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1865–1927
Jack Broomfield (1865–1927) was an American business leader and noted criminal in Omaha, Nebraska in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was an acknowledged political, social and economic leader in the city's African-American community.
1939–2017
Jack Felder (June 14, 1939 – December 3, 2017) was an American biochemist, research, lecturer, activist, educator, historian, and a germ warfare specialist. He was a self published author. He was a United States of America germ warfare specialist from 1962…
1947–2015
John Marshall Ford (May 18, 1947 – March 21, 2015) was an American Democratic politician who served as the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, from January 2002 to January 2006. Ford was Toledo's first African-American mayor.
July 18, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.34.1a, 2011.174.34.1b, 2011.174.34.1c, 2011.174.34.1d, 2011.174.34.1e, 2011.174.34.1f, 2011.174.34.1g, 2011.174.34.1h, and 2011.174.34.1i. Jack Greenberg, J.D. remembers attending Columbia…
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Jack O'Dell (born Hunter Pitts O'Dell, August 11, 1923 – October 31, 2019) was an African-American activist and writer, best known for his role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II, he was an organizer for the National…
1925–2002
John Edgar "Jack" White (July 10, 1925 - September 10, 2002) was a Canadian labour union activist. He was the first elected black representative of the Ironworkers, and one of the first Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) national staff…
Dates not recorded
Jack York (fl. 1800) was a Canadian slave in the Western District who was alleged to have raped a white woman named Ruth Tufflemier after breaking into her cabin. York was arrested in August 1800. He was then tried for burglary, not rape; the trial took…
1990s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) jacket and patch. The UNIA military jacket (2013.68.150.1) is black with red and green accents. The collar at the top has metal clasps at the split. The buttons are missing down the middle. The two pockets…
1939; modified 1993
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn orange tailored silk shantung top decorated with beads and sequins worn by Marian Anderson at her Lincoln Memorial Concert in 1939. The jacket's silk material is iridescent with yellow undertones. Down the front of the jacket are 10 covered buttons. The…
1937–2008
Robert Lewis "Jackey" Beavers (June 19, 1937 – October 28, 2008) was an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, songwriter, pastor and community activist. He recorded with Johnny Bristol as the duo Johnny and Jackey, and co-wrote "Someday We'll Be…
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Jacqueline "Jackie" T. Addison (born September 14, 1962) is an American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 45 in Baltimore City.
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Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey (born February 27, 1957) is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2020. Lacey was the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as LA District…
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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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…
Biography
Jacob E. Freeman (c. 1841–1900) was a state legislator in Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives in the Fourteenth Texas Legislature and Sixteenth Texas Legislature.
Dates not recorded
Jacob Martin was a state legislator in Alabama. He represented Dallas County, Alabama during the Reconstruction era. His post office was at Martin's Station. He signed, with other Republican members of the Alabama legislature, an 1875 memorial of alleged…
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.
1863–1935
Jacob Moorer (April 1863 – February 27, 1935) was a South Carolina African-American lawyer and civil rights activist. He frequently fought cases in opposition to the elector provisions of the 1895 South Carolina Constitution, which he viewed as…
May 2009
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPhotograph featuring President Barack Obama bent over allowing a child to touch his head. The child, Jacob Philadelphia is in the center of the image standing in front of the Presidential desk in the Oval Office. Obama stands slightly to the child's PL.…
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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)…
1944–
Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson (née Davis, later Brown; born March 7, 1944) is an American author and peace activist. She wrote Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray, a compilation of letters she had sent to her son Jesse Jackson Jr. while he was…
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Jacqueline Moraes da Silva (born 16 August 1975) is a Brazilian micro-entrepreneur and politician, affiliated with the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). She became the first Black person and first woman to be elected as the vice-governor of the state of…
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Jacqueline Amanda Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and…
1950–
Jacquelyn Harrison Barrett (born November 4, 1950) served three terms as sheriff of Fulton County, Georgia, making her the first African-American woman to ever receive the title in the United States. After a "reverse discrimination" lawsuit was filed…
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