African Americans

Like “medical” cohort, this is a cohort according to typology assigned by the CBW team. This is a cohort of the persons in CBW who are known to have African descent, whether they appear in a single-race collection or are included in a diverse set.

446 total

• Candy
  • Gender: Female
• Eve
  • Gender: Female
• Sukey
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte
  • Gender: Female
• Peggy
  • Gender: Female
• Morier
  • Gender: Female
• Chloe
  • Gender: Female
• Becky
  • Gender: Female
• Agnes Adams
  • Gender: Female
• Sadie Adams
  • Gender: Female
• Lucinda Adams
  • Gender: Female
• Octavia V. Albert
  • Gender: Female
• Rebecca Aldridge
  • Gender: Female
• Amy Alexander
  • Gender: Female
• Alice
  • Gender: Female
• Sara Allen
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Allen
  • Gender: Female
• Amelia Allen
  • Gender: Female
• Hilton Als
  • Gender: Male
• Marian Anderson
  • Gender: Female
• Naomi Anderson
  • Gender: Female
• Cecele Anderson
  • Gender: Female
• A. L. Anderson
  • Gender: Female
• Ludie Andrews
  • Gender: Female
• Caroline Andrews-Hill
  • Gender: Female
• Maya Angelou
  • Gender: Female
• Judith Angus
  • Gender: Female
• anon00170
  • Gender: Female
• anon0083
  • Gender: Female
• anon0160
  • Gender: Female
• anon0161
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Arbuckle
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Baker
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Baldwin
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Baltimore
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Banks, R. N.
  • Gender: Female
• Janie Barrett
  • Gender: Female
• Flora Batson
  • Gender: Female
• Laura Bayne
  • Gender: Female
• Delilah Beasley
  • Gender: Female
• Matilda Beasley
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Becraft
  • Gender: Female
• Ann Becroft
  • Gender: Female
• Benevolence of a Colored Woman
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Berry
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Bethune
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Black
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Booth
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Booze
  • Gender: Female
• Agnes Boozer
  • Gender: Female
• Rosa Bowser
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Bowser
  • Gender: Female
• Benjamin Brawley
  • Gender: Male
• Martha Briggs
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Britton
  • Gender: Female
• Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Gender: Female
• Blanche Brooks
  • Gender: Female
• Jinx Broussard
  • Gender: Female
• Laura Brown
  • Gender: Female
• Hallie Brown
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte Brown
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Brown
  • Gender: Female
• Sue Brown
  • Gender: Female
• L. Brown
  • Gender: Female
• Carrie Bullock
  • Gender: Female
• Esther Bullock
  • Gender: Female
• Lillian Bundy
  • Gender: Female
• Cora Burgan
  • Gender: Female
• Ruby Burke
  • Gender: Female
• Harry Burleigh
  • Gender: Male
• Pauline Burns
  • Gender: Female
• Nannie Burroughs
  • Gender: Female
• Annie Burton
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Burwell
  • Gender: Female
• Silena Butler
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Campbell
  • Gender: Female
• Edith Carter
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen Carter
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Carter-Brooks
  • Gender: Female
• Carrie Cartwright
  • Gender: Female
• George Carver
  • Gender: Male
• Mary Cary
  • Gender: Female
• Marietta Chiles
  • Gender: Female
• Shirley Chisholm
  • Gender: Female
• Septima Clark
  • Gender: Female
• Consuello Clark
  • Gender: Female
• Johnnetta Cole
  • Gender: Female
• Lucretia Coleman
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Coles
  • Gender: Female
• Georgie Colley
  • Gender: Female
• Myrtle Cook
  • Gender: Female
• Essie Cooke
  • Gender: Female
• Chloe Cooley
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Cooper
  • Gender: Female
• Ada Cooper
