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1913–2000
Margaret Just Butcher (April 28, 1913 – February 7, 2000) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Butcher worked as an English professor at Howard University and Federal City College. She also taught for years overseas.
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Margaret Murray Washington (née Murray; March 9, 1865 – June 4, 1925) was an American educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University. She also led women's clubs, including the Tuskegee…
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Dame Margaret Obi is a British judge who is a justice of the High Court. She is the most senior black judge in the United Kingdom.
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Margaret Prescod is an activist, author, journalist and radio host. She was a founder of The Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and of Black Women for Wages for Housework. Prescod is on the executive board of the Center for the Study of Racism,…
1922–1996
Margaret James Strickland Collins (September 4, 1922 – April 27, 1996) was an African-American child prodigy, entomologist (zoologist) specializing in the study of termites, and passionate civil rights advocate. Collins was nicknamed the "Termite Lady"…
1947–2004
Margaret Sloan-Hunter (May 31, 1947 – September 23, 2004) was a Black feminist, lesbian, civil rights advocate, and one of the early editors of Ms. magazine.
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Margaret Florence Wright (née Nusom; December 15, 1921 — May 11, 1996) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States and a community activist in Los Angeles, California. Wright was a shipyard worker during World War II, and one of the…
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Margareth Menezes da Purificação (born 13 October 1962) is a Brazilian singer and politician from Salvador, Bahia. She currently serves as Minister of Culture under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba…
1958–
Margarett R. Best is a former Canadian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (MPP) from 2007 to 2013 and represented the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty.
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Margie Bright Matthews (born February 10, 1963) is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District since 2015, when she won a special election to succeed Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in the Charleston church shooting…
1940–2021
Margie Evans (born Marjorie Ann Johnson; July 17, 1939 – March 19, 2021) was an American blues and gospel singer and songwriter. She started recording in the late 1960s and continued to record for five decades. She secured two hit singles on the US…
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Margo Lomax Davidson (born September 27, 1962) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 164th Legislative District from 2011 until her resignation on July 22, 2021 due to criminal charges. The district…
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…
1921–2009
Marguerite P. Justice (July 1921 – 17 September 2009) was the second woman, and the first black woman, to serve as a police commissioner in the United States.
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 Araújo Kahn (née Araújo; born August 20, 1964) is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Connecticut…
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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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María Fernanda Silva (born 20 December 1965) is an Argentine career diplomat, and the former ambassador of Argentina to the Holy See. She is the first woman to hold the ambassadorship to the Holy See, as well as the first Afro-Argentine to lead an…
1981–
Maria Elaine Hadden is an American politician and community activist from Chicago. She is a member of the Chicago City Council, serving as alderperson for the city's 49th ward. She won election to that office after defeating 28-year incumbent Joe Moore in…
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María Isabel Urrutia Ocoró (born 25 March 1965) is a Colombian politician and former weightlifter and athlete. She won the first ever gold medal for Colombia at the Summer Olympic Games.
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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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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…
1864–1946
Maria Coles Perkins Lawton (April 30, 1864 – 1946) was a notable figure in the national women’s club movement of the early 20th century. She was the president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs from 1916 to 1926.
April 26, 2018
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.9.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews. In this oral history interview, Maria Varela discusses the Poor People’s Campaign and her photography of the…
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