Louise Alone Thompson Patterson
American activist Louise Alone Thompson Patterson (1901-1999) participated in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, was a close friend of some of its...
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
William Augustus Hinton
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...
A WWI–Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops
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A French Directive Citation Information: ”A French Directive,” The Crisis, XVIII (May 1919), p. 16-18. The following directive was published without comment in The Crisis...
Mabel Byrd
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Mabel Byrd, a trailblazing figure in the history of education, made significant strides as the first African American student to enroll at the University of...
Vanessa Northington Gamble
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., is a University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University. She is the first woman and first African American...
John Henryism
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The Hidden Health Costs of Relentless Determination In 1983, Sherman James and colleagues introduced a psychological concept known as John Henryism (JH), named after the...
Sherman James
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Sherman A. James, an African American epidemiologist and health researcher, is renowned for his “John Henryism” hypothesis, which links premature mortality among African Americans to...
Frederick Stephen Humphries
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Frederick Stephen Humphries served as president of two historically black colleges – Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, between 1974 and 1985, and Florida A&M...
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
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Research physicist and physics professor Sekazi K. Mtingwa was born on October 20, 1949, in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his B.S. degrees in physics and...