  • Gender: Female
• Fannie Coppin
  • Gender: Female
• Julia Coston
  • Gender: Female
• Dinah Cox
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen Craft
  • Gender: Female
• Marguerette Creth
  • Gender: Female
• Sadie Daniel
  • Gender: Female
• Sylvia Dannett
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Davis
  • Gender: Female
• Henrietta Davis
  • Gender: Female
• Belle Davis
  • Gender: Female
• Angela Davis
  • Gender: Female
• Georgia DeBaptiste
  • Gender: Female
• William DeBerry
  • Gender: Male
• Hattie DeHart
  • Gender: Female
• Catherine Delany
  • Gender: Female
• A. DeMent
  • Gender: Female
• Louise De Mortie
  • Gender: Female
• Juliette Derricotte
  • Gender: Female
• Addie Dickerson
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Douglass
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Douglass
  • Gender: Female
• Martha Drummer
  • Gender: Female
• Silvia Dubois
  • Gender: Female
• Paul Dunbar
  • Gender: Male
• Matilda Dunbar
  • Gender: Female
• Helen Dundee
  • Gender: Female
• Katherine Dunham
  • Gender: Female
• James Dunston
  • Gender: Male
• Sarah Jane Early
  • Gender: Female
• E. Eato
  • Gender: Female
• Marian Edelman
  • Gender: Female
• Elleanor Eldridge
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Elliott Davis
  • Gender: Female
• Jesse Fauset
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Fayerweather
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Ferguson
  • Gender: Female
• Catherine Ferguson
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Fisher
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Fitzgerald
  • Gender: Female
• Louise Fleming
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Forten
  • Gender: Female
• James Forten
  • Gender: Male
• Margaretta Forten
  • Gender: Female
• Eliza Fox
  • Gender: Female
• Mamie Fox
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Frances
  • Gender: Female
• Aretha Franklin
  • Gender: Female
• Martha Franklin
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Frazier
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Freeman
  • Gender: Female
• Minnie French
  • Gender: Female
• Meta Fuller
  • Gender: Female
• Eliza Gardner
  • Gender: Female
• Margaret Garner
  • Gender: Female
• Julia Garnet
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Garnett
  • Gender: Female
• Althea Gibson
  • Gender: Female
• Artishia Gilbert
  • Gender: Female
• Nikki Giovanni
  • Gender: Female
• Glover
  • Gender: Female
• Whoopi Goldberg
  • Gender: Female
• Nora Gordon
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Gordon
  • Gender: Female
• Georgia Gordon
  • Gender: Female
• Milla Granson
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Grasses
  • Gender: Female
• Ida Gray
  • Gender: Female
• Hattie Green
  • Gender: Female
• Lear Green
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Greenfield
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte Grimké
  • Gender: Female
• Angelina Grimké
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Gross
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Hackley
  • Gender: Female
• Annie Hall
  • Gender: Female
• Fannie Hamer
  • Gender: Female
• Sadie Hamilton
  • Gender: Female
• Carrie Hamilton
  • Gender: Female
• Frank Hammond
  • Gender: Female
• Ada Hand
  • Gender: Female
• Lorraine Hansberry
  • Gender: Female
• Maud Hare
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Harper
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Harper
  • Gender: Female
• Clara Harris
  • Gender: Female
• Hazel Harrison
  • Gender: Female
• Zenobia Hawes
  • Gender: Female
• Bessie Hawes
  • Gender: Female
• Neale Hawkins
  • Gender: Female
• Della Hayden
  • Gender: Female
• Roland Hayes
  • Gender: Male
• Blanch Hayes
  • Gender: Female
• Josie D. Heard
  • Gender: Female
• Ariel Hedges Bowen
  • Gender: Female
• Dorothy Height
  • Gender: Female
• Mattie Henderson
  • Gender: Female
• Frank Henry
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Herod
  • Gender: Female
• Sadie Hobday
  • Gender: Female
• Billie Holiday
  • Gender: Female
• Annie Holland
