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James Meredith
James Howard Meredith, born in 1933, is an American civil rights activist who became the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi.
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe, American conservative activist, founder of Project Veritas (2010) and O'Keefe Media Group; known for ACORN and NPR hidden-camera stings, a 2010 misdemeanor conviction, civil judgments, and his 2023 removal from Veritas.
James Ogilvy
James Ogilvy (James Robert Bruce Ogilvy, b. 1964, Thatched House Lodge) is a British landscape designer, photographer, and founder of Luxury Briefing; eldest child of Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy, untitled, 58th in line of succession, married to Julia Rawlinson since 1988.
James R. Jordan Sr.
James R. Jordan Sr. (1936-1993), father of Michael Jordan, GE worker murdered July 23, 1993 near Lumberton, NC; Daniel Green and Larry Demery convicted 1996, evidence disputes persist.
James Reeb
James Reeb (1927–1965) was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston beaten to death in Selma, Alabama, on March 9–11, 1965; his killers were acquitted, and his death spurred the Voting Rights Act.
Jamie Ding
Jamie Ding, American Jeopardy! champion, Princeton 2013 molecular biology graduate, New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency administrator, and Seton Hall law student, won 31 consecutive games in 2026 for $882,605, fifth all-time in wins and regular-season winnings.
Jamie Spears
Jamie Spears (James P. Spears) is the father of Britney Spears who served as conservator of her estate from 2008 to 2021, controlling her $60m fortune, was suspended in September 2021, and settled related disputes in April 2024.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pacifist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born 1933), American teacher from Riceville, Iowa, creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination exercise first run with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, later a diversity trainer.
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), born Jane Butzner, American-Canadian writer and activist; author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961); led fights against Robert Moses projects in New York and the Spadina Expressway in Toronto.
Japan Labor Union Council
The Japan Labor Union Council (Hyōgikai) was Japan's first nationwide federation of left-wing labor unions, founded in 1925 under Communist Party influence and banned in 1928.
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans (日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry, including Issei immigrants and their Nisei, Kibei, and Sansei descendants. About 120,000 were incarcerated under Executive Order 9066 in WWII; the 1988 Civil Liberties Act brought apology and $20,000 redress.
Japanese Brazilians
Japanese Brazilians (nipo-brasileiros, 日系ブラジル人) are Brazilians of Japanese ancestry from migration beginning with the 1908 Kasato Maru; Brazil hosts the world's largest Japanese diaspora, about 2.7 million, and since the 1980s many have migrated back to Japan as dekasegi workers.
Japanese clans
Japanese clans (uji 氏, shizoku 氏族) were kin-based political associations of ancient Japan, ranked by the shisei system of clan names and hereditary kabane titles, reformed in 684 into eight kabane, and persisting through the Nara era before the household ie displaced the uji by the twelfth century.
Japanese diaspora
Japanese diaspora: Nikkei communities of Japanese emigrants and descendants worldwide, beginning with 153 migrants to Hawaii in 1868; roughly 770,000 prewar emigrants; Brazil hosts the world's largest Nikkei population.
Japanese family
Japanese family (家族, kazoku): family as a social and legal institution in Japan. Defined by the ie system abolished in 1947, nuclear-family and single-person households now dominate, with 50.3% of households including someone aged 65 or over.
Japanese funeral
Japanese funeral: the Buddhist-style wake (tsuya), funeral service, near-universal cremation (99.97%), kotsuage bone-picking, and 49-day mourning rites, plus Shinto, Catholic, and secular variants and a 1.83-trillion-yen funeral industry.
Japanese immigration to Brazil
Japanese immigration to Brazil began on 18 June 1908, when the Kasato Maru docked at Santos with 781 immigrants bound for São Paulo's coffee plantations.
Japanese in Hawaii
Japanese in Hawaii: the Japanese diaspora community of Hawaii, from the 1868 Gannenmono and 1885–1894 government-sponsored migration through plantation labor, the 1909 and 1920 strikes, selective wartime internment, and lasting cultural influence.
Japanese people
Japanese people are the population native to the Japanese Archipelago, formed by admixture of Jomon foragers and Yayoi-era continental farmers (10-20% Jomon ancestry). Key groups: Ainu, Ryukyuans, Burakumin, zainichi Koreans, and a ~2.5 million-strong Nikkei diaspora.
Japanese Peruvians (日系ペルー人)
Japanese Peruvians (日系ペルー人), the nikkei community of Japanese descent in Peru, began with 790 Sakura Maru contract workers on April 3, 1899; 18,727 arrived by 1923, and about 200,000 descendants now span six generations, despite WWII deportations to US camps.
Japanese Red Cross Society
The Japanese Red Cross Society (日本赤十字社) is Japan's national Red Cross society, founded in 1877 as the Philanthropic Society during the Satsuma Rebellion and renamed in 1887.
Jarawas (Andaman Islands)
Jarawas (Ang), an Indigenous Andamanese hunter-gatherer people of South and Middle Andaman's western coasts, India; a PVTG of about 341 people with a 1,028 sq km tribal reserve under the 1956 PAT Regulation and 2004 Jarawa policy.
Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor (born 1951) is an American white nationalist writer, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of American Renaissance, who calls himself a race realist; SPLC and ADL classify him as a white supremacist.
Jason Kessler
Jason Kessler, UVA graduate and Charlottesville resident, white nationalist organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, later a litigant over his revoked permit, consent-decree signatory, and Unite the Right 2 organizer.
Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ)
Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ), also Jatt Sikh, is the landowning agrarian caste dominant in Punjab's Sikh community: about 25% of the population owning over 90% of farmland, shaped by colonial policy, gurdwara politics, and diaspora.
Jats
Jats: a large agrarian caste-community of northwestern South Asia (Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Sind), Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims; 82.5 million in India (2012); distinct from the pejorative Afghan peripatetic label Jāt.
Javanese people
Javanese (Orang Jawa), Indonesia's largest ethnic group, about 85 million people on Java; Austronesian language with ngoko, madya, krama speech levels; syncretic kejawen Islam; large diasporas in Suriname, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings is an American transgender activist, author, and reality TV star of TLC's I Am Jazz (2015- ). Known for a 2007 Barbara Walters interview at age six, early transition, memoir Being Jazz, and Harvard studies.
Jealousy
Jealousy, an affective state triggered by a perceived threat to a valued relationship by a rival, is studied as romantic jealousy with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components; distinct from envy, it shows small average sex differences in responses to sexual versus emotional infidelity.