J. Drew Lanham
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J. Drew Lanham

J. Drew Lanham is an avid birder, Master Teacher, and Certified Wildlife Biologist who teaches wildlife ecology at Clemson University.

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Tracy K. Smith
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Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and the U.S. poet laureate appointed to the 2017 and 2018 terms by the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.

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Carla Hayden
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Carla Hayden

In 2016, professional librarian Carla Hayden made history by becoming the first female and the first black American to serve as the Librarian of Congress.

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Miriam Jiménez Román
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Miriam Jiménez Román

Miriam Esther Jiménez Román was many things: a professor, archivist, curator, editor, author, and social theorist. She was also a pioneer of Afro-Latinidad studies.

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Jews and Black Schools
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Jews and Black Schools

When Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1933 and set Jewish Scholars in his sights, many American colleges and universities refused to employ them, but not historically black ones.

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Rosa L. Dixon
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Rosa L. Dixon

Rosa L. Dixon spent nearly a lifetime as an educator. She rose to become an influential civic leader and educational reformer in Virginia.

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Sarah J. Garnet
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Sarah J. Garnet

Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is noted as the first black female principal in the New York public school system. She was also the first black American female to found and lead a suffrage organization for black women.

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Edward Bouchet
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Edward Bouchet

Edward Alexander Bouchet became the first black American to be named a PhD physicist after completing his graduate studies and dissertation at Yale University.

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