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1990–
Anthony A. Bellmon (born April 12, 1990) is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 203rd District since 2023.
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Anthony Allen Williams (born Anthony Stephen Eggleton; July 28, 1951) is an American politician who was the mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, serving from 1999 to 2007. Williams was first elected in the 1998 mayoral election, and was…
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Anthony Adams is an American lawyer and politician who served as former deputy-mayor of Detroit under Kwame Kilpatrick. Adams was a candidate in the 2021 Detroit mayoral election, running against current Detroit mayor, Mike Duggan, after advancing from the…
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Anthony B. Bradley is an American theologian, author and cultural analyst. The author of twelve books, including Aliens in the Promised Land, which launched a minority-led conversation about racism in the U.S. evangelical church, he has also published…
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Anthony A. Beale (born October 22, 1967) is an American politician and the alderman of the 9th ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois United States. Beale is noted as having been one of the youngest members to serve as elected official on the City of…
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Anthony Binga Jr. (June 1, 1843 – January 21, 1919) was an American minister, educator, businessman, and board chairman of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention. He was one of the first African Americans to serve as a public school teacher in Virginia.
1960–
Anthony Broadwater (born November 16, 1960) is an African American man who was wrongfully convicted of raping author Alice Sebold in 1982. His conviction was overturned in 2021 after significant flaws in the evidence and procedures used during his trial…
1907–1983
Anthony Brutus Cassius (June 29, 1907 – August 1, 1983) was an African-American businessman, activist, and labor organizer in Minneapolis. He organized an all-Black waiters union at the Curtis Hotel in 1935 and owned three bars which were some of the first…
1799–1860
Anthony David Williams Sr. (1799 – 1860) was an Americo-Liberian politician who served as the second vice president of Liberia from 1850 to 1854 under President Joseph Jenkins Roberts. Born free in the United States in 1799, he immigrated as a Methodist…
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Anthony Daniels (born October 5, 1982) is an American politician and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing House District 53 since 2014. Since February 22, 2017, Daniels has served as minority leader in the state House of…
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Anthony Duclair (born August 26, 1995) is a Haitian-Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Duclair was selected by the New York Rangers in the third round, 80th overall, of…
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Anthony Renard Foxx (born April 30, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Foxx had previously served as Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina…
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Anthony L. Nolan (born c. 1970) is an American politician and retired law enforcement officer serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 39th district. He assumed office on March 1, 2019.
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Anthony Phelps (August 25, 1928 – March 11, 2025) was a Haitian-Canadian writer, whose novel La contrainte de l’inachevé was a Governor General's Literary Award nominee for French-language fiction at the 2007 Governor General's Awards.
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Anthony Ray Hinton (born June 1, 1956) is an American activist, writer, and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row…
1949–
Anthony Sherwood (born 1949) is a Canadian actor, filmmaker and activist. He has been active in film, television, and theatre productions since his film debut in 1979. On television he is known for his role as Jason Locke on season four of Airwolf (1987),…
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Anthony Sparks is an American television showrunner, writer-producer, and playwright. He is also an essay writer who focuses on media, performance, and African American politics and culture. He has a Ph.D. in American studies & ethnicity from USC and began…
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Anthony L. Stanford (1830–1883) was a state senator in Arkansas from 1877 until 1880. He was born in New Jersey. He was a Republican in 1877 and a Greenback in 1879.
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Anthony William Gardner (January 24, 1820 – 1885), sometimes written as Gardiner, served as the ninth president of Liberia from 1878 until 1883. He was the first of a series of thirteen True Whig presidents who held uninterrupted power in Liberia from 1878…
1980–
Anthony Christopher Woods (born July 20, 1980) is an American politician who served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans and Military Families from 2023 to 2025. He was a U.S. Army officer deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Woods…
1938
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pamphlet titled, "Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Democracy". The pamphlet contains speeches by James W. Ford and Theodore Bassett. The cover has Ford's name at the top, the title at center, a description in the lower right, and copyright information…
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Antionette D. Carroll is an activist and entrepreneur working for racial and health equity. She looks at systems of oppression from a design perspective. In Carroll’s mind, the same way a machine can be redesigned so can these social systems.
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Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation.
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Antoinette Harrell (born c. 1960) is an American historian, genealogist, and civil rights activist. She is known for her research on the post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers in the southern United States.
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