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Margaret Rose Vendryes
1955–2022
Margaret Rose Vendryes (March 16, 1955 – March 29, 2022) was a visual artist, curator, and art historian based in New York.
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Arts & Performance
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs
1915–2010
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (November 1, 1915[a] – November 21, 2010), also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs, was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the…
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Science & Inventions
Margaret Tolbert
1943–
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert (born November 24, 1943) is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum. From 1996 to 2002 she served as…
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Education & Scholarship
Margaret Una Poché
1912–1982
Margaret Una Poché (1912 – February 12, 1982) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of the National Association of University Women.
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Margaretta Forten
1806–1875
Margaretta Forten (September 11, 1806 – January 13, 1875) was an African-American suffragist and abolitionist.
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Photographs and Still Images
Margarita in a Bilingual Classroom
June 4, 1981; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a young child, Margarita, crouched on the floor writing in a bilingual classroom with her back to the camera. Wearing a horizontally stripped shirt, pants, and shoes, she is writing on a piece of paper…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.53.36
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Biography & Culture
Margherita Taylor
1972–
Margherita Taylor is an English TV and radio presenter. She is a freelancer with Global Group and presents on stations Smooth Radio and Classic FM. She studied media and communications at the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University),…
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Margo Humphrey
1942–
Margo Humphrey (born June 25, 1942) is an American printmaker, illustrator and art teacher. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Stanford after earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts in printmaking. She…
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Margo Jefferson
1947–
Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947) is an American writer and academic. Also a journalist, writing since 1993 for The New York Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Other publications for which she has written include…
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Science & Invention
Marguerita Lightfoot
Dates not recorded
Marguerita Lightfoot is a counseling psychologist known for her research in the field of preventive medicine, especially in regard to HIV prevention and advocacy for homeless youth. She is professor of medicine at the University of California, San…
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Politics
Marguerite Archie-Hudson
1937–
Marguerite Archie-Hudson (born November 18, 1937) is an American politician, and academic administrator. She served as a democrat in the California State Assembly from the 48th district, from 1990 to 1996. She also served as the president of her alma…
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Marguerite Ross Barnett
1942–1992
Marguerite Ross Barnett (May 21, 1942 – February 26, 1992) was the eighth president of the University of Houston and a former chancellor of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Barnett was the first African American woman to lead a major American university.
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Literature
Marguerite Wyke
1908–1995
Marguerite Wyke OBE (May 1908 – 1995) was an American-born Trinidadian teacher, poet, artist and politician. After growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, and working as a teacher, she married and moved to Canada for a decade and then relocated to Trinidad.…
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal
1974–
Maria Nicole Chappelle-Nadal (born October 3, 1974) is an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 86th district from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat from University City, Missouri, she represented district 14 in the…
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Maria d'Apparecida
1926–2017
Maria d'Apparecida Marques (17 January 1926 – 4 July 2017) was a Brazilian opera singer. She began her working career as a primary school teacher in Rio de Janeiro before becoming an announcer on various Brazilian radio broadcast stations. D'Apparecida had…
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Maria Fearing
1838–1937
Maria Fearing (July 26, 1838 – May 23, 1937) was an American teacher and missionary, most famous for her work in the Congo Free State.
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Maria Louisa Bustill
1853–1904
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was an American Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his…
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Maria Louise Baldwin
1856–1922
Maria Louise Baldwin (September 13, 1856 – January 9, 1922) was an American educator and civic leader born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lived almost all of her life in Cambridge and Boston. Writing in 1917, W. E. B. Du Bois claimed she had…
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María Magdalena Campos Pons
1959–
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born July 22, 1959) is a Cuban-born artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban artists who found…
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Maria P. Williams
1866–1932
Maria Priscilla Thurston Williams (1866–1932) was a newspaper editor, film producer, author, and scriptwriter. She is credited as the first African-American woman film producer for the silent crime drama The Flames of Wrath in 1923. A one-time school…
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Historical photographs & documents
Maria Regina Class of 79!
n.d.
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Maria Regina Class of 79!” (Text).
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.A2013.149.3, Item 5
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Maria Thompson
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Maria Thompson is an American scientist and academic administrator who served as the 7th president of Coppin State University. She was the first female president.
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Maria W. Stewart
1803–1879
Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an African American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut. She is widely recognized as the first woman in the United States to give a public speech and the first…
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Marial Shayok
1995–
Marial Makur Shayok ( SHAY-ok; born July 26, 1995) is a South Sudanese-Canadian professional basketball player for Budućnost of the Montenegrin Prva A Liga, the ABA League, and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers and Iowa…
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