Explore educators, scholars, schools and the ideas that shaped communities.
9,959 matching cards · 24 cards per page
1945–
Joe William Denning (born 1945) is an American mayor, City commissioner, and police officer who served as the first African-American mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Denning is a graduate of the Kentucky State Police…
Loading image…Dates not recorded
Joseph E. Suggs was an American college football coach and educator. He was served as the head football coach at Tennessee A&I State Normal School for Negroes—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee, for one season, in 1924. He had…
1917–1977
Joseph G. Echols (March 23, 1917 – March 28, 1977) was an American football coach, college athletics administrator, and Negro league baseball player.
1933–2018
Joe Ellis Brown (May 24, 1933 – January 7, 2018) was an American schoolteacher and politician. Born in Anderson County, South Carolina, to Prue Ellis and Elouise Grant-Brown, he played football at Allen University and obtained a master's degree at South…
Loading image…1874–1910
Joe Gans (born Joseph Saifus Butts; November 25, 1874 – August 10, 1910) was an American professional boxer. Gans was rated the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer. Known as the "Old Master,"…
1927–2012
Joseph Wiley Gilliam Sr. (March 27, 1927 – November 14, 2012) was an American football coach. He played football and basketball in college.
Loading image…1946–
Charles Edward Greene (born September 24, 1946), better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1981. A…
Loading image…1977–
Joseph Fitzgerald Hamilton (born March 13, 1977) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), NFL Europe and Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech…
Loading image…1965–
Joseph Fernal Jones (born November 9, 1965) is the head coach of Boston University's men's basketball team. He previously served as the head coach at Columbia University and has worked as an assistant coach at Hofstra University, Villanova University, and…
1909–1965
Joseph Nathaniel Kendall (October 2, 1909 – November 25, 1965) was an American college football player who was a quarterback for the Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons (now Kentucky State University) in the mid-1930s. Nicknamed "Tarzan"…
2000–
Joe Louis Reed Sr. (born 1938) is an American politician, activist and educator. He is the current Vice-Chair of Minority Affairs of the Alabama Democratic Party and, since 1979, chair of the Alabama Democratic Conference (ADC). He also served as president…
1938–2020
Joe Louis Clark (May 8, 1938 – December 29, 2020) was an American educator and administrator, who was best known for his tenure as principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. He gained national attention for his…
Dates not recorded
Joe Manhertz is an American sports professional who formerly served as the director of athletics for St. Bonaventure University. He previously served as associate athletic director at Duke University from 2010 to 2021, and in various administrative roles…
Loading image…1954–2014
Joseph Wayne Pittman (January 1, 1953 – June 13, 2014) was a backup infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants in parts of three seasons spanning 1981–1984. Listed at 6 feet 1…
1902–1986
Joseph Talton Strong (August 4, 1902 – November 12, 1986) was an American Negro league baseball pitcher, playing for several teams. Most of his seasons, he played for the Baltimore Black Sox, and the Homestead Grays. Strong attended college at Wilberforce…
1950–
Joe Taylor (born May 7, 1950) is an American college athletics administrator and former football coach. He is the athletic director at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, a position he has held since 2013. Taylor served as the head football…
1913–1994
Joseph Lewman Ware (June 5, 1913 – January 10, 1994), nicknamed "Showboat", was an American professional baseball outfielder, second baseman and first baseman in the Negro leagues in the 1930s. A native of Greenwood, South Carolina, Ware attended…
Loading image…1978–
Joe Whitt Jr. (born July 19, 1978) is an American professional football coach who is the assistant head coach and secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Whitt played college football as a wide receiver for the…
1883–1966
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and professional historian who focused on the history of Africa as well as the African diaspora. After settling in the United States in 1906, he lived in…
Loading image…1975–
Joel Christian Gill (born 15 January 1975) is an American cartoonist, educator, and author of a number of graphic novels from Fulcrum Publishing: Strange Fruit Vol I : Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth…
Biography
Joel Kwamena Abraham is an American ecologist and professor at California State University Fullerton. His work focuses on how plant traits and competition shape invasion success by non-native plant species in California.
Dates not recorded
Joel Taylor (born c. 1982) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for the Mercer University, a position he has held since 2025. He also coached for South Carolina State, Lenoir–Rhyne, The Citadel, and Mercer. He played college…
Dates not recorded
Joel W. Lewis was a prominent African-American businessman and abolitionist. He was among the best known and respected reformers in antebellum Boston. He was the son of Job Lewis (?–1797), a former slave who served in the Continental Army. He was a brother…
1929–2012
Joella Hardeman Gipson-Simpson (January 8, 1929 – January 31, 2012) was an American musician, mathematician, and educator who became the first African American student at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles.
Biographies, museum objects and archive records are distinct card types. Every card links to its historical source.
