Anna DeCosta Banks was the first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Banks was one of the first students to earn a diploma from the Hampton Institute’s Training School for Nurses in Virginia and became a registered nurse in 1893. She was known for her distinguished nursing career, […]
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Keyanna Conner is a public official who served as the Virginia Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Governor Ralph Northam. In this role, she oversaw the Department of Human Resource Management, the Department of Elections, the Compensation Board, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, and the Department of General Services. Conner also served a senior
Jennie B. Moton was an influential educator and the wife of Robert Russa Moton. As a special field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in the 1930s and 40s, she worked to improve the lives of rural African Americans in the South. She directed the department of Women’s Industries at the Tuskegee Institute, presided
Virginia Lacy Jones was a pioneering librarian and educator. She was one of the first African Americans to earn a PhD in Library Science and became dean of Atlanta University’s School of Library Sciences, where she served for over three decades and was a leading voice in the education of African American librarians. During the
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Jamel K. Semper has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey since 2023. He previously served as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey from 2018 to 2023. During his time as an Assistant
Leslie Garland Bolling was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance, known for his powerful wood carvings that often-depicted African American subjects and themes. His work began to achieve broader recognition because of the National Negro Exhibition of 1933 at the Smithsonian. His carvings reflected everyday themes and shared values of the Black culture in
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Reginald Lee Doss is a former football Defensive End in the National Football League (NFL). Doss was a gridiron terror for the Pirates during his collegiate years. He amassed 281 tackles during his career with the Pirates and ranks No.2 on Hampton’s single-season tackles list. Following his collegiate playing days, Doss became a seventh-round draft pick
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Judge Robert A. Molloy is a respected jurist who has served with distinction in the judicial system. He currently serves as the Chief United States district judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands and former judge of the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court. Molloy has served on the Superior Court of the
Frankie Muse Freeman was a pioneering civil rights attorney. She was the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination, serving for 14 years in that position. She was also instrumental in creating the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights founded in
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Moogega Cooper Stricker is a planetary protection engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and was the Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission and involved with the InSight Mission. Her crucial work involves ensuring that spacecraft exploring other celestial bodies does not contaminate them with Earth-based microbes, and vice versa. Dr. Cooper
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James West is a prolific inventor and scientist, best known for co-inventing the electret microphone in the 1960s while working at Bell Labs. This inexpensive and compact microphone is now used in most microphones today, from telephones to hearing aids. He also holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of
Robert Russa Moton was an influential educator and civil rights leader who served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935. He also authored several books including an autobiography
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