• Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) was a leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16...
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    original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020. "Uriah Milton Rose". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on December 22, 2020...
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  • nonfiction children's books. The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement (2014) won the Jane Addams...
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    disenfranchisement of Black Texans under Jim Crow. Barbara Jordan was the youngest of three children, with siblings Rose Mary Jordan McGowan and Bennie Creswell...
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    Hutchinson Barbara Iglewski Shirley Ann Jackson Victoria Jackson Mary Jacobi Frances Wisebart Jacobs Mae Jemison Katherine Johnson Barbara Rose Johns Mary Harris...
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    Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    Sen. Barbara Mikulski, now a Johns Hopkins professor, to receive two honorary degrees". The Hub. May 12, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017. "Barbara Mikulski...
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    Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the...
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    Lynes, Barbara Buhler (1999). Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. ISBN 978-0-300-08176-3. Lynes, Barbara Buhler;...
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  • desegregate such facilities. Ms. Johns noted that one of her inspirations was her uncle, Rev. Johns. In May 1953, Johns was forced to resign as pastor in...
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    E. Lee, which had stood in the collection since 1909, with one of Barbara Rose Johns Powell and the Lee statue was removed December 20–21, 2020. A 2000...
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    of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture Volume 1. Santa Barbara: Greenwood. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-31332-945-6. "Old Town Alameda". www.theharrisonteam...
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    Dority. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini: Cecchina's Dream. Illustrated by Barbara Kiwak. Boston: Pauline Books, 2005. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first-canonized...
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    751, 846, 873. Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. San Diego: Harcourt Brace. p. xv. Lemley, John; Johns, Myke (August 28, 2013)...
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  • the 1960s as the primary advisor and strategist of the SNCC. Biographer Barbara Ransby calls Baker "one of the most important American leaders of the twentieth...
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    Being a Continuation of Work (1875) Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875) Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876) Under the Lilacs (1878) Jack and...
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    where she led the expansion of food and nutrition programs for the poor and rose to party leadership. She retired from Congress in 1983 and taught at Mount...
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    Caron (2023). American Slavery on Film. Hollywood History series. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-7752-0. Larson, Kate Clifford (2004). Bound...
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    Julia Child (category Writers from Santa Barbara, California)
    purposes. The Julia Child rose, known in the UK as the "Absolutely Fabulous" rose, is a golden butter/gold floribunda rose named after Child. The exhibits...
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    all-time leader in football wins, with four appearances by Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, including once as an interim coach. Following a year serving as chair...
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    Rosalynn Carter (redirect from Rose Carter)
    among other speakers including Betty Ford, Bella Abzug, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Audrey Colom, Claire Randall, Gerridee Wheeler, Cecilia Burciaga...
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    children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald. Her siblings included U.S. President and Senator John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U...
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    the sociobiological backgrounds of Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, J. Adam Johns describes how Butler's narratives counteract the death drive behind the...
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    Robert E. Lee, Virginia (removed in 2020, to be replaced later by Barbara Rose Johns) Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri (removed in favor of Harry S. Truman...
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    board. In response, on April 23, 1951, a 16-year-old student named Barbara Rose Johns covertly organized a student general strike. She forged notes to teachers...
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    Dissertations in American Studies, 1996–1997". American Quarterly. 50 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 447–469. June 1998. doi:10.1353/aq.1998.0019....
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    Thurgood Marshall (category United States court of appeals judges appointed by John F. Kennedy)
    Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04687-0. Vile, John R., ed. (2003). Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-989-8...
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    get a medical degree), Sarah Ellen (a writer), John and George. She also had four maiden aunts: Barbara, Ann, Lucy, and Mary, who also lived with them...
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    Rachel Carson (category Johns Hopkins University alumni)
    newspaper and literary supplement. She was admitted to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1928, but was forced to remain at the...
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    United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to...
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