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1842–1865
Julia C. Collins (c. 1842 – November 25, 1865), was an African American schoolteacher in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who in 1864 and 1865 contributed essays and other writings to The Christian Recorder, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal…
1891–1993
Julia Davis (November 20, 1891 – April 26, 1993) was an African-American woman who for more than 60 years served as an educational force in St. Louis.
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Julia Evangeline Brooks (June, 1882 – November 24, 1948) was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority founded by African-American women. Having earned a B.A. degree at Howard University and M.A. at Columbia University, Brooks was a devoted…
March 13, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.73.1a and 2011.174.73.1b. Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in…
1924–1979
Julia Amanda Perry (March 25, 1924 – April 24, 1979) was an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with her African-American heritage.
1865–1918
Julia R. Hall (October 1, 1865 - April 28, 1918) was an American physician. Graduating from medical school in 1892, Hall was the first woman to work as a resident in the Howard University gynecology clinic. Her career as a physician lasted around fifty years.
1811–1870
Julia Ward Williams Garnet (July 1, 1811 - January 7, 1870) was an American abolitionist who was active in Massachusetts and New York. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, she moved with her family as a child to Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated…
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Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he…
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Julian C. Chambliss (born 1971) is professor of history at Michigan State University and previously taught at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and is primarily known as a scholar of the real and imagined city and on comics. He served as coordinator…
1951–
Julian Henriques (born 1951) is a British filmmaker, researcher, writer and academic. He is a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the Media and Communications Department, with his particular research interests being culture, technology and…
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Julian Herman Lewis (May 26, 1891 – March 6, 1989) was an American pathologist. The son of a freed slave, Lewis became the first African-American associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1922. His research interests included racial differences…
1859–
Julian Talbot Bailey (born March 22, 1859 – unknown) was an African-American lawyer, educator, journalist, newspaper editor, publisher, and civil rights advocate in Arkansas. Bailey was born in Warren County, Georgia. He graduated from Howard University…
1972–
Juliana Yendork (born 29 August 1972) is a retired Ghanaian American long jumper and triple jumper. She won the gold medal at the 1988 African Championships. That year she also competed at the 1988 Olympic Games, one month before her 16th birthday to…
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Julianne Marie Malveaux (born September 22, 1953) is an American economist, author, social and political commentator, and businesswoman. After five years as the 15th president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, she resigned on May 6, 2012.
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Julianne Pollard-Larkin is an American medical physicist, professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX and is also the Physics Service Chief for the Thoracic service of MD Anderson's Division of Radiation Oncology. She is also the chair of the…
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Juliano Moreira (6 January 1872 – 2 May 1933) was a Brazilian psychiatrist, often considered the pioneer of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Moreira was the first Brazilian university professor to cite and use the psychoanalytic theory in teaching medicine.
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Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A.…
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Julie Hayden (c. 1857 – August 21, 1874), sometimes Julia Hayden, was an American Black school teacher murdered by members of the White Man's League within days of starting a teaching position at a school for Black children in Tennessee.
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Julie Lythcott-Haims (born 1967) is an American educator, author, and politician. She has written three non-fiction books: How to Raise an Adult, on parenting; Real American, a memoir; and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult. She served as dean of freshmen and…
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Juliet Alexander is a Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter, who for more than four decades has worked in print and broadcast media, as well as in a range of educational and community organisations. She is notable as a…
1940–
Juliet E. K. Walker (born 1940) is an American historian, writer, and educator. She is a foremost scholar on African-American entrepreneurship, her books on Free Frank McWorter and the history of African-American business having won various awards. Walker…
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Juliet U. Elu is an American economist who is currently Charles E. Merrill Professor of Economics and Chair of the Division of Business and Economics at Morehouse College. She was previously Vice Chancellor of Gregory University in Nigeria and she is a…
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Juliette Derricotte (April 1, 1897 – November 7, 1931) was an American educationist and political activist. At the time of her death, she was the Dean of Women at Fisk University. Her death, after being turned away from a white-only hospital following a…
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Julius Dixon is an American football coach and former player. He is the former head football coach at Point University in West Point, Georgia, a position he has held since 2016. Dixon served as the interim head football coach at Savannah State University…
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