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Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, February 16, 1874 – February 13 or 14, 1936) was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. She was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of famed…
1880–1958
Maude E. Craig Sampson Williams (February 1880 – March 13, 1958) was an American suffragist, teacher, civil rights leader, and community activist in El Paso, Texas. In June 1918, she formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League and…
1960–2008
Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008) was a Scottish contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer, educator, feminist, cultural historian, and curator of Ghanaian heritage. She began her career as a writer and poet, becoming a visual artist…
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Maude Brockway (February 28, 1876 – October 24, 1959) was an American teacher, milliner, and activist. She was born in Arkansas in 1876 and moved to Indian Territory after completing her education at Arkansas Baptist College. Initially, she worked as a…
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Maudelle Tanner Bousfield (née Brown; June 1, 1885 – October 14, 1971) was an American educator. Bousfield was the first African–American woman to graduate from the University of Illinois, and the first African–American school principal within the Chicago…
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Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941), previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of…
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Maurice Brian Foley (born March 28, 1960) is a senior judge of the United States Tax Court. Foley received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law and a Master of Laws in taxation from Georgetown…
1976–
Maurice T. Drayton (born October 5, 1976) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of The Citadel Bulldogs. He has previously coached the Charleston Swamp Foxes, Seinajoki Crocodiles, Goose Creek High School, South…
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Maurice Allen Flowers (born January 1, 1969) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Johnson C. Smith University, a position he has held since 2022. He also was the head coach for the Fort Valley State Wildcats football…
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Maurice Christopher Jones-Drew (born March 23, 1985), often called "MJD", is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins,…
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Maurice Joseph (born August 26, 1985) is a Canadian former basketball player and coach, currently an assistant coach at Richmond. He is the former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team.
1984–
Maurice M. Linguist (born April 1, 1984) is an American football coach. He is the co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach for the University of Alabama, a position he has held since 2024. He was the head coach for the University at Buffalo from…
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Maurice "Luke" Lucas (February 18, 1952 – October 31, 2010) was an American professional basketball player who played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA…
1978–
Dr. Mautra Staley Jones (born 1978) is an American higher education administrator serving as the 11th president of Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC). When she took office in March 2022, she became both the first woman and the first person of color to…
1943–
Mavis Claytor-Ford (born 1943) was the first black woman admitted to the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1968 and the first African American to receive a bachelor's degree from the school in 1970. She became…
1953–
Mavis Laing (born December 5, 1953) is an American former track and field sprinter and pentathlete. Her highest level honour was a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games, where she anchored the American women's 4 × 400 meters relay team to victory,…
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MaVynee Betsch, christened Marvyne Elisabeth Betsch (January 13, 1935 – September 5, 2005), was an American environmentalist and an activist. She was better known as The Beach Lady, because she spent the better part of her adult life educating the public…
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Jesse Max Barber (July 5, 1878 – September 20, 1949) was an African-American journalist, teacher and dentist.
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Maximilian Davis (born 1994 or 1995) is a British fashion designer who has been the creative director of Ferragamo since March 2022. Born in Manchester to a Trinidadian-Jamaican family, Davis founded his own label, Maximilian, in 2020, after graduating…
Biography
Maxine Deloris Jones is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Florida State University. Jones co-authored a book on African American history in Florida and another on Talladega College.
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Maxine Leeds Craig is an American professor, working in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis. Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't…
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Maxine Buie Mimms (March 4, 1928 – October 8, 2024) was an American educator and founder of the Tacoma Campus of Evergreen State College in Tacoma, Washington. Mimms was a friend of Maya Angelou and Rev. Dr.
1929–2013
Maxine (Atkins) Smith (October 31, 1929 — April 26, 2013) born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was an academic, civil rights activist, and school board official. Smith's leadership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…
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May Edward Chinn (April 15, 1896 – December 1, 1980) was an American physician. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, now NYU School of Medicine, and the first African-American woman to intern at…
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