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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Jacket for the FAMU Marching Band

1970-1979

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A Florida A&M University Marching Band jacket by SOL FRANK Uniforms, Inc. The green, orange, and off-white jacket, its colors representative of Florida’s agricultural industry, is constructed of one hundred percent wool, and features several University…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.94.5.2
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Education & Scholarship

Jackie Kay

1961–

Jacqueline Margaret Kay (born 9 November 1961) is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the…

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Music

Jackie Venson

1990–

Jackie Venson (born 5 February 1990) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Austin, Texas. She graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2011. She has released five studio albums, Joy (2019), Love Transcends (2021), Evolution of Joy (2023),…

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Education & Scholarship

Jackie Walker

1954–

Jacqueline Walker (born 10 April 1954) is a British and American political activist and writer. She has been a teacher and anti-racism trainer. She is the author of a family memoir, Pilgrim State, and the co-writer and performer of a one-woman show, The…

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Sports & Achievement

Jackie Walker (American football, born 1950)

1950–2002

Jackie Eugene Walker (April 14, 1950 – December 5, 2002) was an American football linebacker who played for the University of Tennessee from 1969 to 1971. A two-time All-American, he was the first black captain of a Southeastern Conference squad. Walker…

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Sports

Jackson Rowe

1997–

Jackson Rowe (born July 1, 1997) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Ligat HaAl. He played college basketball for the Cal State Fullerton Titans.

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Education & Scholarship

Jacob C. White Jr.

1837–1902

Jacob C. White Jr. (1837 – November 11, 1902) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. Born to a successful and influential businessman, White received the finest education afforded to African Americans of the time and became…

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Education & Scholarship

Jacob Carruthers

1930–2004

Jacob Hudson Carruthers, Jr. (February 15, 1930, in Dallas, Texas—January 4, 2004, in Chicago) was an African-centered historian and educator.

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Sports

Jacob Heyward

1995–

Jacob August Heyward (born August 1, 1995) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and current coach. He played college baseball at the University of Miami.

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Education

Jacob J. Durham

1849–1920

Jacob Javan Durham (April 14, 1849 – December 11, 1920) was an American minister, educator, debater and orator, and the founder of a college. He was a Baptist minister in South Carolina, and the founder of Morris College in 1908. He was a member of the…

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Education & Scholarship

Jacob L. Reddix

1897–1973

Jacob Lorenzo Reddix (1897–1973) was an American educator, academic administrator, and memoirist. He was President of Mississippi Negro Training School (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi, from 1940 until 1967. He was nicknamed "the…

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Politics & Public Life

Jacob Montgomery

Born 1854

Jacob H. Montgomery (January 15, 1854 – ?) was an American politician. Jacob Montgomery was born on January 15, 1854 in Warrenton, North Carolina. He was educated at Shaw University in Raleigh and worked as a school teacher.

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Sports & Achievement

Jacory Patterson

2000–

Jacory Patterson (born February 2, 2000) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the sprints. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, he won a gold medal at the 2016 USATF Junior Olympics in the long jump before focusing on sprinting events.…

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Biography & Culture

Jacqueline A. Berrien

1961–2015

Jacqueline Ann Berrien (November 28, 1961 – November 9, 2015), often known as Jackie Berrien, was an American civil rights attorney and government official. From 2009 to 2014, Berrien served as chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…

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Science & Inventions

Jacqueline Akinpelu

1953–

Jacqueline M. Akinpelu (born 1953, née McKinney) is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who worked at Bell Labs on network performance under overloaded conditions, and later, as a research manager at the Applied Physics Laboratory…

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Literature

Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier

1932–2016

Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier (February 7, 1932 - August 3, 2016) was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Ontario, Canada.

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Education & Scholarship

Jacqueline Bobo

Biography

Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bobo has been recognized as an "internationally renowned writer" and black feminist scholar.

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Scholarship

Jacqueline Couti

Biography

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies and chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Rice University. There, she formerly served as Associate Director of the Center for the Study…

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Science & Inventions

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

Biography

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. She is a retired professor of the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).

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Education & Scholarship

Jacqueline Stewart

1970–

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is an American cinema studies scholar and television host for Turner Classic Movies. A professor at the University of Chicago, she also served as the inaugural artistic director, and then president for the Academy Museum of Motion…

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Education & Scholarship

Jacquelyn Grant

1948–

Jacquelyn Grant (born 1948) is an American theologian, a Methodist minister. Alongside Katie Cannon, Delores S. Williams, and Kelly Brown Douglas, Grant is considered one of the four founders of womanist theology. Womanist theology addresses theology from…

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Literature

Jacquelyn Serwer

Biography

Jacquelyn Days Serwer is an American art historian and curator. A specialist in American art and African American art, she is the Chief Curator of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Medicine & Health

Jacquelyn Taylor

Biography

Jacquelyn Taylor (née Long) is the Helen F. Petit Endowed Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSON), where she is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research on People of Color (CRPC). Dr. Taylor is also the…

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Sports

Jade Iginla

2004–

Jade Grace Iginla (born October 19, 2004) is a Canadian Professional ice hockey player who is a right wing for PWHL Hamilton of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). Previously, she played for Brown University of the National Collegiate Athletic…

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