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, 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 Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October ...
, 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 th ...
, 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, 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 w ...
, 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, 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, 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, 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—particula ...
, 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
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J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician
1943
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Julien Binford
Julien Binford (December 25, 1908 – September 12, 1997) was an American painter. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in France. Settling in Powhatan County, Virginia, he was known for his paintings of the rural population of ...
, painter
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Mildred Blount, fashion designer
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Marcus Bruce Christian, poet, writer, and folklorist
*
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He has inspired ...
, singer-songwriter
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Roi Ottley, journalist
*
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Thomas Sancton, novelist and journalist; returning fellow 1945, 1947
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Hudson Strode
Hudson Strode (October 31, 1892 – September 22, 1976) was an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Alabama from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. His creative writing classes ...
, writer
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Julius H. Taylor, physicist
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Hale Woodruff
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints.
Early life, family and education
Woodruff was born in Cairo, Illinois, in on August 26, 1900. He grew up in a black ...
, artist; 1943-1944 fellowship
1944
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Margaret Bush Wilson, lawyer and activist
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Esther Cooper Jackson
Esther Victoria Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 – August 23, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and social worker. She worked with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E. Burnham, and was one of the fou ...
, civil rights activist and social worker
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E. Franklin Frazier
Edward Franklin Frazier (; September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled ''The Negro Family in the United States'' (1 ...
, sociologist and writer
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Robert Gwathmey, artist
*
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Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include '' If He Hollers Let Him Go'', published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is be ...
, writer
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*
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Rayford Logan
Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction
The nadir of American race relations was the period in Afric ...
, historian
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Pauli Murray
Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women ...
, lawyer, activist, and writer
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Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. H ...
, poet and writer
1945
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Conrad Albrizio, painter; 1945-1946 fellowship
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*
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Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer
*
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Woody Crumbo, artist, musician and dancer
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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 collec ...
, novelist and literary critic
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Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist and literary critic
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Winifred Mason, jeweler
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Charles Sebree, painter and playwright
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Kenneth Spencer, opera singer and actor
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Alma Stone Williams, pianist and music teacher
1946
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Evelyn Boyd, mathematician
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Nat Caldwell
Nathan Green Caldwell (July 16, 1912 – February 11, 1985) was an American journalist who spent fifty years on the staff of the ''Nashville Tennessean''. He was a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1962.
Early life and ...
, 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 the ...
, artist; 1946-1947 fellowship
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*
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Clifton O. Dummett Clifton O. Dummett, Sr. (1919–2011) was a noted American dentist, dental professor and dean, and dental historian.
Early life and education
Dummett was born in Georgetown on May 20, 1919 in what was then British Guiana. He studied at Howard Uni ...
, dentist and dental historian
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Mark Fax, composer and musicologist
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Natalie Leota Hinderas, pianist, composer and musicologist; returning fellow 1948
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John Tate Lanning, historian
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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
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Rose Piper, painter and textile designer
1947
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William Artis, sculptor
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Byron Burford, painter
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Edward Burrows, historian and civil rights activist
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Martin Dibner, writer
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Grace Towns Hamilton, politician and social justice advocate
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Robert E. Hayden, writer and U.S. Poet Laureate
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Blyden Jackson
Blyden Jackson (October 12, 1910 – 2000) was a Black American academic, essayist, and activist.
The grandson of slaves, born in the segregated South, Jackson was the first Black American to become a full professor at the University of North Car ...
, writer and literary critic
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Ulysses Kay
Ulysses Simpson Kay (January 7, 1917 in Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona – May 20, 1995 in Englewood, New Jersey, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American composer. His music is mostly neoclassicism, neoclassical in style.
Life and career
Kay, the ...
, composer; 1947-1948 fellowship
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Thomas Hal Phillips, novelist, actor and screenwriter
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John Rhoden, sculptor
*
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George C. Stoney, documentary filmmaker
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Alonzo Smythe Yerby
Alonzo Yerby (1921–1994) was an American physician and academic who served as the Associate Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He previously served as New York City Hospitals Commissioner, as a department head and professor a ...
, physician and public health official
1948
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James Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet and activist
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Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, television and radio host, and college president
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William James Cousins, sociologist
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L’Tanya Griffin, fashion designer
*
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Elizabeth L. Sturz, poet and social worker
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Samuel L. Myers, economist and university president
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Marion Perkins
Marion Marche Perkins (1908 – December 17, 1961) was an American sculptor who taught and exhibited at Chicago's South Side Community Art Center and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Perkins is widely considered an important artist of t ...
, sculptor
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Liston Pope, pastor, theologian, and university dean
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Pearl Primus
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the n ...
, dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
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Oscar W. Ritchie, sociologist
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Haywood Rivers
Haywood "Bill" Rivers (May 8, 1922 – December 27, 2001) was an African American contemporary artist and gallerist.
Biography
Haywood Rivers was born in Morven, North Carolina on May 8, 1922. He attended classes the Art Students League of New Y ...
, artist and gallerist
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Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., college president
See also
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Rosenwald Schools
The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the part ...
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Rosenwald (film)
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Julian Mack
Julian William Mack (July 19, 1866 – September 5, 1943) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Commerce Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States Circuit Courts for the Seventh Circu ...
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Henry H. Rogers
Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29, 1840 – May 19, 1909) was an American industrialist and financier. He made his fortune in the oil refining business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil. He also played a major role in numerous corporations a ...
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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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