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1980–
Marshall Leonard (born December 29, 1980, in El Paso, Texas) is an American soccer defender and midfielder, who last played for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Leonard is African American. He attended high school in Columbus, Georgia,…
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Marshall W. Taylor (July 1, 1846 – September 11, 1887) was a Methodist Episcopal minister and journalist in Kentucky. He is noted for his book, Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies published in 1882. He was also the first black editor of the…
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Marshall Warren (born April 20, 2001) is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Hamilton Hammers of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He…
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Marshawn Terrell Lynch (born April 22, 1986) is an American actor and former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nicknamed "Beast Mode", he spent the majority of his career with the Seattle…
1970–
Marta Dark McNeese is an American physicist and professor at Spelman College. She was the first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on laser interactions with biological…
1952–
Marta Moreno Vega (born 1942) is the founder of the Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). She led El Museo del Barrio, is one of the founders of the Association of Hispanic Arts, and founded the Network of Centers of Color and the…
1838–1889
Martha Bailey Briggs (March 31, 1838 – March 28, 1889) was an American educator who was born and educated in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she taught formerly enslaved men and women to read and write. In 1869, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she…
1863–1951
Martha E. Forrester (1863–1951) was an African-American civil rights activist. Forrester was born in Richmond, Virginia, and married Robert Forrester early in life; she worked as a public school teacher in Richmond for some years. After her husband's death…
Biography
Martha Grey, Countess of Stamford (née Martha Solomons; c. 1838 – 21 August 1916) was a South African-British aristocrat and school patron. She was born as the daughter of a freed slave and was referred to as “a lady of native Hottentot extraction” by the…
1902–1985
Martha Louise Morrow Foxx (October 9, 1902 – 1985) was an American educator who worked at the Piney Woods Country Life School campus of the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes for forty years, from 1929 to 1969.
1945–2022
Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody (born November 24, 1945 - November 12, 2022) was an American poet, and author of short stories and articles on literature and teaching. She was Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College…
March 18, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.80.1a, 2011.174.80.1b, 2011.174.80.1c, 2011.174.80.1d, 2011.174.80.1e, 2011.174.80.1f, and 2011.174.80.1g. Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and…
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Martha S. Jones is an American historian and legal scholar. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She studies the legal and cultural history of the United States, with a particular…
1916
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Martha Schofield Pioneer Negro Educator by Dr. Matilda A. Evans” (Books).
1916–2008
Martha Settle Putney (November 9, 1916 – December 11, 2008) was an American educator and historian who chronicled the roles of African Americans in the armed forces. After serving as one of the first black members of the Women's Army Corps during World War…
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Martin David Jenkins (September 4, 1904 – June 9, 1978) was an American educator and researcher known for his work challenging mainstream theories of African American race and intelligence.
1957–
Martin Glynn (born 1957) is a British poet, theatre director, cultural activist, and criminologist. As a poet Glynn is best known for his dub poetry performances.
1980–
Martin Jarmond (born November 22, 1979) is an American college athletics administrator. He served as the athletic director at Boston College from 2017 to 2020 and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2020 to 2026.
1931–2019
Martin Luther Kilson Jr. (February 14, 1931 – April 24, 2019) was an American political scientist. He was the first black academic to be appointed a full professor at Harvard University, where he was later the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from…
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Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights activist and philanthropist. The second child and eldest son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he served as the fourth president of the Southern…
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Martin R. Mayhew (born October 8, 1965) is an American former professional football executive and cornerback of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles prior to being selected by the Buffalo Bills in…
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Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1937) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success. Arroyo first rose to…
1962–
Martine Chartrand (born 1962) is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker, visual artist and teacher. She practices a paint-on-glass animation technique to create her films. Throughout Chartrand's career, she has been involved with numerous films and has made three…
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Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator. Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of…
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