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Mathew McFarlan Lewey (December 1848 – August 12, 1935), was an American newspaper editor and publisher, postmaster, lawyer, politician, and justice of the peace in Florida. He also served as an officer in the Union Army, and as a militia officer. Lewey,…
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Matthew Oliver Ricketts (April 3, 1858 – January 3, 1917) was an American politician and physician. He was the first African-American member of the Nebraska Legislature, where he served two terms in the Nebraska House of Representatives (the lower house of…
1816–
Matthew T. Newsom, sometimes spelled Newsome, was an American justice of the peace and state legislator in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He represented Claiborne County at the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and from 1870 to 1871 in…
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Matthew Washington Bullock (September 11, 1881 – December 17, 1972) was an American lawyer, politician and human rights activist.
2022
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview with Mrs. Mattie Payne Morrison Holmes. It consists of a single MOV file (.mov). The interview was captured at her home in Dublin, Virginia, on May 26, 2022, as part of the NMAAHC Collection Donor Oral History Collection. Ms.…
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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…
1925–2019
Maude Lerita Williams Ballou (September 13, 1925 – August 26, 2019) was an American civil rights activist. She and her husband were personal friends of Martin Luther King Jr. and she worked as King's secretary between 1955 and 1960.
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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…
1874–1955
Maude Trotter Steward (1874–1955) was the assistant editor of the Boston Guardian, a civil rights newspaper in Boston.
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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…
1944–1983
Bishop led the 1979 New Jewel Movement revolution and headed Grenada's government, pursuing social programs before his 1983 overthrow and execution.
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Maurice Antonia Jones (born September 14, 1964) is the former CEO of OneTen, a coalition of companies dedicated to creating one million jobs for African Americans by the end of the 2020s. Prior to OneTen, he was president and CEO of the Local Initiatives…
1918–2012
Maurice J. Moyer (August 8, 1918 – March 6, 2012) was an African-American Christian minister from Delaware and a civil rights advocate who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. In 1955, he started Delaware's first black Presbyterian church.
1942–2022
Mavis Merlina Stephenson Best, née Clarke, MBE (11 July 1939 – 14 November 2022) was a grassroots social activist who worked for the civil rights of Black people in the UK. She led a successful campaign to overturn the so-called Sus law but was also active…
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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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Muhammad Ahmad (born Maxwell Curtis Stanford Jr. on 31 July 1941), also known as Max Stanford, is an American civil rights activist. He was a cofounder and the national chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Marxist–Leninist, black power…
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Max Yergan (July 19, 1892 – April 11, 1975) was an American activist notable for being a Baptist missionary for the YMCA, then a Communist working with Paul Robeson, and finally a staunch anti-Communist who complimented the government of apartheid-era…
Biography
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…
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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Maxwell Alejandro Frost (born January 17, 1997) is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 10th congressional district since 2023. Previously, he was the national organizing director for March for Our Lives. He…
1972; printed 2021
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white archival print of Maya Angelou and Cecil Williams standing side-by-side with arms around each other at Glide Memorial Church. Angelou wears a long-sleeve shirt and skirt and holds papers in her right hand; Williams wears a turtleneck and…
Biography
Maya-Camille Broussard is an American chef, author, and restaurant owner. She is the owner of Justice of the Pies in Chicago, Illinois, and was a 2022 finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Baker. Broussard is a featured pastry chef…
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