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Marva Johnson is an American business executive and education policy official who was appointed president of Florida A&M University in May 2025. She previously served as chair of the Florida Board of Education from 2015 to 2017 and held roles in the cable…
1947–2026
Marvalene Hughes (1937 – January 3, 2026) was an American educator, administrator and writer. She served as the president of Dillard University from 2005 to 2011. From 1994 to 2005, she was the president of California State University, Stanislaus where she…
1940–
Marvin Dunn (born June 27, 1940) is an American historian, psychology professor emeritus, author, and filmmaker. He has written about the history of African Americans in South Florida. He lives in Miami, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the city in 1985.
1954–
Marvin Wayne Harvey (born May 12, 1954) is an American basketball shooting instructor, former college player and coach, who currently owns and runs the trademarked Shot Lab™ in Tampa, Florida and the Marvin Harvey Basketball School of Excellence. He has…
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Marvin Eugene Menzies (born October 15, 1961) is an American college basketball coach. He was most recently the men's head coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 2022 to 2026. Previously, he was the head coach for New Mexico State, and UNLV.
1944–
Marvin Bailey Scott (born March 10, 1944) is an American politician and university professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is nationally known for his involvement in school desegregation cases, figuring in five federal desegregation…
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Marvin Anthony Sordell (born 17 February 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Southern League Premier Division South club Uxbridge. Sordell started his career with Fulham prior to joining Watford for a two-year scholarship in 2007. He…
1873–1941
Mary A. Bell (July 2, 1873 – September 20, 1941) was a self-taught African-American artist and illustrator. She produced over 150 known works featuring mostly women of all classes and races in their daily lives. She was little known during her life, but…
Biography
Mary Ann Prout (February 14, 1800 or 1801 – 1884) was an African-American educator and founder of the Black fraternal society, Independent Order of St. Luke. Prout died in Baltimore around 1884.
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Shadd Cary founded The Provincial Freeman in Canada West, becoming the first Black woman newspaper publisher in North America. She championed education, self-reliance and abolition.
Dates not recorded
Mary Ann Whipple-Lue is the former mayor of Gordon, Georgia. Taking office in 2014, she served as the first Black and Female for one term as mayor, until 2017. Her tenure as the city's first black mayor was plagued with controversy. Allegedly, "She…
1954–
Mary Anne Adams, MSW, (born September 25, 1954) is an African American lesbian activist, social worker, and public health researcher who has focused on the health disparities within the lesbian and Black community. She also works at Georgia State…
1950–
Mary Anne Veronica Chambers, (born September 8, 1950) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada, and was named Chancellor of the University of Guelph in September 2022. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 until 2007, and…
1874–1922
Mary Annette Anderson (July 27, 1874 – May 2, 1922) was an American professor of grammar and history and the first African-American woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Mary Cordelia Montgomery Booze (née Mary Cordelia Montgomery; March 1878 – May 17, 1955) was an American political organizer, teacher, businessperson, and activist. The daughter of former slaves, she was one of the first African-American women to sit on…
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Mary Elizabeth Cary Burrell (August 1865 – ) was an American educator and businessperson. She is known for being a school teacher and for working for causes like women's suffrage.
1894–1962
Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson (1894–1962) was an American opera singer and voice teacher. She was the founding director of the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC). In 1961, Dawson was appointed to the National Music Committee by President John F. Kennedy.
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Mary Carter Smith (1919 – April 24, 2007) was a noted American educator who helped revive storytelling as an educational tool. She graduated from Coppin State University and was a teacher in the Baltimore City Public School system for thirty-one years.…
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Mary Dudley (born Mary Elizabeth Goode; April 8, 1912 – March 17, 1964), known as Mary Dee, was an American disc jockey who is widely considered the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States. She grew up in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and…
1936–2019
Mary Doakes (May 22, 1936 – May 1, 2019) was an African-American school teacher who became the first black administrator of a school in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Biography
Mary Dora Coghill (c. 1869 - April 9, 1957) was an American teacher, vice principal, principal, and civic leader in early twentieth-century New Orleans. She was a member of numerous civic and relief organizations and a leader in education reform.
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Mary Elizabeth Ashe Lee (12 January 1851 – 22 January 1932) was an African-American writer, educator, and churchwoman.
Born 1820
Mary Elizabeth (née Miles) Bibb (1820–1877 or the early 1880s) was an American-born educator and abolitionist leader. She is considered by some to be the first female Black journalist in Canada. She was a teacher and abolitionist in the United States,…
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Mary Ellen Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky. Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877.
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