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1984–
Mariama J. Lockington (born December 30, 1984) is an American poet, author, educator, advocate and transracial adoptee.
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Marian Cecelia Johnson-Thompson (born December 9, 1946) is an American virologist who was a professor at the University of the District of Columbia. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Marian L. Palmer Capps (also known as Mrs John Winston Capps, 1901 – November 17, 2001) was an American mathematician who became a professor at Norfolk State University and president of the Women's Auxiliary to the National Medical Association.
1946–
Marian Elizabeth Washington (born August 26, 1946) is a former women's basketball coach, mostly known for her career at the University of Kansas, a post she held for over 30 years. Throughout her career, Washington achieved multiple awards and…
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Marie Bernadette Lucas (c. 1875 – February 23, 1935) was an African American physician, one of the earliest women to practice medicine in Washington, D.C. As a young woman, she worked in public schools in Washington, having studied at the Miner Normal…
1910–1985
Marie Battle Singer (1910–1985) was an American-British psychotherapist, and the United Kingdom's first Black psychoanalyst. She was born in 1910 into a family of educators in Okolona, Mississippi. Her father was Wallace A. Battle, founder of the Okolona…
1973–
Marie-Carmelle Elie (born October 12, 1973) is an American emergency physician who is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
1962–
Marie T. Cochran (born 1962) is an American installation artist, educator, project strategist, art writer, and art curator. In 2020 to 2022, she was Lehman Brady Professor, at Duke University.
2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn abstract mixed media sculpture by Adebunmi Gdabedo. The sculpture consists of a large, cylindrical ceramic vessel with human and ceramic locs attached along the back. The vessel is made with red clay hand dug from the True Blue Plantation in South…
1917–2003
Marie Priscilla Martin Foster (October 24, 1917 – September 6, 2003) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the 1960s. Her successful voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama fueled her to become an activist, and she began…
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Marie-Françoise Mégie (born September 21, 1950) is a Canadian physician, university professor at the Université de Montreal and former member of the Independent Senators Group in the Senate of Canada. Born in Jacmel, Haiti, she moved to Quebec in 1976. She…
1923–2007
Marie A. Hicks (December 20, 1923 – April 19, 2007) was an African-American activist during the American civil rights movement. Nicknamed "the Rosa Parks of Girard College," Hicks is best known for leading thousands of pickets around the wall of that…
Born 1870
Marie Imogene Williams (born 5 November 1870) was an American dentist and teacher, the first African American female dentist to graduate from Howard University's dental school, in 1896.
1920–2018
Marie Johnson-Calloway (née Marie Edwards; April 10, 1920 – February 11, 2018), was an American artist, educator and activist. She worked in the fields of painting, sculpture, and mixed-media assemblage, and is known for her Black portraiture. She taught…
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Marie-Josèphe dite Angélique (c. 1705–1734) was an enslaved Black woman in New France who was accused, tried, and executed for allegedly setting fire to Montreal in 1734. While earlier historical interpretations accepted her guilt, more recent scholarship…
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Marie Louise Clay Clinton (1871 – January 9, 1934) was an American educator, singer, and church leader. She was the founder and superintendent of the Buds of Promise Juvenile Mission Society, under the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society (WH&OMS)…
1801–1881
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, a herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, and…
1921–2003
Daly earned her doctorate from Columbia University in 1947 and conducted influential research on cholesterol, hypertension and the biochemistry of the cell nucleus.
1946–2022
Dr. Marie Valentine McDemmond (1946 – July 27, 2022) was an American educator and third president of Norfolk State University, and the first African-American woman to serve as the head of a four-year college in Virginia. She served as president from 1997…
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Marie-Sœurette Mathieu (August 10, 1949 – July 20, 2023) was a Haitian sociologist, teacher and writer who lived in Quebec until the end of her life. She was also a painter. She left her native land in 1970 and went first to the United States and later to…
1911–1990
Marie Clark Taylor (February 16, 1911 – December 28, 1990) was an American botanist, the first woman to earn a science doctorate at Fordham University, and the Head of the Botany Department at Howard University from 1947 to her retirement in 1976. Her…
Biography
Marilyn M. White is an American folklorist who researches African American folklore and family folklore.
1946–
Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut. She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly…
1962–
Marilyn E. Strutchens (born 1962) is an African-American mathematics educator focusing on the training of secondary-school mathematics teachers and on equity issues in mathematics education. She has served as president of the Association of Mathematics…
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