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Adam William Herbert, Jr. (born December 1, 1943) is an American retired academic administrator. He served as president of the University of North Florida from 1989 to 1998, as chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1998 to 2001, and as…
1841–1870
Addie Brown (December 21, 1841 – January 11, 1870) was an American working-class free Black woman, who worked in various New England towns and wrote of her difficulties to earn a living. Her letters depict not only the racism and sexism faced by Northern…
1892–
Addie E. Dillard Hutto was an American educator. She was involved in several of the Pan African Congresses and was a member of Women's Clubs. She served as principal of Hutto School in Bainbridge, Georgia, for 52 years.
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Addisyn Jade Merrick (born March 4, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a right back for USL Super League club Carolina Ascent. She played college soccer for the Kansas Jayhawks. She has previously played for the North Carolina…
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Adeiyewunmi "Ade" Osinubi (born 1996) is an American physician, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is an emergency medicine Resident Physician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and she is the producer of Black Motherhood through the…
Biography
Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola (born July 20, 1970) is a Nigerian-American academic and nursing researcher at Calvin University.
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Adelaide Luvenia Sanford (born November 27, 1925) is an American activist administrator, public speaker and national advocate for African-centered education for students of African descent. She served on the Board of Regents of the University of the State…
1919–2019
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell (November 27, 1919 – June 8, 2019) was an American sociologist and professor emeritus at Boston University, where she co-founded the African Studies Center in 1959, and directed the graduate program in Afro-American studies from…
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Adelbert H. Jenkins is an African American clinical psychologist who is known for his humanistic approach to Black psychology at the start of the field in the early 1970s. Jenkins was also one of the 28 founding members of the National Association of Black…
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Adele Addison (born July 24, 1925) is an American lyric soprano who was a figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert. Her…
1938–
Adele Logan Alexander (born January 26, 1938) is an American professor and author. A history professor at George Washington University, she has written on her family history, gender, and social issues in African American communities.
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Adella Hunt Logan (February 10, 1863 – December 10, 1915) was an African-American writer, educator, administrator and suffragist. Born during the Civil War, she earned her teaching credentials at Atlanta University, an historically black college founded by…
ca. 1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph of a young woman, identified as "one of the classy 3 M.C.'s." She stands in the center of the image, visible from the shoulders up, against a light background. She wears a leather jacket with faux fur collar over a white button…
ca. 1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph portrait of a woman identified as "Shiela." Shiela is pictured from the shoulders up, her body facing the right side of the image and her face turned in 3/4 view to look directly at the camera. She is wearing a light colored…
1941–
Ademola Olugebefola (né Bedwick Lyola Thomas; born October 2, 1941) is an American multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, educator, musician, and businessperson from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is considered a founder within the Black Arts…
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Adena Clothilda Eugenie Minott (born about 1879 – April 13, 1955) was a Jamaican-born American educator, writer, editor and consultant. She was the only Black woman to be a fellow of the American Institute of Phrenology.
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Adeola Deborah Olubamiji (born April 3, 1985) is a Canadian technologist who specializes in metal and plastic additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing). In 2017, she became the first Black person to obtain a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the…
1977–
Adia Benton is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose research concerns how care is provided in humanitarian emergencies and development projects. Benton is currently an associate professor of anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern…
Biography
Adjoa Aiyetoro is a lawyer, an activist and the former executive director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (1993-1997). She was the chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) and…
1896–1966
Adolph Putnam "Ziggy" Hamblin (1896 – August 17, 1966) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. A native of Galesburg, Illinois, Hamblin attended Knox College in that city. He received 16 varsity letters at Knox, competing in…
1947–
Adolph Leonard Reed Jr. (born January 14, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School…
1899–1985
Adolphe Leslie de Griponne Barreaux, Jr. (Charleston, January 9, 1899 – New York City, October 23, 1985), professionally credited as Adolphe Barreaux, was an African-American writer, artist and publisher during the height of pulp magazines in the 1930s and…
1941–1992
Adolphus Ealey (February 22, 1941 – November 11, 1992) was an American artist, curator, educator, writer, and entrepreneur. He was African-American and a noted Black art authority, and he was the longtime curator of the Barnett–Aden Collection of Black art.
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Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III (born April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. He currently resides in Virginia Beach,…
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