Lorenzo Johnston Greene Papers 1680-1988 (bulk 1933-1972)

Kellogg, Peter Comstock, 1841-1905

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Romero, Patricia W.

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Jones, Lois Mailou

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d. June 9, 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122311085 African American woman artist, of Washington, D.C.; b. 1905. From the description of Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1943-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70949653 African American female visual artist, educator, scholar, and mentor; served as professor of art at the Howard Univ. College of Fine Arts from 1...

Brooks, Mary E., 1944-

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Dymally, Mervyn M. (Mervyn Malcolm), 1926-2012

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Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (May 12, 1926 – October 7, 2012) was an American politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly (1963–66) and the California State Senate (1967–75) as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–79) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–93). Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly (2003–08). Dymally was the first Trinidadian to serve California as State Senator and Lieutenant Governor. H...

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950

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Carter Godwin Woodson, educator and historian, was considered the Father of Black History. He was born December 19, 1875, New Canton, Virginia. He was an African-American historian, author, and journalist who, in 1915, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In 1926 he pioneered the concept of a "Negro History Week," which was later expanded into Black History Month. Woodson died at his home in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on April 3, 1950....

Parting Ways, the Museum of Afro-American Ethnohistory (Plymouth, Mass.)

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Goggin, Jacqueline Anne, 1953-

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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-

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Lawrence D. Reddick served as curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, 1939-1948. An African-American historian, Reddick was interested in the role of the black soldier in U.S. wars and published on this topic. Concerned that the role of black soldiers during World War II would not be portrayed accurately by the government, the mainstream or black press, Reddick initiated a campaign to document the experiences of blacks in the military using their first hand accounts. He placed a...

Jackson, Luther Porter, 1892-1950

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Eppse, Merl R. (Merl Raymond), 1893-

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African-American educator, historian, and business leader. From the description of Merl R. Eppse papers, 1927-1961. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 28453442 ...

Heermance, J. Noel

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Brimmer, Andrew F.

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Economist, academic and business leader Andrew F. Brimmer was born in Newellton, Louisiana, on September 13, 1926. The son of sharecroppers who had been driven off of the land by boll weevils, Brimmer attended local racially segregated elementary and high schools. Upon graduation, Brimmer moved to Bremerton, Washington, with an older sister and worked in a navy yard as an electrician's helper. In 1945, Brimmer was drafted into the Army, where he served until November 1946. After completing his m...

Jones, Lois Mailou

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Dunn, William L., 1919-

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Missouri Association for Social Welfare

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Wright, Marion Manola Thompson, 1904-1962

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Anderson, Marjorie E.

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Miller, M. Sammye

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Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

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Dean of African American historians, John Hope Franklin was born January 2, 1915 in Rentriesville, Oklahoma. His family relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma shortly after the Tulsa Disaster of 1921. Franklin's mother, Mollie was a teacher and his father, B.C. Franklin was an attorney who handled lawsuits precipitated by the famous Tulsa Race Riot. Graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1931, Franklin received an A.B. from Fisk University in 1935 and went on to attend Harvard University, whe...

Greene, Thomasina T. (Thomasina Talley), 1913-

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Wilson, Raleigh

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Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

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American Marxist author, lecturer, and apologist. From the guide to the Herbert Aptheker letter to Mrs. Doares, 1970, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Noted Marxist scholar Dr. Herbert Aptheker was born in New York City in 1915. His more than thirty published books include such titles as THE ERA OF McCARTHYISM (1957), THE WORLD OF C. WRIGHT MILLS (1960), THE URGENCY OF MARXIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE (1970), but he is best known for hi...

McAfee, Wilbur C.

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Florence, Charles W.

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Charles Florence and his wife Josephine were born in France and emigrated to the U.S. in the mid-19th century. In the 1880's Florence worked as a bookkeeper in Denver, Colo. According to the 1900 census, he and his wife were living at 2355 Franklin Street, Denver, Colo. and he listed his profession as landlord. From the description of Charles and Josephine Florence papers, 1881-1902 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 243712553 ...

Tynes, Harcourt A.

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Parsons, Edward Alexander, 1878-1962

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

Dreer, Herman, 1889-...

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Meier, August, 1923-....

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Pioneer Youth statement of purpose A noted scholar of African American history and civil rights activist, August Meier was born in Newark, N.J., on April 30, 1923. Raised in an intellectually demanding, politically-engaged family, Meier and his younger brother Paul were steeped in progressive, assimilationist ideals by their father, Frank, a chemist with the American Platinum Works and son of a German Socialist, and mother Clara, a public school teacher and principal wh...

