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Nellie Blythe Nicholson Taylor (July 22, 1888 – December 20, 1965) was an African-American suffragist and educator. Nicholson was a clubwoman, co-founding a local Delaware affiliate, the Women's College Club of Delaware, with Sadie L. Jones. She was a…
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Nellie F. Griswold Francis (November 7, 1874 – December 13, 1969) was an African-American suffragist, civic leader, and civil rights activist. Francis founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group that helped win women…
1905–2002
Nellie Stone Johnson (December 17, 1905 – April 2, 2002) was an American civil rights activist and union organizer. She was the first African-American elected official in Minneapolis and shaped Minnesota politics for 70 years. Johnson helped form the…
1925–2012
Nellie Constance Yarborough (June 18, 1925 – December 8, 2012) was an African American Pentecostal bishop, pastor, and community activist based in Boston, Massachusetts. As the first female bishop of the Mt. Calvary Holy Church, she became a figure in both…
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Nelson B. Bartram (January 7, 1832 - December 25, 1886) was a teacher, official, and colonel in the U.S. Army who commanded United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The Library of Congress has a glass negative photograph of him.
1917–1974
Nelson "Jack" Edwards (1917–1974) was Vice President of the UAW (United Auto Workers), and a founder of CBTU, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. Nelson Edwards was born in 1917 on a farm in Lowndes County, Alabama. In 1937 he moved to Detroit and…
April 7, 2018
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview with Mr. Nelson Malden. It consists of two MOV files (.mov), one unedited (2023.5.1.1) and one edited (2023.5.1.2). The interview was captured in the Solomon Brown VIP Suite of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American…
1923–2015
Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author. Peery spent over 60 years in the revolutionary movement, and was active in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute…
Biography
Nelson Walker (c. 1827 - July 7, 1875) was a community leader in Tennessee and Justice of the Peace. He was born enslaved, worked as a barber, purchased freedom for himself, his wife, and their four children, and became a wealthy lawyer, judge and bank…
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Neon dos Afonso Cunha (Belo Horizonte, January 24, 1970), better known as Neon Cunha, is a Brazilian politician and activist for Black and LGBTQ rights. She became notable for being the first transgender person in Brazil to rectify her documents without…
1946–2024
Nerene Virgin (December 27, 1946 – January 15, 2024) was a Canadian journalist, actor, educator, author, and television host, best known for her role on the children's television series Today's Special.
1980–
Néria Lúcio Buzatto (born January 13, 1980, in Monte Santo de Minas) is a lawyer and politician of Brazil. She is affiliated with the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) (PT). She was a councilor in Patrocinio Paulista, she served for 2 terms and is…
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Neta C. Crawford ( NEE-tuh; born 1961) is an American political scientist. She is Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the University of Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. Crawford previously served as professor…
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José de Paula Neto (born 11 July 1970), better known by his artistic name Netinho de Paula, is a Brazilian presenter, singer, composer, actor, and politician. During the course of his musical career, he grew in popularity starting in the 1990s for his work…
1861–1938
Nettie Langston Napier (born Nettie DeElla Langston) was an African-American activist for the rights of women of color during the early part of the 20th century. She lived in Nashville, Tennessee.
1971–
Neva Walker (born December 14, 1971) is an American politician who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from district 61B from 2001 to 2009. Walker was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Minnesota Legislature.
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover edition of New England in Color: a Collection of Color Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain and Stewart Beach. The paperboard-bound hardcover has an adhesive binding. The dust jacket features a color photograph of an idyllic rural scene. Three…
1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA broadside of the New England Loyal Publication Society, consisting of a single sheet of white wove rag paper with printed black ink on one side only. The top right corner has undergone a prior repair.The header across the top reads [No. 147 / NEW ENGLAND…
August 17, 1976
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pamphlet titled [New Forms of Racism] with the text of a speech by Jarvis Tyner, Communist candidate for Vice President. The front cover has white text on a blue background. The interior contains fifteen pages of white paper with blue ink on it. The…
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG1986 State of New Jersey Senate Resolution. The document inducts six individuals into the Burlington County Track and Field Hall of Fame including Carl Lewis and his father (Bill Lewis). Lewis's mother Evelyn and brother William "Mackie" Lewis are also…
March 1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIssue #27 report on the trial of twenty-one Black Panthers with illustrated cover. Transcription of cover reads, "The New York 21 — 19 men and 2 women of the Black Panther Party were arrested in a pre-dawn raid on April 2, 1969 and indicted on charges of…
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Newell Houston Ensley (August 23, 1852 – May 23, 1888) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He was a professor at Shaw University, Howard University, and Alcorn University.
August 30, 1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA newspaper clipping announcing the beginning of the Citizen Education Project taped to a sheet of white paper with “Citizenship Education Project: First Phase" typewritten at the top of the page. The word "newsitems" is typewritten inside a square box in…
September 27, 1956
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis brief newspaper clipping, published by the San Francisco Independent, announces the opening of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women's headquarters at 1914 Fillmore St. in San Francisco. Multiple phases in the article are…
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