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1898–1974
Joseph Armstrong "J. A." De Laine (July 2, 1898 – August 3, 1974) was an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Allen University in 1931, working as a laborer and…
1905–1977
Joseph James Dennis (11 April 1905 in Gainesville, Florida – April 1977) was an African-American mathematician. He served as the chairman of the Clark College mathematics department from 1930 to 1974. Dennis gained his B.A. from Clark College in 1929, and…
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Joseph Endom Jones (October 15, 1852–October 14, 1922) was an American Baptist minister and professor at the Richmond Theological Seminary and Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia from 1876 to 1922. He was a major leader in the Baptist Church…
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Joseph H. Bradford (born c. 1854) was a teacher, lawyer, and state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1885. He was a Republican. His photograph is among those of his fellow 1885 Arkansas House members. He…
1905–1997
Joseph Henry Reason (March 23, 1905 – July 26, 1997) was an American librarian. He was director of the Howard University library system for 25 years. He was the first African-American to serve as president of the Association of College and Research…
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Joseph O. Jewell is a professor of Black Studies and Department Head at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Prior to his time at UIC, Jewell was an associate professor of African American Studies and Department Chair at Loyola Marymount University.…
1940–2017
Joseph Andrew Johnson III (1940 – 2017) was an American physicist and professor at the Florida A&M University. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists. He was awarded the 1995 American Physical Society Edward Bouchet award and…
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Joseph L. Graves Jr. (born 1955) is an American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. He is a professor of biological science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and a former associate dean for research at the Joint School for…
1942–2021
Joseph Louis Searles III (January 2, 1942 – July 26, 2021) was the first black floor member and floor broker in the New York Stock Exchange. Searles was born in Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated and played football at Kansas State University, then…
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Joseph Alfred McNeil (March 25, 1942 – September 4, 2025) was a major general in the United States Air Force who was best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four – a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a…
1936–
Joseph Monroe (born May 18, 1936) is an American computer scientist and the second African American in history to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. He served on the faculties of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fayetteville State University, and North Carolina…
1938–2014
Joseph Monroe Segars (November 6, 1938 Hartsville, South Carolina – July 20, 2014 Lakewood Ranch, Florida) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cape Verde from 1992 until 1996. He also…
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Joseph Nathaniel Crooms, also known as J. N. Crooms, (June 17, 1880 - March 14, 1957) was an African American principal and educator in Florida. He established two schools for African American students in Seminole County, the first being Hopper Academy and…
1890–1975
Joseph Russell Fugett (June 17, 1890 – July 5, 1975) was an American activist and educator. In 1920, he became the principal of the all-black Gay Street School in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Joseph Roosevelt Houchins (August 9, 1900 – January 5, 1990) was an American labor economist, attorney, and academic. He was a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, a leader of the Division of Negro Affairs in the United States Department of…
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Joseph Robert Love, known as Dr. Robert Love (2 October 1839 – 21 November 1914), was a 19th-century Bahamian-born medical doctor, clergyman, teacher, journalist, politician and pan-Africanist. He lived, studied, and worked successively in the Bahamas, the…
1871–1944
Joseph Samuel Clark (June 7, 1871 – November 3, 1944) was an academic administrator and college president who spent most of his career in Louisiana. He was the head of Baton Rouge College and president of Southern University and A&M College, both…
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. (February 2, 1861 – March 14, 1949) was an American poet, writer, playwright, and community leader raised in Louisville, Kentucky (but born in Nelson County, Kentucky). Cotter was one of the earliest African-American playwrights to…
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Joseph Sissens (born 26 December 1998) is a British ballet dancer who is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. He graduated from the Royal Ballet School in 2016. He was promoted to principal dancer in 2024.
1937–1988
Joseph Allen Towles (August 17, 1937 – December 19, 1988) was an African American anthropologist and author of the books Nkumbi Initiation and Asa: Myth of Origin of the Blood Brotherhood Among the Mbo of the Ituri Forest. Towles was born in Senora,…
1850–1913
Joseph W. Morris (August 26, 1850 - September 13, 1913) was an African-American lawyer and professor in South Carolina. He was principal of Allen University in the 1880s and 1890s.
1932–2017
Joseph L. White Jr. (December 19, 1932 – November 21, 2017) was an American scholar who served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. He is widely regarded as the "godfather" of the field of Black psychology.
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Joseph Willis was a 19th-century free African-American minister who has been described by some historians as the "father of the Baptist religion in Louisiana".
1894–1982
Josephine (Josie) Bond Hebron (November 22, 1894 – February 1982) was a traveler, businesswoman, and writer/publisher who was African-American. She was the cousin of composer and pianist Carl Rossini Diton and sister of composer and pianist John Harvey…
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