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Monique Holsey-Hyman (born November 10, 1965) is an American social worker, professor, and politician. Prior to her work in politics and academia, Holsey-Hyman worked as a social worker in New York City. She was a caseworker for the New York City Human…
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Monique Owens (born February 21, 1984) is an American politician and convicted criminal who served as the mayor of Eastpointe, Michigan from 2019 to 2023. She previously served on the Eastpointe City Council from 2017 to 2019 and was the first…
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Monique Haughton Worrell is a prosecutor and Democratic politician who has served as the state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida since January 2021. On August 9, 2023 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Worrell from her office…
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Monroe Alpheus Majors (October 12, 1864 – December 10, 1960) was an American physician, writer and civil rights activist in Texas and Los Angeles. He was one of the first black physicians in the American southwest and established a medical association for…
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Monroe Anderson III (born April 6, 1947) is an American journalist, editor, and commentator who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the press secretary of Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer. Anderson has held positions in magazines,…
Biography
Monroe Bell (1826 or 1828/9 - 1900) was a laborer and state legislator who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1873.
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Monroe E. Hawkins was a state legislator in Arkansas. He attended the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention and served in the Arkansas House of Representatives. A Republican, he represented Lafayette County, Arkansas. He served in the House from 1868 to…
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Monroe Washington Gooden (May 10, 1848 – January 19, 1915) was a politician in Tennessee. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served in the Tennessee General Assembly as a Democrat, representing Fayette County from 1887 until 1889.
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Monte Hodges (born November 1, 1971) is an American politician, who served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives representing District 55 from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a candidate for U.S. congress in Arkansas's…
2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCongressional gold medal in honor of Montford Point Marines has a relief on its obverse featuring three Marines on the left and three in the forefront with rifles. Text following apex of the medal's arc reads [MONTFORD POINT MARINES / 1942-1949]. On verso…
2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts the Montgomery bus boycott with a small procession of Black people shown walking in the foreground while white passengers on a…
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Camae Ayewa, (born November 19, 1981) better known by her stage name Moor Mother, is an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips, and…
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Moranda Smith was a black labor organizer and unionist who served as the first regional director of Winston-Salem, North Carolina's Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America (FTA-CIO) in the 1930 and 1940s.
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis book belonged to General Colin Powell. It is inscribed by the author, Harold Ford Jr., who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 9th district from 1997 to 2007. A signed, hardcover first edition of More Davids Than…
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Morgan Harper (born July 1, 1983) is an American attorney, community organizer, and political candidate. After working as a senior advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in 2020 she campaigned against incumbent Joyce Beatty to represent…
[ca. 1920]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGTranslated caption reads: ''MOROCCO - TANGIER- Palace of Justice''. In the foreground, man with donkey, in the right hand side, palace of justice. Manuscript message in Portuguese on verso.
1942–2011
Mose Oliver Jefferson (August 28, 1942 – May 12, 2011) was a member of the New Orleans family that includes his younger brother, former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson. On 21 August 2009, Mose Jefferson was convicted on four felony counts of bribery.
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Moses Dickson (1824–1901) was an abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of the Knights of Liberty, an anti-slavery organization that planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped Black-American enslaved people to freedom through the…
1786–1843
Moses Grandy (c. 1786 – unknown) was an African-American author, abolitionist, and, for more than the first four decades of his life, an enslaved person. At eight years of age, he became the property of his white playmate, James Grandy, and two years…
1894–2006
Moses Hardy (January 6, 1894 – December 7, 2006) was, at age 112, the last surviving African-American veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of the war in general. The son of former slaves, Hardy lived a religious and…
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Moses Garrison Hepburn Jr. (c. 1832 – December 1, 1897) was an American politician, innkeeper, and businessman elected as the first African American town councilor of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1882.
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Moses Martin was an American farmer, A.M.E. Church organizer, county commissioner, elections commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina. He represented Fairfield County, South Carolina in the South Carolina Senate. He helped found White Hall…
1927–
Moses J. Newson (born February 5, 1927) is an American journalist for the Baltimore Afro-American in Baltimore, Maryland who reported on the Civil Rights Movement, most notably the Freedom Rides.
1921–2009
Mary Ann Wright (July 11, 1921 – May 7, 2009), known as Mother Wright, was a humanitarian activist who lived and worked in Oakland, California and fed East Bay residents for almost 3 decades. She fed more than 450 people a day on a budget of $137,000 a…
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