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Angelique Fawcette is an American producer, CEO, actress, and activist known primarily for her work on Unbelievable!!!!!.
1905–2004
Angie Lena Turner King (December 9, 1905 – February 28, 2004) was an American chemist, mathematician, and educator. King was an instructor of chemistry and mathematics at West Virginia State High School, and a professor of chemistry and mathematics at West…
2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA white baseball cap worn by Wilbert Rideau while incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The cap has text screen printed on the front in red, blue, and black reading "ANGOLA / 2005 / LONGTERMER / 2005" around a central image of a man…
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Anielle Francisco da Silva (born 3 May 1985) is a Brazilian politician from the Workers' Party who has been Minister of Racial Equality in the second cabinet of Lula da Silva since 1 January 2023.
2015
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white archival process photograph of Destini Riley and her mother, Lattina Riley, animating frames for the short film I, Destini. Looking at the camera, Destini holds a pen/stylus to a screen with an image of her in her proper right hand. Her…
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Anissa Monique Jones is an American politician who was elected member of the Georgia House of Representatives for the 143rd district in 2024. Jones graduated from Fort Valley State University, Life University and Wesleyan College. She is the first African…
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Anita Bonds (born 1945) is an American Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia. She served as the Chair of the District of Columbia Democratic Party from 2006 to 2018. She worked as an…
Biography
Anita Brown was the founder of Black Geeks Online, an Internet community in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Brown lived in Washington, DC, for most of her life, and she died on September 8, 2006.
1960–
Anita Sue Earls (born Anita Sue Brooks on February 20, 1960) is an American civil rights attorney who has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court since 2019. She previously served as the executive director of the Southern…
Biography
Anita Woodley is an American journalist, actress, playwright, literary teaching artist, mixed-media artist, poet, producer, and free jazz vocalist. She grew up in Oakland, California, in housing provided by the Oakland Housing Authority. She attended…
1951–
Ann Holmes Redding (born October 22, 1951) is a former Episcopal priest, who was defrocked in April 2009 for having become a Muslim in March 2006. She grew up in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Her father, Louis L. Redding, was a prominent civil rights lawyer in…
July 25, 2016
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of 2016.129.9.1a and 2016.129.9.2a: two versions (unedited, and edited) of a single digital video recording. Ann Jimerson was interviewed as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. Ms. Jimerson donated shards of glass…
1902–2009
Ann Louise Nixon Cooper (January 9, 1902 - December 21, 2009) was an American centenarian best known for being invoked in United States President-elect Barack Obama's November 2008 election speech as someone who had witnessed "the struggle and the…
Biography
Ann Ogbomo is an English actress. She is known for her multiple roles in DC Comics live-action adaptations, such as Philippus in the DC Extended Universe films Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Jayna-Zod…
1921–2015
Ann Shaw (November 21, 1921 – May 5, 2015) was an American social worker and civic leader based in Los Angeles for five decades. Shaw was a leader of the YWCA of the Greater Los Angeles for two terms and the first African American to head the organization…
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman (July 5, 1899 – January 17, 1990) was an African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer. Under President Harry Truman, Hedgeman served as executive director of the National Council for a Permanent Fair…
1861–1945
Anna Bustill Smith (1862 – August 1945) was a cousin of Paul Robeson and member of Philadelphia's prominent Bustill family. A suffragist, who was the first known African-American genealogist in the United States, she also achieved recognition as an…
1857–1955
Anna Evans Murray (1857–1955) was an American civic leader, educator, and early advocate of free kindergarten and the training of kindergarten teachers. In 1898 she successfully lobbied Congress for the first federal funds for kindergarten classes, and…
Biography
Anna Faith Johnson Jones is an American community activist who was the first Black woman to lead a major community foundation.
1855–1932
Anna H. Jones (September 2, 1855 – March 7, 1932) was a Canadian-born American clubwoman, suffragist, and educator based in later life in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Anna Johnson Julian, born Anna Roselle Johnson (November 24, 1903 – July 3, 1994) was the first African-American woman awarded a PhD in sociology by the University of Pennsylvania (1937), a civic activist, and fourth national president of Delta Sigma…
1917–2008
Anna R. Langford (née Riggs; October 27, 1917 – September 17, 2008) was an American politician, civil rights activist, and lawyer who served on the Chicago City Council in Chicago, Illinois. Langford became the first African American woman elected to the…
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Anna Louise James (January 19, 1886 - 1977) was the first female African American pharmacist in Connecticut. She operated the James Pharmacy in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, for fifty years.
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Anna Murray Douglass (March 8, 1813 – August 4, 1882) was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death.
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