  • Gender: Female
• Odetta Holmes
  • Gender: Female
• Lena Horne
  • Gender: Female
• Joan Howard
  • Gender: Female
• Alice Howard
  • Gender: Female
• Clara Howard
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Hudlun
  • Gender: Female
• Gloria Hull
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Hunter
  • Gender: Female
• Alberta Hunter
  • Gender: Female
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  • Gender: Female
• Zora Hurston
  • Gender: Female
• May Hyers
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Hyers
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Hyers
  • Gender: Female
• Toyomi Igus
  • Gender: Female
• Carole Ione
  • Gender: Female
• Jenny Jackson
  • Gender: Female
• M. Jackson
  • Gender: Female
• Mahalia Jackson
  • Gender: Female
• May Jackson
  • Gender: Female
• Georgia Johnson
  • Gender: Female
• A. Johnson
  • Gender: Female
• Hallie Johnson
  • Gender: Female
• Sissieretta Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Lela Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Fredricka Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Claudia Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Verina Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Rosa Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Nancy Jones
  • Gender: Female
• Barbara Jordan
  • Gender: Female
• June Jordan
  • Gender: Female
• Mame Josenberger
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Joseph-Gaudet
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Joyner
  • Gender: Female
• Mabel Keaton
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Keckley
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Keyser
  • Gender: Female
• Eartha Kitt
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Laney
  • Gender: Female
• Nella Larsen
  • Gender: Female
• Rosetta Lawson
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Lee
  • Gender: Female
• Esther Lee
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Lee
  • Gender: Female
• N. Leslie
  • Gender: Female
• Edmonia Lewis
  • Gender: Female
• Lillian Lewis
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Lewis
  • Gender: Female
• Mabel Lewis
  • Gender: Female
• Adella Logan
  • Gender: Female
• Audre Lorde
  • Gender: Female
• Ruth Lowery
  • Gender: Female
• Abbie Lyon
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotta MacHenry Pyles
  • Gender: Female
• Essie Mack
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Mahoney
  • Gender: Female
• Monroe Majors
  • Gender: Male
• Georgia Martin
  • Gender: Female
• Biddy Mason
  • Gender: Female
• Lena Mason
  • Gender: Female
• Victoria Matthews
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte May
  • Gender: Female
• Jennette May
  • Gender: Female
• Melissa McClure
  • Gender: Female
• Mary McCoy
  • Gender: Female
• Hattie McDaniel
  • Gender: Female
• Hannah McDonald
  • Gender: Female
• Alice McEwen
  • Gender: Female
• Mattie McGhee
  • Gender: Female
• Genevieve McKinney
  • Gender: Female
• Alice McKinney
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Merrett
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Merritt
  • Gender: Female
• Charity Miles
  • Gender: Female
• Cheryl Miller
  • Gender: Female
• Lucile Miller
  • Gender: Female
• Agnes Minge
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Minor
  • Gender: Female
• Nellie Mitchell
  • Gender: Female
• Eva Monroe
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Moody
  • Gender: Female
• Serena Moore
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Moore
  • Gender: Female
• Gertrude Moore
  • Gender: Female
• Joanna Moore
  • Gender: Female
• Toni Morrison
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Mossell
  • Gender: Female
• Gertrude Mossell
  • Gender: Female
• Robert Moton
  • Gender: Male
• Ednorah Nahar
  • Gender: Female
• J. Napier
  • Gender: Female
• Inez Neely
  • Gender: Female
• Alice Nelson
  • Gender: Female
• Earnestine Nesbitt
  • Gender: Female
• Ruth Occomy
  • Gender: Female
• Old Aunt Sarah
  • Gender: Female
• Estelle Osborne
  • Gender: Female
• Belva Overton, R. N.
