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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950β, American scholar and critic, b. Keyser, W.Va., B.A. Yale, 1973, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1979, where he studied with Wole Soyinka. Gates is an expert on African-American lite...Flynt, Larry Claxton, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Flynt, Larry Claxton, Jr., 1942-2021, American magazine publisher, b. Lakeville, Ky. Flynt was the son of a sharecropper, and dropped out of school at...Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr. (Bobby Jones), 1902β71, American golfer, b. Atlanta, Ga. A lawyer, he became a golf devotee. Jones won the National Open (1923, 1926, 1929β30), the National Amateur (1924β...Jordan, Vernon Eulion, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Jordan, Vernon Eulion, Jr., 1935β2021, African-American civil-rights leader and lawyer, b. Atlanta, Ga., DePauw Univ. (BA, 1957), Howard Univ. Law Sch...Jackson, Maynard Holbrook, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Jackson, Maynard Holbrook, Jr., 1938β2003, American politician, b. Dallas, Tex., grad. Morehouse College (B.A., 1956), North Carolina Central Univ. (J.D., 1964). Jackson, a Democratic lawyer with a ...Jaggar,Thomas Augustus, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Jaggar,Thomas Augustus, Jr., 1871β1953, American geologist and volcanologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Harvard, 1897. One of the team of U.S. scientists (1902) who surveyed the eruptions in the West I...Mays, Willie Howard, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Mays, Willie Howard, Jr. (βSay Heyβ Willie Mays), 1931β, American baseball player, b. Fairfield, Ala. He began his professional career at 17 with the Black Barons of the Negro National League. I...Motley, Archibald John, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Motley, Archibald John, Jr., 1891β1981, African American artist, b. New Orleans, grad. Art Institute of Chicago (1918). He was an important figure in the early Harlem Renaissance, though he spent mo...Nash, John Forbes, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Nash, John Forbes, Jr., 1928β2015, American mathematician, b. Bluefield, W.Va., grad. Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon Univ., B.A. and M.A. 1948), Ph.D. Princeton 1950. During a...Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902β85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1937β44, 1947β53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist ...Browse by Subject
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