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Loading image…1890–1976
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator and pastor. He served as the first African-American president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960. Johnson has been considered one of the three leading…
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…
1976–
Morgan Campbell (born 1976) is a Canadian sports journalist and memorist. He is most noted for his 2024 book My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for English Prose in…
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Morgan London Latta (April 1853 – April 13, 1937) was an African American educator who operated a fraudulent scheme to solicit and misappropriate funds. He founded Latta University in Raleigh, North Carolina and used it to exploit the goodwill of Northern…
1922-1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Morgan State College”.
1943–
Morgan M. Watson (born November 25, 1943) is an American engineer and Professor of Engineering at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1963, he became part of the first cohort of African American engineers to work at NASA in the Deep South,…
1902–1979
Morris Atkinson Blackburn (1902–1979) was a printmaker, muralist, and teacher. He is considered to be a pioneer of silkscreen printing. Blackburn's work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the…
1994-2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Morris High School (1 of 2)”.
1946-2016
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Morris High School (2 of 2)”.
1970–
Morris Lolar (born December 18, 1970) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. He is the cornerbacks coach for Southeast Missouri State University, a position he has held since 2024. Lolar served as the head football coach at Bethel…
1952–2017
Morris Nettles (January 26, 1952 – January 24, 2017) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played two seasons with the California Angels in the mid-1970s. Nettles was drafted by the Angels in the second round of the 1970 Major League…
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Morris DeRhon Robinson (born March 18, 1969) is an American bass opera singer and former All-American college football player who has performed both with the Metropolitan Opera and at Carnegie Hall in New York City, at the Seattle Opera, at La Scala in…
Dates not recorded
Morty Buckles (born 1971 or 1972) is an American racing driver. An African American, Buckles was a member of NASCAR's first Drive for Diversity class after cutting his teeth at the regional racing level. In 2006, Buckles planned to race in the ARCA Racing…
1956–2022
Mose Lee Rison Jr. (July 22, 1956 – September 7, 2022) was an American football player and coach He was he served as the head football coach at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, from 2007 to 2010, compiling a record of 16–22. A…
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Moses Aaron Hopkins (December 25, 1846 – August 7, 1886) was an American clergyman and educator who served as United States minister (ambassador) to Liberia in 1885–1886. He was the first formerly enslaved person to serve the United States in that…
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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…
1917–1989
Moss Hyles Kendrix (March 8, 1917 – January 4, 1989) was a pioneer in the modern field of public relations. Of his various public relations and advertising campaigns, Kendrix is best known for his Coca-Cola company advertising and for his work to educate…
1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA trophy awarded to Carl Lewis featuring a male figure on top of a wooden base. The figure is gold toned and in a running pose and sits on a wooden cube with an inscribed plaque attached to its front. The black plaque is etched with gold type. It is not…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mother figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With her rubber arms and hands raised close to her face, the mother puppet wears a square patterned mauve dress with a white collar. She has dark brown pony-tied hair, brown eyes, and pink lips. The…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mother figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With her arms raised close to her face, the mother puppet wears a bright blue cardigan and yellow belted dress. She has auburn hair, red lips, and on the bottom back of her dress the maker's mark:…
1953–
Jo Anne Hart (born December 29, 1953), better known by her stage name Mother Love, is an American presenter, author, actress, and comedian. Hart was born one of six siblings and grew up in a Cleveland, Ohio housing project. Her first job was as a school…
September 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Mountainscape, looking West from the University Roma, near Roma, Lesotho” (Color slides).
2009-2015
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMounted photographic cutout of a Bayou Classic bus. The cutout depicts a green tour bus in a parking lot. The bus is at a diagonal angle between white lines painted on pavement. The side of the bus features two large images of a Southern University…
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Moya Bailey is an African-American feminist scholar, writer, and activist. She is noted for coining the term misogynoir, which denotes what Bailey describes as the unique combination of misogyny and anti-black racism experienced by black women. Bailey is a…
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