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James Irvin Gadsden (born March 12, 1948) is an American former diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Iceland. Gadsden graduated from Harvard University (1970, cum laude) with a B.A. in Economics, MA in East Asian Studies, from Stanford University…
1980–
James Ijames () (born 1980) is an American playwright originally from Bessemer City, North Carolina. His play Fat Ham, adapted from Hamlet, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a professor at Columbia University and former co-artistic director of the…
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James J. Hardy was an African-American member of the South Carolina legislature from 1870 to 1871. His son Walter S. E. Hardy became a doctor. He applied to the University of Tennessee in 1939. Dr. Walter Hardy Memorial Park and the Dr. Walter S. E. Hardy…
1918–1975
James J. Walker (May 13, 1918 – October 1, 1975) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, from 1957 to 1964 and 1967 to 1971. Born in Macon, Georgia, Walker…
1944–2020
James S. Jackson (1944 – September 1, 2020) was an American social psychologist and the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Jackson was also a member of the National Science Board and a past president…
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James Johnson (born July 20, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and former head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team. He currently serves as a member of the Virginia Tech Hokies football staff as their Director of High School…
1943–
James Allen "Jim" Johnson (23 March 1943 - 2009 or earlier) was an American former track and field sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter dash. His greatest achievement came while representing his country at the 1963 Pan American Games, where he won…
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James McCoy Jones is an African-American social psychologist and cultural diversity scholar. He is Trustees' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Black American Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of…
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James Fitzgerald Jones (born February 20, 1964) is an American men's college basketball coach who is the head coach at Yale University. Born on Long Island, Jones played college basketball at SUNY Albany and worked as a sales executive for NCR Corporation…
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James Leonard Farmer Sr. (June 12, 1886 – May 14, 1961), known as J. Leonard Farmer, was an American author, theologian, and educator. He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and an academic in early religious history as well as theology.
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James L. Hicks (May 9, 1915 – January 16, 1986) was an American journalist active from 1935 to 1977. He wrote a column for the Baltimore Afro-American advocating opportunities in the U.S. Army. Hicks covered school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas and…
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James L. Jamison (died July 2, 1873) was a farmer, teacher, businessman, and state legislator in South Carolina. Jamison sat in the South Carolina Senate representing Orangeburg during the Reconstruction era. He was a Republican elected to terms in 1870…
1845–1885
James L. Smallwood (1845–1885) was an American educator and barber who was born in Mulberry Ward, Philadelphia. Smallwood was both the first African-American juror in York County, Pennsylvania, and the founder of the James Smallwood Schoolhouse in York,…
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James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the…
1902–1993
James Lesesne Wells (November 2, 1902 – January 20, 1993) was an African American graphic artist, print-maker, and painter associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He was an influential art professor at Howard University from 1929 to 1968 and is considered…
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James David Lofton (born July 5, 1956) is an American former professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers (1978–1986), Los Angeles Raiders (1987–1988), Buffalo Bills…
1901–1987
James E. Lytle Jr. (February 22, 1901 – July 17, 1987) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and golf coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta in 1927, Shaw University from…
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James Miller Baxter (c. 1845 – December 28, 1909) was the first African-American principal of a school in Newark, New Jersey, taking the position at age 19 in 1864 and serving as Newark's only African – American principal until 1909, shortly before his…
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James Munroe Canty (December 23, 1865 – February 16, 1964) was an American educator, school administrator, and businessperson. Canty was an acting principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute (present-day West Virginia State University) in 1898 and is…
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James M. Dickson, sometimes written as James M. Dixon, was a minister, farm owner, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was enslaved from birth. He represented Yazoo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873. He also served as…
1927–2008
James M. Jay (1927–2008) was an American microbiologist who taught at Southern University and Wayne State University with a Ph.D. in bacteriology and biochemistry.
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James Mux Priest (July 8, 1819 – May 16, 1883) was the sixth vice president of Liberia from 1864 to 1868 under President Daniel Bashiel Warner. He was born enslaved in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Slaveowner Jane Anderson Meaux educated and freed Priest and…
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James A. "Charlie" Mahoney (1957/1958 – April 27, 2020) was an American pulmonologist and internist. He was the head of the intensive care unit and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
1944–2009
James A. Martin Sr. (August 22, 1944 – January 14, 2009) was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He was served as the head football coach at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama for nine seasons, from 1984 to…
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