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1843–1887
Israel Braddock Abbott (May 11, 1843 – May 6, 1887) was a politician from North Carolina who served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1872 during the Reconstruction era. He was African American.
1932–2012
Israel Benjamin Curtis (September 11, 1932 – February 16, 2012) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 2008.
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA documentary short with the title It’s the Same Old Game. It consists of a single reel of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound. The film features interviews with children about their neighborhood, interviews with community activists, and planners…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed, leather-bound, author's private printing edition of General Colin L. Powell's book It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, published by Easton Press. The hardcover book features dark blue leather, with a hubbed spine, sewn-in acid-neutral paper…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover first edition of General Colin L. Powell’s second autobiographical book, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership. The book features a glossy paper jacket over its green and black hardcover. There are no markings on the front and back covers,…
2012; printed 2014
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover Taiwanese edition of Winning Leadership: Powell's Life Experience, published in the United States as It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, written by General Colin L. Powell. The book features a glossy hardcover, with a color photograph of…
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Ivan Jules Bates (born September 1968) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the State's Attorney of Baltimore since 2023.
1963–
Ivan Berry (born November 1963) is a Canadian music industry executive producer, music publisher, A&R manager, music business educator and lecturer, global speaker, entrepreneur, pop culture influencer and socio-political cultural attaché. He co-founded…
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Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and "The…
1919–1994
Ivan Warner (February 18, 1919 – January 26, 1994) was an American lawyer and politician in New York.
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Ivory Achebe Toldson (born 1973) is an American academic and author. He is a professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University, national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro…
1947–2023
Ivy Joan Young (December 23, 1947 - April 24, 2023) was an African American lesbian journalist, activist, poet, and photographer who actively campaigned for improved LGBTQ and civil and political rights in the United States and beyond.
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Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970) is the former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 2014 through 2017, and the former president of Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi from 2017 through 2023. The former politician and urban planner was a nonpartisan…
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Izabella Lourença de Amorim Romualdo, better known as Iza Lourença (born 1 September 1993 in Belo Horizonte), is a Brazilian politician. She holds a degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and is a city councillor…
1916–2015
Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a Black American woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the…
Biography
J'Ada Mergeaux Finch-Sheen is a United States Virgin Islands lawyer and businessperson who served as the territory's first female Attorney General and acting Governor.
1924–2003
J. B. "Jet" Banks (March 13, 1924 – October 12, 2003) was an American Democratic politician who served in the Missouri Senate and in the Missouri legislature for three decades. Banks, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become state senate majority leader…
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Joshua C. Legree was a political organizer and politician in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. He was the first mayor of Burroughs, Georgia.
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James Dallas Bowser (February 15, 1846-January 1923) was a journalist and educator in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the principal of Lincoln School there from 1868-1879 and later the principal of Attucks School. He was a civil rights leader in the city and…
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Jesse Delano Ellis II, commonly known as J. Delano Ellis, (December 11, 1944 – September 19, 2020) was an American Protestant religious leader and progenitor of unity among African American Pentecostals with Trinitarian and nontrinitarian affinities…
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James Finley Wilson (August 28, 1881 – February 18, 1952) was a newspaperman, leader of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. held appointed public office, and was an influential community leader among African Americans. Emory…
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Jerome Gary Cooper (October 2, 1936 – April 27, 2024) was an officer of the United States Marine Corps who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower & Reserve Affairs) from 1989 to 1992, and as United States Ambassador to Jamaica from 1994…
Biography
J. Goldsteen Dupree (c. 1846 – 1873) was an assassinated Republican African-American member of the Texas House of Representatives. He testified against two fellow black legislators who were then unseated for having received ineligible votes.
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John Gray Lucas (March 11, 1864– October 27, 1944) was a lawyer and a state legislator in Arkansas during the early 20th century. He was appointed Assistant U.S. attorney in Cook County in 1934. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1864, he eventually moved to Pine…
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