James A Ford, archaeologist
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Henry Aaron Hill, chemist; 1940-1941 fellowship
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Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own ...
, painter; 1940-1942 fellowship
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William J. Trent, Jr. economist and civil rights activist
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James A. Washington, Jr., civil rights lawyer, university dean, and D.C. Superior Court Judge
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Mark Hanna Watkins
Mark Hanna Watkins (November 23, 1903 – February 24, 1976) was an Afro-American linguist and anthropologist. He was born in Huntsville, Texas, the youngest of fourteen children of a Baptist minister. He obtained a Bachelor of Science from Prair ...
, linguist and anthropologist
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Eric Williams
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who is regarded by some as the "Father of the Nation", having led the then British Trinidad and Tobago, British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to m ...
, historian and first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; returning fellow in 1942
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C. Vann Woodward, historian
1941
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Cleo W. Blackburn, social scientist and college president
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David Blackwell
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the ...
, mathematician
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Herman Branson
Herman Russell Branson (August 14, 1914 – June 7, 1995) was an American physicist, chemist, best known for his research on the alpha helix protein structure, and was also the president of two colleges. He received a fellowship from the Rosenwal ...
, physicist, chemist, and college president
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William Montague Cobb
William Montague Cobb (1904–1990) was an American board-certified physician and a physical anthropologist. As the first African-American Ph.D in anthropology, and the only one until after the Korean War, his main focus in the anthropologica ...
, physician and anthropologist
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Helen Octavia Dickens
Helen Octavia Dickens (February 21, 1909 – December 2, 2001) was an American physician, medical and social activist, health equity advocate, researcher, health administrator, and health educator. She was the first African-American woman to be a ...
, physician and writer
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John Henry Faulk
John Henry Faulk (August 21, 1913 – April 9, 1990) was an American storyteller and radio show host. His successful lawsuit against the entertainment industry helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist.
Early life
John Henry Faulk wa ...
, storyteller and radio host; 1941-1942 fellowship
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Cornelius Golightly, teacher, civil rights activist, and education administrator
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Adelaide M. Cromwell
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell (November 27, 1919 – June 8, 2019) was an American sociologist and professor emeritus at Boston University, where she co-founded the African Studies Center in 1959, and directed the graduate program in Afro-American st ...
, sociologist, historian, and preservationist; returning fellow 1944
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Thomas C. Lea III
Thomas Calloway Lea III (July 11, 1907 – January 29, 2001) was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his Worl ...
, artist, writer, and historian
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Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith, economist, civil rights activist, and diplomat
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Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr., economist and diplomat
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Bell Wiley, historian
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Gordon Randolph Willey, archaeologist and anthropologist
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Margaret Just Butcher
Margaret Just Butcher (April 28, 1913 - February 7, 2000) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Butcher worked as an English professor at Howard University and Federal City College. She also taught for years overseas for years. She ...
, literary scholar, writer, and civil rights activist; 1941-1942 fellowship
1942
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Thomas Bell, writer
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Sterling Allen Brown
Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his caree ...
, folklorist, poet, and literary critic
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Joseph Delaney
Joseph Henry Delaney (25 July 1945 – 16 August 2022) was an English author, known for his dark fantasy series ''Spook's''. He started his career as a teacher and wrote science fiction and fantasy novels for adults under the pseudonym J. K. H ...
, artist
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Owen Dodson
Owen Vincent Dodson (November 28, 1914 – June 21, 1983) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the leading African-American poets of his time, associated with the generation of black poets following the Harlem Renaissance ...
, poet, novelist, and playwright
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Wade Ellis, mathematician
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William Fontaine, philosopher
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Margaret Morgan Lawrence
Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (August 19, 1914 – December 4, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, gaining those qualifications in 1948. Her work included clinical care, teaching, and research, particularly into the presenc ...
, psychiatrist and writer
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Arthur S. Link
Arthur Stanley Link (August 8, 1920 in New Market, Virginia – March 26, 1998 in Advance, North Carolina) was an American historian and educator, known as the leading authority on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
Early life
Born in New Market ...
, historian; returning fellow 1944
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Herman H. Long, social scientist and college president
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Jesse W. Markham
Jesse William Markham (April 16, 1916 – June 21, 2009) was an American economist. Markham was best known for his work on antitrust policy, price theory and industrial organization. Markham was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Adm ...
, economist
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particu ...
