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Michael Wilson London Sr. (born October 9, 1960) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach of William & Mary Tribe football at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is a former defensive back and associate…
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Michael Anthony Madden (born January 13, 1958) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 1986 for the Houston Astros. Madden played college ball at University of Northern Colorado. In 71…
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Michael Christopher Minter (born January 15, 1974) is an American college football coach and former player. He is a defensive analyst for Western Michigan University, a position he has held since 2024. He is a former head football coach at Campbell…
1958–
Michael Lee Patterson (born January 26, 1958) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. Patterson played for the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees in 1981 and 1982. He batted left and threw right-handed. He was signed by the…
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Michael Jerome Reed (born August 16, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He is the assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and cornerbacks coach at Clemson University. He previously served as an assistant coach at North Carolina…
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Michael Singletary (born October 9, 1958), nicknamed "Samurai Mike", is an American former professional football player and coach. He played as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the…
1957–
James Michael White (born August 11, 1957) is an American college football coach and former professional player. He served as head football coach at Albany State University (ASU) in Albany, Georgia from 2000 to 2014 and Benedict College in Columbia, South…
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William Michael Coleman (born July 8, 1992), professionally known as Mike Zombie, is an American record producer and rapper from Willingboro Township, New Jersey, where he attended Willingboro High School. Since 2012, he has been an in-house producer for…
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Miki Turner is a professor and photojournalist, and the first regularly-featured African-American female sports columnist at a major metropolitan daily newspaper.
1937–
Valeria “Mikki” Ferrill (born 1937) is an American photographer. Ferrill was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1937. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Mikyla Grant-Mentis (born July 15, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Seattle Torrent of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She is the all-time leading scorer of the Merrimack Warriors women's ice hockey team and made…
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Milan "Mimi" Bolden-Morris is a former basketball player for the Boston College Eagles and Georgetown Hoyas, and a former graduate assistant football coach for the Michigan Wolverines.
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Mildred Barnes Griggs (nee Barnes; March 11, 1942 – July 28, 2025) was an American academic. She had a long career at the University of Illinois College of Education at which she was the first Black dean.
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Mildred Bryant Jones (16 November 1887 – 15 February 1966) was an African American musician and teacher, an officer of the National Association of Negro Musicians, and a friend of W. E. B. Du Bois, who was said to have had 'a special passion and…
1938–2024
Mildred Joyce Coleman Crump (November 3, 1938 – December 1, 2024) was an American politician who served on the Municipal Council of Newark, New Jersey from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2021 and is the first Black woman to have served on the city's…
1900–1990
Mildred Davenport (November 12, 1900 - 1990) was an African-American Broadway performer and dance teacher. She was the first African-American woman to appear with the Boston Pops orchestra.
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Mildred Eulalia Gibbs (December 25, 1850 – October 25, 1935) was an American educator, one of the earliest African-American women to earn a physician's degree from an American medical school, and also one of the first to obtain a doctorate from an American…
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Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010) was an American physician and anti-abortion activist. The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first…
1906–2004
Mildred Katharine Ellis (1906–2004) was a pianist, music educator, composer, and musicologist. In 1947, Ellis organized the Negro Music Festival, which was the first music festival in Johnson City, Tennessee to feature concert music written exclusively by…
1933–2004
Mildred "Millie" Louise McDaniel-Singleton (née McDaniel, November 4, 1933 – September 30, 2004) was an American athlete, who competed mainly in the women's high jump event during her career. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she attended David T. Howard High…
1920–2017
Nancy Mildred Nilon (July 26, 1920 – September 30, 2017) was the University of Colorado Boulder (CU)’s first African American librarian. CU created a scholarship in honor of her and her husband, Charles, who was CU's first African American faculty member.
March 1, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.59.1a, 2011.174.59.1b, 2011.174.59.1c, 2011.174.59.1d, and 2011.174.59.1e. Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in…
1941–
Miles Aiken (born December 27, 1941) is an American former professional basketball player, coach of the British Olympic basketball team, and sportscaster of basketball and American football. He was a center in college for St. Bonaventure University in the…
1988–
Miles Benjamin (born 11 May 1988 in Solihull, West Midlands, England) is a retired rugby union player who played at Wing for the Leicester Tigers & the Worcester Warriors in the English Aviva Premiership. He also played several other sports in his youth,…
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