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BIOGRAPHY
Science & Inventions

Juan E. Gilbert

1969–

Juan E. Gilbert (born February 27, 1969) is an American computer scientist, researcher, inventor, and educator. An advocate of diversity in the computing sciences, Gilbert's efforts to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the computing…

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Sports & Achievement

Juan Joseph

1987–2014

Juan Joseph (August 26, 1987 – November 16, 2014) was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Millsaps Majors. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2009.…

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Sports

Juan Mendez

1981–

Juan Méndez (born September 23, 1981) is a Canadian professional basketball player who played for the Niagara University men's university basketball team from 2001 to 2005. He is currently assistant coach on the Redmen Basketball Team. Born in Montreal,…

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Civil Rights & Community

Juanita Brooks Wade

Biography

Juanita Brooks Wade is a community activist. She was an elected member of the Boston School Committee, and was also the third woman of color to be elected to the Boston School Committee. Wade was also the Chief of Human Services for the City of Boston and…

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Education & Scholarship

Juanita Jane Saddler

1892–1970

Juanita Jane Saddler (1892-1970) had a long involvement with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and was active in working to integrate that institution. She also served for a time as dean of women at Fisk University.

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Science

Juanita Merchant

Biography

Juanita L. Merchant is an American gastroenterologist and physiology researcher who has contributed to understanding of gastric response to chronic inflammation. She is currently the chief of the University of Arizona Division of Gastroenterology and…

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Biography & Culture

Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré

1942–

Juanita Westmoreland-Traore, (born March 10, 1942) is the first black judge in the history of Quebec. She is also the first black dean of a law school (the University of Windsor Faculty of Law) in Canada's history.

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Sports & Achievement

Jubie Bragg

1876–1947

Jubie Barton Bragg (February 17, 1876 – November 26, 1947) was an American college football coach an athletics administrator. He was the first head football coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Bragg coached the team off and on from…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee

1872

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A black-and-white stereograph group photograph of the original Jubilee Singers from Fisk University located in Nashville, Tennessee. The object consists of double photographs of the same image taken from two slightly different perspectives. Stereographs…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.23
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Sports

Jubrile Belo

1998–

Jubrile Izuhunwa Belo-Osagie (born 27 June 1998) is a British professional basketball player for Promitheas Patras of the Greek Basketball League. He played college basketball for the Montana State Bobcats and Lamar CC Runnin' Lopes.

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Juçara Marçal

1962–

Juçara Marçal Nunes (born 27 January 1962) is a Brazilian singer and teacher, known by her work on the bands Vésper Vocal, A Barca and Metá Metá, as well as by her solo career.

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Sports & Achievement

Judge Hughes

1944–2013

Robert E. "Judge" Hughes (November 17, 1944 – July 31, 2013) was an American football player and coach. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1967 NFL/AFL draft and played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Atlanta Falcons in 1967…

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Music

Judge Jackson

1883–1958

Judge J. Jackson (March 12, 1883, Montgomery County, Alabama - April 7, 1958, Ozark, Alabama) was an American Sacred Harp composer, songwriter, and educator. His 1934 publication The Colored Sacred Harp was later recognized by scholars such as Doris Dyen…

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Biography & Culture

Judith Ann Carter Horton

1866–1948

Judith Ann Carter Horton (May 17, 1866 – February 16, 1948) was an American educator, librarian, and community leader who founded the first public library for African Americans in Oklahoma.

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BIOGRAPHY
Medicine & Health

Judith Martin Cadore

1957–

Judith Martin Cadore (née Martin; born 1957) is a U.S. family practitioner who serves rural populations prone to health care disparities in the Bay City, Texas area. She was previously a faculty member at the San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and a clinical…

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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

Judy Bowman

1952–

Judy Bowman (b. 1952) is an American collage artist and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. She is a member of the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club and has participated in Art Basel Miami.

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Literature

Judy Jacobs

1957–

Judith Jacobs Tuttle, known professionally as Judy Jacobs (born September 27, 1957), is an American gospel musician. She started her music career when she attended Lee College in 1984, singing with the New Harvest singers and releasing her album in 1987…

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Literature

Judy Juanita

Biography

Judy Juanita is an American poet, novelist and playwright. She is a lecturer in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley. She was formerly a writing teacher at Laney College.

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BIOGRAPHY
Medicine & Health

JudyAnn Bigby

1951–

JudyAnn Bigby is an American doctor and the former secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013. She currently serves as director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in…

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Juju Bae

1992–

Juju Bae (born 1992) is an African American author, spiritual educator, Osun priestess and podcaster. She uses her platform to help her listeners navigate the practice of African traditional religions. She is best known for her podcast A Little Juju, which…

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BIOGRAPHY
Biography & Culture

JuJu Harris

Biography

Juliet "JuJu" Harris is an American cookbook author, culinary educator, and food access activist. She is the author of Healthy & Homemade: Eating Well on a Budget and the Arcadia Mobile Market Seasonal Cookbook and the owner of Nana Juju Rocks Food.

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Biography & Culture

Jules P. Harrell

1949–

Camara Jules P. Harrell (born November 19, 1949), also known as Jules P. Harrell, is a professor of psychology at Howard University and a researcher in the field of the effects of stress and racism on the health of African Americans.

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BIOGRAPHY
Visual Arts

Jules T. Allen

1947

Jules Allen (born September 13, 1947) is an American photographer, author, and educator. He is known for his photographs of African-American culture. He is an emeritus professor of Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, where…

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Civil Rights

Julia Britton Hooks

1852–1942

Julia Britton Hooks (May 4, 1852 – March 9, 1942), known as the "Angel of Beale Street," was a musician and educator whose work with youth, the elderly, and the indigent was highly respected in her family's home state of Kentucky and in Memphis, Tennessee,…

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