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James M. Ellis was an African-American lawyer and politician who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates during the Reconstruction era. He lived in Oak Hill. T. L. Sweeney and J. H. Love were reported to be the only other "Colored" attorneys in…
1935–2004
James Major B. Gates (July 17, 1935 – March 20, 2004) was the last survivor of the segregated 95th Engineers Combat Battalion, which was used for human fallout exposure testing. They were stationed in closest vicinity during atomic blasting at Camp Desert…
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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 Merilus Simms (December 27, 1823 – July 9, 1912) was a minister, newspaper publisher, author, and elected representative in the Georgia Assembly during the Reconstruction era. He was African American. Simms was born a slave in Savannah, Georgia.
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James Madison Bell (April 3, 1826 – March 4, 1902) was an African-American poet, orator, and political activist who was involved in the abolitionist movement against slavery. He was the first native African-American poet in Ohio and was called the "Bard of…
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James Mars (March 3, 1790 – May 27, 1880) was an American slave narrative author and political activist. Born into slavery in Canaan, Connecticut, he gained his freedom in 1811. In 1864, he published his memoir A Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold…
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James Matthew Townsend (August 18, 1841 – June 17, 1913) was an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister and a state legislator from Indiana. A Republican, he served in the legislature in the 1884 session. From 1889 to 1891 he was recorder at the General…
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James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of…
August 18, 1963; printed ca. 1990
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of university graduates wearing caps and gowns walking outside in a procession. James Meredith is the second man in line. Back C is stamped [Charles Moore Estate / Lifetime Print], back BC has a sticker on which is handwritten…
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James Milton Turner (c. 1840 – November 1, 1915) was an American political leader, activist, educator, and diplomat during the Reconstruction era. Appointed consul general to Liberia in 1871, he was the first African-American to serve in the U.S.…
1822–1871
James Monroe Whitfield (c. April 10, 1822 – April 23, 1871) was an African-American poet, abolitionist, and political activist. He was a notable writer and activist in abolitionism and African emigration during the antebellum era. He published the book…
1946–2022
James Forman (January 3, 1946 – January 9, 2022), known professionally as Mtume or James Mtume, was an American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record producer, activist, and radio personality. He came to prominence as a jazz musician, working with…
1891–1970
Rev. James Myles Hinton Sr. (1891–1970) was an American minister, businessperson, and civil rights leader.
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The Reverend James Newton Gloucester was an African-American clergyman and businessman who was a supporter of abolitionist John Brown. Like his father, Gloucester was a Black Presbyterian pastor. In 1849 he founded Siloam Presbyterian Church. He and his…
1942–2008
James Edward Orange (October 29, 1942 – February 16, 2008), also known as "Shackdaddy", was a leading civil rights activist in the Civil Rights Movement in America. He was assistant to Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. Orange joined the…
May 25, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.14.1a, 2011.174.14.1b, 2011.174.14.1c, 2011.174.14.1d, 2011.174.14.1e, 2011.174.14.1f, 2011.174.14.1g, and 2011.174.14.1h. James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the…
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James P. Mays was Commissioner of Elections in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, and in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era in 1868. He was also appointed Coroner in 1873.
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James Preston Poindexter (October 26, 1819 – February 7, 1907) was an abolitionist, civil rights activist, politician, and Baptist minister from Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and moved to Ohio as a young man. In Ohio he was a part of…
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James R. Ford (December 1, 1925 – October 11, 2017) was an American educator, politician, and businessman. In 1972, Ford became the first African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and the first Black mayor of a U.S. state capital city. He later…
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James Richard Jones (commonly known as "Dick Jones") was an African American who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly during the Reconstruction era, as well as the federal postmaster for Boydton (the Mecklenburg county seat). He was…
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James Newby (c. 1843 – after 1884) was an American Civil War veteran who served in the first regiment of volunteer African Americans in the United States and a 19th-century African-American missionary to present-day Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia.
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James Robert Lincoln Diggs (November 7, 1866 – April 14, 1923) was an American civil rights leader, college president, pastor, and college football coach.
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James Rucker is the co-founder of Color of Change, an online activist organization that aims to strengthen the political voice of African Americans in the United States. The organization was founded by Rucker and Van Jones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,…
1918–1985
James Rupert Lawson (June 5, 1918 – July 9, 1985) was an African-American activist who founded the United African Nationalist Movement, an anti-imperialist lobbying group based in Harlem, advocating freedom for Africans from rule by non-Africans in the…
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