, photographer, musician, writer, and film director
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Clarence F. Stephens, mathematician
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Charles Henry Thompson
Charles Henry Thompson (19 July 1895 – 16 January 1980) was an American educational psychologist and the first African-American to earn a doctorate degree in educational psychology. He obtained a Master's degree and Ph.D at the University of C ...
, psychologist, writer, and civil rights legal theorist
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Charles Henry Townes, physicist
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Charles White, artist; 1942-1943 fellowship
* J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician
1943
* Julien Binford, painter
* Mildred Blount, fashion designer
* Marcus Bruce Christian, poet, writer, and folklorist
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* Woody Guthrie, singer-songwriter
* Roi Ottley, journalist
*
* Thomas Sancton Sr., Thomas Sancton, novelist and journalist; returning fellow 1945, 1947
* Hudson Strode, writer
* Julius H. Taylor, physicist
* Hale Woodruff, artist; 1943-1944 fellowship
1944
* Margaret Bush Wilson, lawyer and activist
* Esther Cooper Jackson, civil rights activist and social worker
* E. Franklin Frazier, sociologist and writer
* Robert Gwathmey, artist
*
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* Chester Himes, writer
*
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* Rayford Logan, historian
* Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and writer
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* Margaret Walker, poet and writer
1945
* Conrad Albrizio, painter; 1945-1946 fellowship
*
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* Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer
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* Woody Crumbo, artist, musician and dancer
* Dean Dixon, conductor; 1945-1946 fellowship
*
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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel ''Invisible Man'', which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote ''Shadow and Act'' (1964), a collecti ...
, novelist and literary critic
* Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist and literary critic
*
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Winifred Mason
Winifred Mason (January 31, 1912 – 1993) was an African-American jeweler who was active in New York during the 1940s. She worked primarily in copper, and was inspired by West Indian cultural traditions. She is believed to be the first commercia ...
, jeweler
* Charles Sebree, painter and playwright
* Kenneth Spencer (singer), Kenneth Spencer, opera singer and actor
* Alma Stone Williams, pianist and music teacher
1946
* Evelyn Boyd Granville, Evelyn Boyd, mathematician
* Nat Caldwell, journalist
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Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an African American sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in th ...
, artist; 1946-1947 fellowship
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* Clifton O. Dummett, dentist and dental historian
* Mark Fax, composer and musicologist
* Natalie Hinderas, Natalie Leota Hinderas, pianist, composer and musicologist; returning fellow 1948
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* John Tate Lanning, historian
* Walter McAfee, astronomer
* Willard Motley, writer
*
* Dave Masato Okada, sociologist
*
Marion Palfi
Marion Palfi (1907–1978) was a German-American social-documentary photographer born in Berlin. In 1940 she moved from Germany to New York City to escape the Nazi army and their ideologies.
Early life
Palfi was the daughter of German theater de ...
, photographer
* Rose Piper, painter and textile designer
1947
* William Artis, sculptor
* Byron Burford, painter
* Edward Burrows, historian and civil rights activist
* Martin Dibner, writer
* Grace Towns Hamilton, politician and social justice advocate
* Robert Hayden, Robert E. Hayden, writer and U.S. Poet Laureate
* Blyden Jackson, writer and literary critic
* Ulysses Kay, composer; 1947-1948 fellowship
* Thomas Hal Phillips, novelist, actor and screenwriter
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* John Rhoden, sculptor
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* George C. Stoney, documentary filmmaker
* Alonzo Smythe Yerby, physician and public health official
1948
* James Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet and activist
* Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, television and radio host, and college president
* William J. Cousins, William James Cousins, sociologist
* L’Tanya Griffin, fashion designer
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* Elizabeth Harold Sturz, Elizabeth L. Sturz, poet and social worker
* Samuel L. Myers Sr., Samuel L. Myers, economist and university president
* Marion Perkins, sculptor
* Liston Pope, pastor, theologian, and university dean
* Pearl Primus, dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
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* Oscar W. Ritchie, sociologist
* Haywood Rivers, artist and gallerist
* Samuel Reid Spencer Jr., Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., college president
See also
*Rosenwald Schools
*Rosenwald (film)
*Julian Mack
*Henry H. Rogers
*Booker T. Washington
References
Further reading
* Perkins, Alfred. ''Edwin Rogers Embree: The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Foundation Philanthropy, and American Race Relations'' (Indiana UP, 2011
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External links
''New York Times,'' Jan. 15, 2010
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