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1954–2022
Lillian M. Lowery (1954 – April 13, 2022) was an American government official and educator who served as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education in the Cabinet of Governors Martin O'Malley and Larry Hogan from July 2012 to September,…
1930–2011
Lillian Mobley (1930–2011) was an American community activist. She was active in the African-American community of South Los Angeles and was instrumental in the establishment of a major hospital in the neighborhood. According to U.S. Representative Maxine…
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Lillian Davis Roberts (January 2, 1928 – July 9, 2026) was an American union leader who served from 2002 through 2014 as the executive director of District Council 37 (DC37), the largest municipal union in New York City.
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Lillian May Parker Thomas Fox (November 1854 – August 29, 1917) was an African American journalist, clubwoman, public speaker, and civic activist in Indianapolis, Indiana, who rose to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s as a writer for the Indianapolis…
1928–2017
Lillie Mae Bradford (October 1, 1928 – March 14, 2017) was an American civil rights activist who, four years before Rosa Parks's more publicized action, performed an act of civil disobedience on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for which she was…
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Lillie May Carroll Jackson (May 25, 1889 – July 5, 1975), was a pioneer civil rights activist and organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. Known as "Dr. Lillie", "Ma Jackson", and the "mother of the civil rights movement", Lillie May Carroll Jackson…
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Elected in 1968, Alexander later became the first Black federal cabinet minister and, in 1985, Ontario’s first Black lieutenant-governor.
1989–
Lincoln Barnett (born February 8, 1989) is an American politician. He was elected member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for the 63rd district in 2024. Barnett was mayor of Hughes, Arkansas.
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Linda Ann Bellos (born 13 December 1950) is a British businesswoman, radical feminist and lesbian rights activist. In 1981 she became the first woman of African descent to join the Spare Rib collective. She was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in London…
1948–
Linda Burnham (born 1948) is an American journalist, activist, and leader in women's rights movements, particularly with organizations and projects serving and advocating for women of color.
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Linda Carol Brown (February 20, 1943 – March 25, 2018) was an American campaigner for equality in education. As a school-girl in 1954, Brown became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education.
1947–
Linda Ann Pondexter Chesterfield (born September 13, 1947, in Hope, Arkansas) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate, serving from 2011 to 2025. She represented District 12 and, prior to redistricting, Districts 34…
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Linda Coleman (born July 12, 1949) is an American politician from the state of North Carolina. Coleman was elected to three terms as a Democratic state representative in the North Carolina General Assembly before being appointed director of the Office of…
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Linda Foster Coleman-Madison is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 20th District since 2006. Previously she was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2003 through 2006.
1961–
Linda Deliah Thompson (born 1960) is an American politician and former mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania serving from January 4, 2010, until January 6, 2014. Thompson was Harrisburg's first female and first black mayor. In 2016 Thompson established LDT…
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Linda F. Coleman (born September 27, 1961) is an American judge, attorney, and former lawmaker from the state of Mississippi. She has served as Circuit Court Judge of Mississippi's Eleventh Circuit Court District since 2016.
May 28, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.89.1a, 2011.174.89.1b, 2011.174.89.1c, 2011.174.89.1d, 2011.174.89.1e, and 2011.174.89.1f. Linda Fuller Degelmann discusses her experiences at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. She and her former…
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Linda Goode Bryant (born July 21, 1949) is an African-American documentary filmmaker and activist. She founded the gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM), which was the focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2022, organized by curator…
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Linda James Myers (born 1948) is an American psychologist of African American and Native American ancestry, who is best known for developing a theory of optimal psychology. Optimal psychology theory relies on African and Native American worldviews to…
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Linda L. Singh is an American retired major general of the Maryland Army National Guard. She was appointed as the 29th adjutant general of Maryland effective January 21, 2015, responsible for the daily operations of the Maryland Military Department, which…
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield (born November 22, 1952) is an American diplomat who served as the 31st United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. She served as the U.S. 18th assistant secretary of state for African…
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Linda Washington Cropp (born October 5, 1947)) is an American politician from Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. She was a Democratic member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where she was the first woman to serve as the elected…
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Lindsay Blackett (born February 8, 1961) is a Canadian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-North West as a Progressive Conservative.
1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a Links conference name tag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It consists of a white cardboard rectangle with a blue-green strip at the bottom margin. In the top left corner of the card is a graphic in blue-green. It depicts a globe encircled by the…
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