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Brawner was president and officer of the Bluff City Medical Society for 15 years, helping the organization to survive through the 1960s after the number of African-American physicians practicing in Memphis fell from 40 in 1930 to 12 in 1960. She was the first female president of the society and she was also the first female president of the ...
Reggie White — NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL. Bobby Whitlock — musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominos. Snootie Wild — rapper. John Shelton Wilder — politician. Elliot Williams — NBA player. LaNell Williams — physicist and virologist. Louis Williams — NBA player.
Black Betty: Walter Mosley: July 31, 1994 Shadow of the Panther: Hugh Pearson: July 31, 1994 These Same Long Bones: Gwendolyn M. Parker: June 4, 1995 One by One From the Inside Out: Glenn C. Loury: November 19, 1995 The All American Skin Game: Stanley Crouch: May 16, 1996 How Stella Got Her Groove Back: Terry McMillan: June 2, 1996 Bad as I ...
June 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM. The historical significance attached to new University of Memphis athletic director Ed Scott is not lost on him. “I’ve been told I’m your first Black athletic ...
Mamie Odessa Hale was nurse and teacher of midwives in Arkansas. [91] Beatrix McCleary Hamburg in 1948 became the first African American woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine. [92] Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.
Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist.He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, with iconic images of the Montgomery bus boycott, Emmett Till, Memphis sanitation strike, Negro league baseball, and musicians including those related to Memphis blues and Memphis soul.
Southern Illinois University ( EdD) Willie Wilbert Herenton (born April 23, 1940) is an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee. He was elected as the first elected African-American Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. [1] He was elected to five consecutive terms and abruptly resigned the position mid-way through his fifth term in 2009.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [5] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [6] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [7] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...