  • Gender: Female
• Dinah Pace
  • Gender: Female
• Zelia Page
  • Gender: Female
• Rosa Parks
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Parrish
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Patterson
  • Gender: Female
• Minnie Patterson
  • Gender: Female
• Georgia Patton
  • Gender: Female
• Martha Payne
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Peake
  • Gender: Female
• Meta Pelham
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Belle Penn
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Pettey
  • Gender: Female
• Marion Pettiford
  • Gender: Female
• John Pierce
  • Gender: Male
• Andrea Pinkney
  • Gender: Female
• Petra Pinn,
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Pitts
  • Gender: Female
• Ann Plato
  • Gender: Female
• Annie Pleasant
  • Gender: Female
• Maggie Porter
  • Gender: Female
• Harriette Presley
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Preston
  • Gender: Female
• Lylbrounetta Preston
  • Gender: Female
• Leontyne Price
  • Gender: Female
• Nancy Prince
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Prout
  • Gender: Female
• C. Purce
  • Gender: Female
• Harriet Purvis
  • Gender: Female
• Georgiana Putnam
  • Gender: Female
• Caroline Putnam
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Quickley
  • Gender: Female
• Virginia Randolph
  • Gender: Female
• H. Ray
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Ray
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte Ray
  • Gender: Female
• Margaret Reid
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Remond
  • Gender: Female
• Martha Ricks
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Roberts
  • Gender: Female
• M. Rodgers Webb
  • Gender: Female
• Clara Rollins
  • Gender: Female
• Charles Roman
  • Gender: Male
• Wilma Rudolph
  • Gender: Female
• Josephine Ruffin
  • Gender: Female
• Louise Russell
  • Gender: Female
• Betye Saar
  • Gender: Female
• Sonia Sanchez
  • Gender: Female
• Hetty Saunders
  • Gender: Female
• Celia Saxon
  • Gender: Female
• Jessie Scales
  • Gender: Female
• Winnie Scott
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte Scott
  • Gender: Female
• Virginia Scott
  • Gender: Female
• Eliza Scroggins
  • Gender: Female
• Lawson Scruggs
  • Gender: Male
• Lucie Scruggs
  • Gender: Female
• Betty Shabazz
  • Gender: Female
• Jennie Sharpe
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Sheppard
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Shorter
  • Gender: Female
• Alice Sightler
  • Gender: Female
• Lucretia Simpson
  • Gender: Female
• Georgiana Simpson
  • Gender: Female
• Chlora Sledge
  • Gender: Female
• Jenny Slew
  • Gender: Female
• Bessie Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Amanda Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Georgina Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Christine Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Willie Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Lavinia Sneed
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Spencer
  • Gender: Female
• Rosetta Sprague
  • Gender: Female
• Melba Stafford
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Staley
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Stayley
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Steward
  • Gender: Female
• Mamie Steward
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Steward
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Stewart
  • Gender: Female
• Sallie Stewart
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Stewart
  • Gender: Female
• Caroline Still Anderson
  • Gender: Female
• C. Stumm
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Talbert
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Tanner
  • Gender: Female
• Minnie Tate
  • Gender: Female
• Susie Taylor
  • Gender: Female
• Rebecca Taylor
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Taylor
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Terrell
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Terry
  • Gender: Female
• Lillian Thomas
  • Gender: Female
• Clarissa Thompson
  • Gender: Female
• Ada Thoms
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Thurman
  • Gender: Female
• Amelia Tilghman
  • Gender: Female
• Hettie Tilghman
  • Gender: Female
• Katherine Tillman
