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December 9, 1919
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a pamphlet produced by the Poro Company explaining manicuring and facial massage. The cover of the pamphlet features the title on the cover "MANICURING/ &/ FACIAL MASSAGE." In the lower third of the cover in the center is the company and location…
1960
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG16mm black and white film (a) about marches, protests, and events during the Civil Rights Movement around 1960. The film opens in Montgomery, Alabama with accompanying music and voiceover narration. The footage documents demonstrators marching to the steps…
1937
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIntercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletics of America medal for the Special Commemorative Sprint Series event awarded to Eulace Peacock in 1937. The medal is rectangular, gold colored, and has a bezel attached to two (2) jump rings. The obverse of…
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Intisar A. Rabb is an American legal scholar and professor at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Born in Baltimore, Rabb developed an early interest in academia and completed studies at Georgetown and Princeton before…
1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA single page document adhered to page 23 of Frances Albirer's scrapbook (2010.60.1) introducing a section of photographs in the scrapbook. The page has a heading with "CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION PROJECT" typewritten in black ink across the top center of the…
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis textbook is the 6th edition of Afro-American Studies: A Peoples College Primer published in August 1986. The textbook has a red cover with black symbols and text. The text is below a box that is filled with different symbols. The text reads:…
1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe booklet (2014.213.1.1) is bound with a thin string of leather threaded through three holes located at the center-left edge of the booklet. The images and text visible on the cover are created with embossed sections of the paper. An image dominates the…
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn invitation for "Celebration of Life, Survival and Love: A Human Experience" held by the Director of Black Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Sunday January 27, 1974. The front of the invitation features three intersecting…
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Ione Elveda Wood Gibbs (c. 1871 – June 1923) was an American educator, journalist, and clubwoman. She served as vice-president of the National Association of Colored Women from 1912 to 1914.
1872–1953
Ionia Rollin Whipper (September 8, 1872 – April 13, 1953) was an American obstetrician and public health outreach worker. A 1903 graduate of Howard University School of Medicine, she was one of the few African-American women physicians of her generation.…
1953–
Iqua Colson, born Kristine Browne (12 July 1953) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is an American vocalist, composer, lyricist, arts administrator, and educator.
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Ira Bowman (born 1973) is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He played in the National Basketball Association and later coached in college basketball.
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Ira David Pinson (October 3, 1892 – July 21, 1939) was an American academic who became a professor of languages and philosophy, completing a Bachelor of Divinity at Yale University in 1920. From 1915 he was a member of the teaching faculty of Morris…
1901–1968
Ira De Augustine Reid (July 2, 1901 – August 15, 1968) was an American sociologist and educator, who wrote extensively on the lives of Black immigrants and communities in the United States. He was also influential in the field of educational sociology. He…
1967–
Ira Lamonte Smith (born August 4, 1967) is an American former college and minor league baseball player from Chestertown, Maryland. While playing collegiately at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Smith was the first player to win two NCAA batting titles…
1907–1999
Irene Britton Smith (December 22, 1907 – February 15, 1999) was an American classical composer and educator.
1908–1999
Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson (née Dobbs, 1908–1999) was an American professor of French at Spelman College and a civil rights activist who helped desegregate Atlanta's public libraries, where African American patrons were only allowed to read books in the…
1927–1984
Irene V. Clark (1927-1984) was an American painter. She was born in 1927 in Washington, D.C. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago she also studied screen printing with William McBride and John F. Miller.
Biography
Iris Stevenson-McCullough is an American academic, public school teacher, and choir director. The 1993 American musical comedy film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is loosely based on her time as a choir director at Crenshaw High School.
1911–1965
Irma George Dixon (1911 – June 30, 1965) was a Maryland educator and politician. In 1958 she and Verda Freeman Welcome became the first two African American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly.
Biography
Irma Hunter Brown is an American educator, college president, and former politician in Arkansas. She was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1998 and a member of the Arkansas Senate from 2003 to 2008. She was the first African…
Biography
Irma P. McClaurin is an American poet, anthropologist, academic, and leadership consultant. She was the first female president of Shaw University, and is the author or editor of several books on topics including the culture of Belize, black feminism,…
1993-10-18
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Iroko trees on the way from Mayflower School to Ikenne (on East side of Ogun). Looking North from Main Road near Abileu Sarine. Impending storm. West of river. Thursday 2:30 PM".
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "National Museum, Accra; Iron Working [exhibit]. The date on the slide is MAR 86.".
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