Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]

Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…

Carl Chapman at an unidentified archaeological site. [University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology and American Archaeology Division, 23SN202-2]

Carl Haley Chapman has appropriately been called the dean of Missouri archaeology, a title…

Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]

Arthur Holly Compton earned international recognition for his research in X-rays, sharing the 1927 Nobel Prize for…

Howard A. Cowden (right) with former president Harry S. Truman. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 64-1411]

The founder of the Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA) and the original field man for…

Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]

Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social…

Joan Crawford in 1928. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-133571]

Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1908, in what she described as “a drab…

Jane Darwell in a photo taken in 1918. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, 22471]

Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was…

Forrest Donnell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]

Born in Quitman, Missouri, on August 20, 1884, the only child of dry-goods operator John…

Phil Donnelly. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]

Phil M. Donnelly was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on March 6, 1891. He was educated in…

Herman Dreer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection, S0336-167]

Herman Dreer, a respected Black St. Louis educator and scholar, was born on September 12,…