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1904–1954
Edward Matthews (1904 or 1905 – 20 February 1954) was a pioneering African-American baritone opera singer. Matthews was born in Ossining, New York. In 1934, he created the role of Ignatius of Loyola in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which he…
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Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon School. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife…
1949–2010
Edward Owens (1949–2010) was a queer African-American filmmaker, active within the New American Cinema of the 1960s. A native Chicagoan, he is best known for his experimental films Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) and Private Imaginings and Narrative…
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Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin…
1925–1984
Edward Virgil Abner (sometimes billed as E. Virgil Abner or simply Virgil Abner; 1925–1984) was an American tenor and psychologist. As a singer he was primarily active in the 1950s and 1960s. He performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago among other…
1921–1986
Edward William Hawthorne (November 30, 1921 – October 7, 1986) was an American cardiologist and academic administrator. After getting his degrees at Howard University and University of Illinois Chicago, he returned to Howard as part of the faculty and was…
1950s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGEdward Weston - and Paula Schwartz, at his home, Carmel, California, 1950's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 208. A black-and-white photograph of an elderly Edward Weston sitting at his kitchen table in Carmel, California.…
1978–
Edward Wyckoff Williams (born 6 February 1978) is an American television producer, correspondent, columnist, political analyst and former investment banker; whose work has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BuzzFeed, PBS, ABC, CNN, CBS, BBC, VICE Media,…
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Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [edˈwidʒ dãtiˈka]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club…
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Edwin Bancroft Henderson (November 24, 1883 – February 3, 1977), was an American educator and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pioneer. Called the "Father of Black Basketball", he introduced basketball to African Americans…
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Edwin Henry Hackley, also commonly known as Edwin H. Hackley (1859 – 1940), was the first African-American lawyer admitted to the Colorado Bar Association (1883). Beginning in 1886, he worked as the Denver County Clerk, and then spent almost 14 years as an…
1984
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn image of Edwin Moses. Moses is featured leaning against of wall. He is wearing a gray sweat suit. The sweatshirt top has an American flag at center.
1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn image of Edwin Moses hurdling. Moses is in full stride, with one leg extended over the hurdle, and the other pointing towards the ground. Moses is shirtless, wearing red shorts, sneakers, a chain necklace, and a bracelet. The background of the image is…
1950–
Edwina Pettway (born 1950) is an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. She learned to quilt from her mother, Candis Pettway, alongside her sisters Qunnie Pettway and Sally Mae Pettway.
1907–2002
Edwina Streeter Dixon (1907–2002) was a short story writer. Her most notable short story is "Pa Sees Again," which was published in the Afro-American and the anthology Best Short Stories By Afro-American Writers (1925-1950).
1938
Edythe (Edy) Boone (born 1938), is an African-American artist and activist. She has worked as a muralist, counselor, and art teacher throughout her life in an under-served area in California. She is the aunt of Eric Garner, an African-American man who was…
1924–2011
Edythe Scott Bagley (December 13, 1924 – June 11, 2011) was an American author, activist, and educator. The older sister of Coretta Scott King, she worked behind the scenes to promote the Civil Rights Movement and was actively involved in many of the…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Edzog Costume, Okakagbe, Ogbido, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Edzog, Okakagbe Masquerade, Iyora, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1985–
Eesean Bolden (born July 27, 1985) is an American music executive and entrepreneur. He has been the senior Vice President of A&R at Warner Bros since 2016. Bolden also had Epic Records, the division of Sony Entertainment, Inc., and Capitol Records, a…
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Efajemue "Efa" Etoroma Jr. (born August 3, 1988), is a Canadian jazz musician most noted for his 2021 album Aesthetics, which was a Juno Award nominee for Jazz Album of the Year – Solo at the Juno Awards of 2022. As a drummer, Etoroma has been compared to…
1885–1979
Effie Lee Newsome (January 16, 1885 – 1979), born Mary Effie Lee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a Harlem Renaissance writer. She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. Her first…
Biography
Effie T. Battle (c. 1882 – after 1940) was an African-American poet and educator. The wife of Wallace A. Battle, she served as President of Okolona College from 1927 to 1933, succeeding her husband.
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Effie T. Brown is a film and television producer known for such films as Rocket Science, Real Women Have Curves, Everyday People, Desert Blue, Dear White People, and But I'm a Cheerleader. She is seen in the fourth season of Project Greenlight as a…
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