Mehlinger, Louis R.

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Blue, Cecil A.

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Shepperson, George

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George Shepperson was born in Peterborough, England in 1922. After studying history and English at Cambridge University, he was seconded as an officer to the King's African Rifles during the Second World War. Serving alongside African soldiers in Burma, he became interested in examining how war and slavery forged the African Diaspora. While stationed in East Africa, he became interested in how African communities were incorporated into the British Empire. These experiences bolstered...

Jackson, Harvey H.

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Romero, Patricia W.

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Shulimson, Bert

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Robinson, William P., 1911-

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Kellogg, Peter

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Quarles, Benjamin

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Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc.

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Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris), 1891-1987

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First president of Central State College (1947-1965) and president of Wilberforce University (1942-1947); ); minister and elder, African Methodist Episcopal Church (1914-1937); and author. From the description of Charles Wesley papers, 1852-1965. (Central State University). WorldCat record id: 70970102 ...

Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.)

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Lincoln University was founded as Lincoln Institute by the white officers and black enlisted men of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored infantries of the Civil War who donated $6400 to help fund the school; opened Sept. 17, 1866 in Jefferson City, Mo., with a class of two and with Lt. Richard B. Foster, a white officer of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry, as principal; college department was added in 1887; Lincoln Institute formally became a state institution in 1879 with the deeding of the property to...

Strickland, Arvarh E.

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Jones, Harold J.

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Frank, James, 1930-

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Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956

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Sociologist, race relations expert, author, lecturer, teacher, and college administration; first African American president of Fisk University (1946-1956). From the description of Charles Spurgeon Johnson records, 1858-1956. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970119 First black president of Fisk University, elected Oct. 1946, inaugurated Nov. 1947; served until 1956; Head of Dept. of Social Science, Fisk University, 1928-1947; sociologist, race relations expert, author...

Logan, Rayford Whittingham, 1897-1982

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African American historian and educator; died 1982. From the description of Papers, 1925-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34576583 African-American historian, administrator, author, civil rights activist, and Howard University faculty member; d. 1982. From the description of Papers, ca. 1917-ca. 1980. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70939793 Educator, scholar, author, civil rights activist, and fraternity leader, of Washingto...

Institute to Facilitate Desegregation in the Kansas City, Mo., Public Schools

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Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy)

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Davis, Gerald L.

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Brooks, Mary E.

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Hartshorn, H. Hadley (Herbert Hadley), 1909-

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Klotzer, Charles L.

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McStallworth, Paul

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Jason, W. B.

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Bacote, Clarence Albert, 1906-

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Clarence Albert Bacote (1906-1981), African American educator and scholar, born in Kansas City, Missouri. From the description of Clarence Albert Bacote papers, 1932-1977. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477192 Clarence Albert Bacote (1906- ), professor at Atlanta University, active in black Atlanta politics in the 1940s, and headed the All-Citizens Registration Committee of 1946. From the description of ...

Fleming, John E. (John Emory), 1944-

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Museum director, curator and historian John Fleming was born on August 3, 1944 in Morganton, North Carolina. Fleming graduated from Olive Hill High School in 1962 and began attending Berea College that same year. In 1966, Fleming graduated from Berea College. He went on to attend Howard University and earned his Ph.D. degree in American history from there in 1974.After graduating from Berea College, Fleming served as an educational specialist on the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights in 1966. F...

Cromwell, Adelaide M.

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Boston University professor emeritus Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell was born on November 27, 1919, in Washington, D.C. In 1936, Cromwell graduated from Dunbar High School and in 1940, went on to earn an A.B. degree in sociology from Smith College. One year later, she earned a M.A. degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to earn a certificate in social casework from Bryn Mawr College. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard's Radcliffe College in 1946, she became th...

Risk, Richard E.

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Thomas, Charles W., 1926-1990

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Institute for Drop-Out Prevention and Teacher Orientation (Kansas City, Mo.)

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Greene, Lorenzo J. (Lorenzo Johnston), 1899-1988

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African American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist; d. 1988. From the description of Papers, 1680-1988 (bulk 1933-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77585806 African American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist. From the description of Lorenzo Johnston Greene papers, 1680-1988 (bulk 1933-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 498421132 Biographical Note ...

Missouri Commission on Human Rights

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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Missouri Advisory Committee

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Lee, Ulysses

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