washington, D. C., and…
1847–1896
Hugh M. Foley (January 25, 1847 – 1896) was an American teacher, storekeeper, minister, farmer, newspaper publisher, and politician in Mississippi. He served as a Wilkinson County Board of Supervisor, and in the Mississippi House of Representatives from…
1889–1983
Hulda Margaret Lyttle Frazier (1889–August 7, 1983) was an American nurse educator and hospital administrator who spent most of her career in Nashville, Tennessee at Meharry Medical College School of Nursing and affiliated Hubbard Hospital. Lyttle…
1940–2022
Ian Desmond Gosford Hall (18 January 1940 – 11 May 2022) was a Guyanese-born British musician, composer, organist and educator. Also a human rights activist, Hall was quoted in 2003 as saying: "My real thing in life has been promoting racial harmony…
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ibadan University campus” (Slides (photographs)).
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ibadan University campus, veranda posts” (Slides (photographs)).
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ibadan University Protestant Church” (Slides (photographs)).
1952–2016
Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé (19 December 1952 – 9 February 2016), formerly known as Elias Farajajé-Jones, was a queer theologian, AIDS activist, scholar, spiritual leader, academic and professor. In 2023 a festschrift entitled Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman…
Biography
Ibrahim I. Cissé is a Nigerien-American biophysicist. He is currently director of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. Previously, Cissé was at the California Institute of Technology as Professor of Physics and the Massachusetts…
April 3, 2024
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with community organizer and activist Ibrahim Mumin. It consists of three versions of digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.16.1.1 and 2025.12.16.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
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Ibram Xolani Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers; August 13, 1982) is an American author, professor, anti-racism activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in the U.S. He is author of books including Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be an…
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Isis Naija Gaston (born January 1, 2000), known professionally as Ice Spice, is an American rapper and songwriter. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, she began her musical career during college in 2020, after meeting record producer RiotUSA. Ice…
1904–2009
Ida B. Kinney (née Ford; May 25, 1904 – January 1, 2009) was an African-American civil rights activist and teacher.
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Ida E. Jones (born 1970) is an American historian and author who is the University Archivist at Morgan State University, the first archivist in the university's history. Previously she worked as Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the Moorland-Spingarn…
1934–
Ida Elizabeth Lewis (born September 22, 1934) is a Black American journalist and teacher. She was editor-in-chief of the magazines Essence and The Crisis, and founder of Encore.
1862–1957
Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt (November 16, 1862 – December 19, 1957) was an advocate of racial and gender equality and co-founded one of the first YWCAs in Washington, D.C., for African-Americans in 1905. She was the daughter of Judge Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, the…
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Ida R. Cummings (March 17, 1867 – November 1958) was an American teacher and clubwoman, based in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an officer of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in the 1910s.
1873–1914
Ida Alcorn Revels Redmond (19 May or July 1873 – 21 or 23 May 1914) was an American teacher and women's organizer in Mississippi. She encouraged self-improvement efforts through civic, education and social services. Her father was Hiram Revels, the first…
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Ida Stephens Owens (September 13, 1939 – February 24, 2020) was an American biochemist known for her work with drug-detoxifying enzymes. She received her Ph.D from Duke University in 1967, making her one of the first two African Americans to receive a…
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Idabelle Yeiser (born c. 1900, died 24 September 1954) was an American woman poet, writer, and educator, who was part of the New Negro Movement in Philadelphia.
1938
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGHardcover school book by Emma E. Akin titled Ideals and Adventures. The book has a green cloth cover with a black graphic on the cover and black text. The graphic occupies the upper three quarters of the cover. It shows an open book with different figures…
1938
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition, first printing hardcopy of the Ideals and Adventures (Negro American Series) by Emma E. Akin. The front cover is a green and features a large illustration of an open book with figures emerging from between the pages. The figures include a…
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA descriptive summary of the Black Studies program at Morgan State College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, Maryland written by Professor Walter Fisher. The front cover has small image depictions in red, yellow, green, and white. The back of the…
1903–1998
Idella Jones Childs (June 21, 1903 – August 8, 1998) was an American educator, historian and civil rights activist. Childs worked as a teacher for 35 years in Perry County in Alabama. During the civil rights movement, her home was a meeting place for…
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