  • Gender: Female
• Amelia Tolbert
  • Gender: Female
• Sojourner Truth
  • Gender: Female
• Harriet Tubman
  • Gender: Female
• Fannie Turner
  • Gender: Female
• Tina Turner
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Tyler
  • Gender: Female
• Wyomia Tyus
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Vashon
  • Gender: Female
• Maggie Walker
  • Gender: Female
• C. J. Walker
  • Gender: Female
• Rachael Walker
  • Gender: Female
• Alice Walker
  • Gender: Female
• Cheryl Wall
  • Gender: Female
• Ruby Wallace
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Waring
  • Gender: Female
• Margaret Washington
  • Gender: Female
• Olivia Washington
  • Gender: Female
• Josephine Washington
  • Gender: Female
• Rachel Washington
  • Gender: Female
• Frankie Wassom
  • Gender: Female
• Ida Wells
  • Gender: Female
• Ophie Wells
  • Gender: Female
• Rachel Wesley
  • Gender: Female
• Dorothy West
  • Gender: Female
• Laura Westbrook
  • Gender: Female
• Madam Wetzel
  • Gender: Female
• Phillis Wheatley
  • Gender: Female
• Daniel Williams
  • Gender: Male
• Fannie Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Marie Williams
  • Gender: Female
• George Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Melvina Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Luis Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Molly Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Ella Williams
  • Gender: Female
• Nahketa Williams,
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Wilson
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Windsor
  • Gender: Female
• Jeroline Winfield,
  • Gender: Female
• Oprah Winfrey
  • Gender: Female
• Valetta Winslow
  • Gender: Female
• Cora Winston
  • Gender: Female
• Ione Wood
  • Gender: Female
• Lynette Woodard
  • Gender: Female
• Josephine Yates
  • Gender: Female
• ZTest Z'testing
  • Gender: Assumed-F

Types

This cohort shares 120 person types:

• Abolitionist
• Activist
• Activist, Civil Rights
• Activist, Women's Rights
• Adventure, physical feat or survival
• African American
• American, Native
• American (US)
• Anglo-Saxon
• Anonymous group
• Anonymous individual
• Anonymous set
• Artisan
• Artist
• Artist, painter
• Artist, sculptor
• Asian, East
• Athlete
• Author or presenter
• Businesswoman
• Canadian
• Caribbean
• Charity
• Clergy
• Colonial, colonist in America
• Cross dresser, male impersonator
• Daughter of notable man
• Daughter of notable woman
• Dentist
• Director
• divorced or separated
• Dramatist
• Editor or publisher
• Educational founder, schoolmistress
• Educator, professor
• English
• Entrepreneur
• Expatriated, exiled person
• Fashion leader
• Frontierswoman
• Heroine in war
• Heroine of rescue
• Historian
• Inventor
• Irish
• Jewish
• Journalist
• Laborer, rural
• Lawyer, Attorney, Judge
• Librarian
• Medicine (doctor)
• Member of committee or club
• Member of local society
• Midwife
• Military
• Missionary
• Model of faith, piety
• Model of indigenous, rural virtue
• Model of overcoming urban poverty
• Model of race
• Model single woman
• Mother, model of family life
• Mother of notable man
• Mother of notable woman
• Mother Who Has Lost a Child
• Mulatto
• Musician, composer
• Nun
• Nurse
• Nursing reform
• Official or Administrator
• Performer, actress
• Performer, dancer
• Performer, Musician
• Performer, popular entertainment
• Performer, singer
• Person of Mixed Race or Ethnicity
• Philanthropist
• Politician
• Preacher
• Prisoner or captive
• Prostitute
• Reformer, education
• Reformer, political
• Reformer, religious
• Religious sect member, founding
• Representative of nationality
• Role in revolution
• Saint
• Scientist
• Self-made rich woman
• Sempstress, milliner
• Servant
• sexual agency, bissexual or queer
• Sister of eminent woman
• Sister of notable man
• Slave, bondservant, former slave
• Social scientist, theorist
• Social worker
• Soldier
• Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
• Spy
• Suffragette
• Teacher
• Temperance worker
• Traveler, travel writer
• Typist, clerk, or office worker
• Victim of injustice
• widow
• Wife, example of domesticity
• Wife, Honorable and Dedicated
• Wife of notable man
• Wife with Great Influence on Husband
• Writer
• Writer for children
• Writer, Nonfiction
• Writer, Novel
• Writer, Plays
• Writer, Poetry
• Writer, Short fiction