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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of letters, sent January–March 1869 (224), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of letters sent, July 1865–June 1866, 1 (49) and 2 (50), are arranged chronologically.
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the…
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Levi John Rowan (August 7, 1871 – June 28, 1934) was an American academic administrator, educator, and photographer. He served two terms as the president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) a historically black…
1926–2000
Levi Jackson (August 22, 1926 – December 7, 2000) was an American college football player and business executive. He was the first African-American football captain at Yale, and the first African-American executive at Ford Motor Company.
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Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins…
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Lewis Adams (October 27, 1842 – April 30, 1905) was an African-American former slave in Macon County, Alabama, who is best remembered for his work in helping found the school in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama which grew to become the normal school that with its…
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Lewis Baxter Moore (1866–1928) was an American classicist, scholar, university teacher, and Presbyterian pastor. He was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) from the University of Pennsylvania.
1917–2000
Lewis Carnegie Dowdy (1 September 1917 – 17 December 2000) was an American educator and the sixth president, and first chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Biography
Lewis Charlton was an orator, school founder, and temperance advocate. He was born a into slavery in the United States in about 1814. He died a speaker in the temperance movement in England, and lived a very eventful life inbetween.
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Lewis D. Ferebee (born c. 1974) is an American educator serving as the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools since 2019. He was superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools from 2013 to 2018. Ferebee was previously the chief of staff for…
1962–
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and…
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Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) escaped slavery in Kentucky with his family and reached Canada. He established a school for African Americans before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. There he became an abolitionist, lecturer, businessman,…
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Lewis Thomas Christmas (November 5, 1855 - June 27, 1928) was a reverend, teacher, school principal, and state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Warren County, North Carolina, in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1879 to 1880.
1910–1979
Lewis Wade Jones (March 13, 1910 – September 1979) was a sociologist and teacher. He was born in Cuero, Texas, the son of Wade E. and Lucynthia McDade Jones. A member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, he received his AB degree from Fisk University in 1931,…
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Lewis Watts (born 1946) is an American photographer, archivist curator, art historian, author, lecturer, and educator. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz (U.C. Santa Cruz).
1806–1878
Lewis Woodson (January 1806 – January 1878) was an American educator, minister, writer, and abolitionist. He was an early leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Woodson started and helped to build other…
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Lexi Lloyd-Smith (born 5 March 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Crystal Palace and the England under-23s. She previously played for Bristol City, Southampton, Charlton Athletic, and college…
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Leyla Hussein (Somali: Leyla Xuseen) is a Somali-born British psychotherapist and social activist. She is the founder of Dahlia project, one of the co-founders of the Daughters of Eve non-profit organisation and a Chief Executive of Hawa's Haven. In 2020,…
1932–2017
Lez Edmond (May 9, 1932 - April 2017) was an American philosopher, social activist, civil rights journalist, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement (1865–1896).
Biography
Lia Beth Epperson (born 1971 or 1972) is an American civil rights lawyer and professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. She previously served as the senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at the law school. Epperson…
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis poster shows a central figure silhouetted in black holding a rifle in one hand. Their other hand is raised towards the sky with a clenched fist. The figure stands on a red map of Puerto Rico. The heading on the poster reads: [LIBERATE PUERTO RICO…
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Liberty Billings (1823–1877) was an American officer in the Union Army, a Unitarian minister, and a state senator. Billings was born in Saco, Maine in 1823. He was educated at Thornton Academy and later graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1848.
1930-1950
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA woodcut print of a two story building surrounded by shrubs. A tree is in the foreground of the print at left. The building has a cupola with weather vain. The cupola is surrounded by clouds. Additional buildings can be seen in the background. The print…
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