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Joseph Scott Galloway (born November 20, 1971) is an American former professional football player who is an analyst with ESPN. He was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Galloway was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the eighth…
Biography
Johari Abdul-Malik Ibn Winslow Seale is a convert to Islam, and was previously the Director of Outreach for the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Northern Virginia from June 2002 until June 2017. He is also the former Chair of the Coordinating Council of…
1871–1965
John Alvin Bacoats (October 10, 1891 - September 25, 1965) was the 9th president of Benedict College.
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John Anthony Bell (born 1929) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator, and later a civil rights officer in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, with broad authority over several states.
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John Andrew Burroughs Jr. (July 31, 1936 – September 11, 2014) was the United States Ambassador to Malawi from 1981 to 1984 and the United States Ambassador to Uganda from 1988 to 1991. He was a lineman for the University of Iowa football team before…
1914–2003
John Andrew Kenney Jr. (October 8, 1914 – November 29, 2003) was an American dermatologist who taught at Howard University. He specialized in the study of skin disorders affecting racial minorities.
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John Anderson Lankford (1874–1946) was an African American architect, engineer and educator. Based in Washington, D.C., he designed churches and institutional buildings and supported professional opportunities for Black architects and builders.
1947–
John a. powell (born May 27, 1947) is an American law professor. He leads the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute (formerly known as Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and…
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John Andrew Ross (December 15, 1940 – June 12, 2006) was an African American jazz musician, composer, musical director, and choral conductor. Ross was born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts and remained in the Boston, Massachusetts area for his whole…
1894–1978
John Andrew Shelburne (September 26, 1894 – January 29, 1978) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Dartmouth College, earning three letters from 1911 to 1913. Shelburne played professionally with the Hammond Pros of the…
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John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West.
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John Allen is an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015, compiling a record of 5–37 in five seasons. Allen was also the head coach of the Berlin Thunder of…
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John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi , OBE (; born 26 November 1970) is an English former professional basketball player, a psychologist, and a consultant. He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores and Penn State Nittany Lions, and professional…
August 15, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.100.1a, 2011.174.100.1b, 2011.174.100.1c, 2011.174.100.1d, 2011.174.100.1e, 2011.174.100.1f, 2011.174.100.1g, 2011.174.100.1h, 2011.174.100.1i, and 2011.174.100.1j. Jean and John Rosenberg, J. D.…
1921–1974
John Anderson (January 31, 1921 – August 18, 1974) was an American jazz trumpeter. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Westlake College of Music. He did a good deal of work in West Coast jazz with Stan…
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John Andrew Bowler (March 1, 1862 – October 7, 1935) was an American educator and Baptist minister. He was the first minister of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia and was one of the organizers for the first school for African Americans in…
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John Angelo Lester (1858 – 1934) was an American educator, physician and administrator in Nashville, Tennessee between 1895 and 1934. He was a professor of physiology at Meharry Medical College and was named Professor Emeritus in 1930. Lester served as an…
1931–
John Arthur Stokes (born 31 December 1931) is an American educator who was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. Born in Kingsville, Virginia, Stokes grew up in the Jim Crow South and attended Robert Russa Moton High School, a segregated school…
1923–1972
John Arthur Yeates (November 2, 1923 – July 12, 1972) was an American painter, active in Wisconsin and California. A student of Milwaukee artist Karl Priebe, Yeates adopted the Magic Realist style of his teacher, which he often applied to depictions of…
1922–2011
John T. Banks Sr. (August 11, 1922 – December 6, 2011) was an American professional baseball player who pitched and played first base in the Negro leagues in the 1940s and 1950s. Banks began playing semi-professional baseball while still attending Camden…
1864–
John Baptist LaFargue (June 1864 – after 1937) was an American educator, school founder, principal, newspaper publisher, and editor in Louisiana.
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John L. Bartlett (born 1948/1949) is a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 95th District since 2007. In 2015, at age 66, Barrlett earned a bachelor's degree from Martin University.
1938–2015
John H. Bates (December 13, 1938 – December 16, 2015) was an American college basketball coach, known for his time at Coppin State University, where he coached the team to a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championship and led the…
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John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the…
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