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c. 1844–1907
Lewis trained in Boston and built her career in Rome, carving neoclassical marble sculptures that addressed emancipation, faith and Indigenous heritage.
1920–2001
Edmund James Cambridge Jr. (September 18, 1920 – August 18, 2001) was an American actor and director who was a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and the Kilpatrick-Cambridge Theater Arts School.
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Edna Belle Alexander (1892–1972) was an American soprano singer and music composer. In addition to performing, she became a songwriter and published music under the name Alex Belledna.
1911–2004
Edna Burke Jackson (January 25, 1911 – February 21, 2004) was an American educator and writer. She was the first African American woman to teach at what was then Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. In 2022, the school was renamed Jackson-Reed…
1907–1982
Edna Guy (1907–1982) was an African-American modern dance pioneer. Born in 1907 in Summit, New Jersey, Guy lived at a time when blacks and whites did not appear on stage together. At the age of fifteen she begged her mother to take her to a dance concert…
1916–2006
Edna Regina Lewis (April 13, 1916 – February 13, 2006) was a renowned American chef, teacher, and author who helped refine the American view of Southern cooking. She championed the use of fresh, in season ingredients and characterized Southern food as…
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Edna Lewis Thomas (November 1, 1885 – July 22, 1974) was an American stage actress whose career began in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. She appeared on Broadway, with the Lafayette Players theater company, and in productions by the Federal…
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Edna Mae Robinson (September 4, 1915 – May 2, 2002) was an American dancer, actress, and activist. She was a dancer at the Cotton Club and toured Europe with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. She later became a public figure when she married the boxer Sugar…
1935–1980
Edna McGriff (December 16, 1935 – March 25, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist. She recorded mainly in the 1950s, and secured one hit single on the US Billboard R&B chart with "Heavenly Father" in 1952. The record sold over 500,000…
1949–
Edna Patricia Lowe Swift (born September 30, 1949) was the first Black graduate of Agnes Scott College, earning a Bachelor's of Arts in Spanish in 1971. She went on to serve as an educator in the Atlanta Public Schools system for 28 years. Swift's legacy…
1949–
Edna Woods (born August 23, 1949), also known as LeJeune Richardson, is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was an Ikette in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s and 1970s, and later a dancer for Tina Turner in the 1980s and 1990s. Richardson…
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Ednorah Nahar (1873-1936) was an African American elocutionist from Boston who flourished between the late 1880s and early 1900s giving dramatic recitations throughout the United States, as well as abroad.
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Edogu, Okakagbe Masquerade, Ayogiri, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Edokhe Ediawe, Iyeluwa, Okpella, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1959
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGHazel Ryckman, a Baptist missionary teacher, reads to Rukuba children in Zagun, 20 miles west of Jos, Nigeria.
1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Education officer at desk, Kalahari Desert, Botswana” (Negatives (photographic)).
1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Education officer with annual report, Kalahari Desert, Botswana” (Negatives (photographic)).
Dates not recorded
Edward (Jonas) Barrett was a formerly enslaved person from Jamaica. He attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London on the 12–23 June 1840. He is depicted in the painting entitled "The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840" by artist Benjamin…
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Edward Hammond Boatner (13 November 1898–16 June 1981) was an American composer who wrote many popular concert arrangements of Black American spirituals.
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Edward Christopher Williams (February 11, 1871 – December 24, 1929) was the first African-American professionally trained librarian in the United States. His sudden death in 1929 ended his career the year he was expected to receive the first Ph.D. in…
1885–1939
William Edward Elcha (1885 – November 3, 1939) was an American photographer known for his Jazz Age Broadway photographs of Harlem performers and celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. The Harry Ransom Center has his photographs in its collection. He also…
1916–2011
Edward Leroy Loper Sr. (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2011) was an African American artist and teacher from Delaware, best known for his vibrant palette and juxtaposition of colors. He taught painting for almost 70 years.
1959–2018
Edward Lee Elmore (January 13, 1959 – December 3, 2018) was an intellectually disabled man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 rape and murder of Dorothy Edwards, a wealthy South-Carolinian. He is notable for being South Carolina's…
Dates not recorded
Edward Lewis was a photographer and filmmaker who documented prominent African Americans and their activities in his documentary film series. He worked as a photographer for the Daily News before becoming a filmmaker. He made 12 documentary shorts for…
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