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circa 1920s - circa 1930s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Miner Teachers College Patch and Tassle”.
1946–
Minion Kenneth Chauncey Morrison (born 1946) is an American political scientist. He is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Morrison studies comparative politics and American politics, and has…
1969–
Malcolm Azania (born 1969), better known by his pen name Minister Faust, is a Kenyan-Canadian novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, teacher, and science fiction writer. He has also written for video games, including Mass Effect 2, Gift of the Yeti, and…
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Minister of Education, Yogo Bagayogo, Bamako, Mali” (Negatives (photographic)).
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Minister of Education, Yogo Bagayogo, with his family, Bamako, Mali” (Negatives (photographic)).
1915–1993
Minnie Gentry (born Minnie Lee Watson, December 2, 1915 – May 11, 1993) was an American actress. Gentry was born Minnie Lee Watson in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Mincie and Taylor Watson. Her family moved to Cleveland during her childhood, where she…
1860–1937
Minnie Lou Crosthwaite (née Scott; August 20, 1860 – January 13, 1937) was an American teacher who became the first African-American woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system. She later became an instructor and then registrar…
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Minnie M. (Geddings) Cox (1869–1933) was an American teacher who was appointed the first black postmaster in Mississippi, following closely behind Anna M. Dumas, who was appointed to the same position in 1872 in Covington, Louisiana. Though she made…
April 1872
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA small brown leather minute book with handwritten minutes from the Fayette Free School, April 1872, recorded by J.P. Morrison, Board Clerk. Content includes reminder to enumerate children, arrangements for school for children of color in church basement,…
Biography
Mira Lowe is an American journalist and dean of the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University. She served as the first woman editor-in-chief of Jet, a weekly digital magazine focused on African-American culture.
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Mireille Métellus is a Haitian Canadian actress based in Montreal, Quebec, who was inducted into the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2025. Born in Port-au-Prince, she moved to Canada in the late 1960s with her family, becoming a close friend…
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Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (September 16, 1861 – 1947) was an American schoolteacher and inventor. In 1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent.
1934–2021
Miriam DeCosta-Willis (November 1, 1934 – January 7, 2021) was an American educator, writer, and civil rights activist. The first African-American faculty member at Memphis State University, having previously been denied admission to the school as a…
1951–2020
Miriam Jiménez Román (June 11, 1951 – August 6, 2020) was a Puerto Rican scholar, activist, and author on Afro-Latino culture, whose work is described as "without a doubt ... [making] an enormous contribution to the theoretical discussion surrounding…
1905–2003
Miriam Matthews (August 6, 1905 – June 23, 2003) was an American librarian, advocate for intellectual freedom, historian, and art collector. In 1927, Matthews became the first credentialed African American librarian to be hired by the Los Angeles Public…
1937–2018
Miriam Rossi (born Miriam Frances Senhouse) (31 January 1937 – 11 July 2018) was emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, and a pediatrician in the division of Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She was Associate…
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Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, whose debut feature film This House (Cette maison) was released in 2022. The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award, and was…
1865–71
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous records on claims and copies of school reports, 1865–71, are arranged by type of record. The claims agent also acted as district superintendent of schools.
Oct. 1866–July 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous records relating to construction of school buildings, October 1866–July 1868, are arranged by town. The series consists of school plans, contracts, and bills for construction or repair of buildings.
1865-68
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Miscellaneous Records”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous records cover the period January 1867 and February 1869. This series includes one–third of a semiannual school report of the state superintendent (January 1867), and one report of schools, teachers, and buildings (February 1869).
1866–67
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Miscellaneous Reports Relating to Schools”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous reports relating to schools, 1866–67, are arranged by type of report. Included are school reports of teachers and district superintendents, school reports of receipts and expenditures, and reports of school property.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound miscellaneous reports relating to schools, 1866–68, are arranged by type of report. Included are monthly school reports of the district superintendent, monthly school reports of receipts and expenditures, and reports of school property.
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