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1892–1978
Llewellyn J. Scott, TOSF (1892 – December 17, 1978) was an American Catholic activist who founded the St. Martin de Porres Hospice in Washington, D.C. in 1935. He was the first African American to start a Catholic Worker House and was a member of the Third…
1925–2002
Lloyd Augustus Barbee (August 17, 1925 – December 29, 2002) was an American lawyer and politician who worked for civil rights. He led the effort to integrate the Milwaukee Public School system. He was a Democrat.
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Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, Sr. (1848 – 1909) was an African American attorney, businessman, philanthropist, and political leader. Wheeler was the first African-American to practice law in the state of Illinois and was influential in the establishment of…
1913–2003
Lloyd Louis Brown (April 3, 1913 – April 1, 2003) was an American labor organizer, Communist Party activist, journalist, novelist, friend and editorial companion of Paul Robeson's, and a Robeson biographer.
Born 1911
Lloyd Lionel Gaines (born 1911 – disappeared March 19, 1939) was the plaintiff in Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important early court cases in the 20th-century U.S. civil rights movement. After being denied admission to the University of…
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Lloyd Leftwich (1832–1918) was a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was a state senator from 1872 to 1876. He was photographed with other members of the state senate in 1872.
1949
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe lobby card depicts three men in a room. The man to the far left is sitting and appearing to be getting either dressed or undressed. The man in the middle is kneeling in front of the fireplace in the room. The third man is standing to the far right and…
1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLobby card for the film Lem Hawkins' Confession. The lobby card depicts a tinted image of a man in a long sleeve button down shirt, blue denim overalls, and shoes. He is looking straight ahead. His proper right arm is down by his side and his right knee is…
1939
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLobby card for Lying Lips. This lobby card for Lying Lips depicts a color scene from the film. There are four people in the image, three men and one woman. There is a man sitting at a large wooden desk on the proper right side of the image. He is wearing a…
1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA lobby card for the 1935 film "Temptation". In the top left corner in red text reads "Oscar Micheaux". Below that in blue it reads "Presents/ A Great colored cast in". Below the writing is a picture bordered in red. Starting to the left of the picture is…
December 1965
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLobo, Number 1, December 1965 edition, published by Dell Publishing Company. This first issue was written by DJ Arneson and illustrated by Tony Tallarico and was the first comic book series with an African-American lead character. The front cover of the…
1919–1997
Ernest Leroy Nocho (January 14, 1919 – September 4, 1997), better known by his stage name Lobo Nocho, was an emigré jazz singer and painter in Europe. A former United States citizen, he settled in Europe after serving in World War II, and renounced his…
ca. 1949
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBrad Keeler Artwares Lobsterware salt and pepper shakers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.43.3a: The salt shaker has two (2) holes under the lobster's mouth. The shaker is shaped like the front half of lobsters and has two (2) holes under the…
1940s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLocal Politicians - Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 189. A black-and-white photograph of politicians addressing a crowd from a box draped in American flags and an image of President…
early to mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLocket belonging to Harriette Vyda Simms Moore with two black and white photographs inside of herself and her husband Harry Tyson Moore. This circular locket opens into two halves, each half with a small photograph. The outside of the locket is a gold…
1975–
Logic Seven Allah Amen (born 1975), better known as Logic Amen, is a community activist and organizer from Seattle, Washington, as well as an educator, actor, and hip-hop songwriter. He is the creator and organizer of the Griot Party Experience event…
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Lois Jeanette Curtis (14 July 1967 – 3 November 2022) was an American artist and the lead plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case that became known as the Olmstead Decision in which the court held that the unjustified segregation of people with…
1945–2013
Lois Marie DeBerry (May 5, 1945 – July 28, 2013) was an American politician who was a member of Tennessee House of Representatives and former Speaker Pro Tempore of the Tennessee House. She was elected to represent the 91st district, part of Shelby County,…
1936–2017
Lois Fernandez (1936 – August 13, 2017) was a political and cultural activist, best known for founding the Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The festival celebrates African and African-American heritage. It has continued for more than forty…
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Lois Towles (April 4, 1912 – March 18, 1983) was an American classical pianist, music educator, and community activist. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, she grew up in the town straddling the Arkansas and Texas line. From an early age, she was interested in…
1932–2013
Lola Mae Haynes Hendricks (née Haynes) (December 19, 1932 – May 17, 2013) was corresponding secretary for Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1956 to 1963. She assisted Wyatt Walker in planning the early portions of the…
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Margaret Omolola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey (born 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, crossbench peer, and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
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London Nicole Breed (born August 11, 1974) is an American politician who served as the 45th mayor of San Francisco from 2018 to 2025. She served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 5 from 2013 to 2018 and was the board's president from…
1940-2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a pair of long kid gloves that belonged to Etta Moten Barnett. Made of white kid leather, the gloves go past the elbow. They are fitted and have no stamps or makers marks. There is a dark smudge on one arm.
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