Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Howard

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• Beth A. Brown, NASA astrophysicist[http://space.about.com/od/astronomerbiographies/a/bethbrown.htm]
• Benilde Little, author[http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/Little-Benilde.html]
• Doris Evans McGinty[http://www.coas.howard.edu/music/huje/McGinty.htm]
• African Americans in foreign policy
• Farish Street – African-American business district in Jackson, Mississippi

• Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer[http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/violette-anderson-early-legal-representative][http://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&lpg=PA12&dq=Violette%20Anderson&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&lpg=PA12&dq=Violette%20Anderson&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false]
• Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs[http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/mg38.pdf][http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2238&dat=19730102&id=zUpAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,137106]
• Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator[http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/glory-van-scott-40]
• Charles A. Smythwick, novelist[https://books.google.com/books?id=nr8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA49&dq=Charles%20A.%20Smythwick&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=mL8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&dq=Charles%20A.%20Smythwick&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false]
• Harlem Book Fair
• National Black Theatre[http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/#!about-us/cpu4][http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/theater/national-black-theater-in-harlem-settles-disputes.html?_r=0]
• Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner[https://books.google.com/books?id=RSvAKgxEhuwC&lpg=PA53&dq=%22Molefe%20Pheto%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=cS65Hw0rY1MC&lpg=PA186&dq=%22Molefe%20Pheto%22&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false]
• Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist[http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/cartoonistemerges-from-a-life-lived-in-shadows-1.1445248#.VNOYGTVVK1E]
• Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor[http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dumile-feni]
• Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
• Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner[https://books.google.com/books?id=gt-e-5H9B7QC&lpg=PA234&dq=%22mildred%20blount%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=-VYN_LWZwf4C&lpg=PA292&dq=%22mildred%20blount%22&pg=PA292#v=onepage&q&f=false]
• Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/ruth-bowen-pioneering-agent-died-tuesday-84-article-1.361097]
• Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist[http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/harlem-mourns-death-activist-elombe-brath-article-1.1800926]
• Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/04/arts/judy-dearing-costume-designer-and-former-dancer-dies-at-55.html]
• Cheryll Greene, editor
• Harlem Six [https://books.google.ch/books?id=zuAGrq7q_WcC&lpg=PA87&dq=%22Harlem%20Six%22&hl=de&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.ch/books?id=yMIZZahy_cYC&lpg=PA122&dq=%22Harlem%20Six%22&hl=de&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=false]
• Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see Healy family#Eliza Healy)[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/healy-eliza-sister-mary-magdalen-1846-1918]
• Roi Ottley
• Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), physician at Harlem Hospital (I looked at the [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Myra Adele Logan|

deleted page for her]] and there is nothing to bring to the new article.)

• Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848–1929)
• Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968), Harlem salon host, suffragist, activist
• Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1883–1966), Harlem YWCA leader
• Greater Bethel AME Church (Harlem)
• James Yates, soldier, civil rights activist and author[http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/james-yates]
• Violette Neatly Anderson, first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926)
• George Washington Ellis, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Ellis,+George+Washington

• Charles Henry Thompson
• Dr. Lasalle D. Leffall, Jr. - Prominent surgeon and oncologist.
• William Dawson
• Hugh M. Gloster - College president and literature professor.
• Mark Fax
• Raymond Timothy Jackson
• Constance Tibbs Hobson
• Lilian Evans Tibbs
• Charlotte Wesley Holloman
• Frances Walker
• Cecil Cohen
• Massacre at Place Congo
• Evelyn Davidson White

• Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/to do
• African-American artists
• missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• Caribbean poets
• missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
• missing entries from Writing African-American Women
• missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
• missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography
• Timeline of New York City (existing article to be expanded)
• African American city/state/regional histories, e.g. more examples like in {{tl|African Americans by location}}

Howard University Founders Library!

Thanks to the Schomburg Center at NYPL for putting together this information:

• [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/links Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources]
• [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/online-exhibitions Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions]
• [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/books Digital Schomburg: Online Books]
• [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/images Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations]
• [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/africana-heritage-newsletters Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters]
• [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/02/05/black-life-matters-wikipedia NYPL: Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help]

• Charles Henry Thompson add photo
• Jacob Carruthers add bibliography
• Violette Neatley Anderson add image
• Houston Conwill entry expanded
• Farish Street new article

• The Teahouse is a good online help desk if you need help editing

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