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Robert Sengstacke Abbot, Chicago
Defender Founder/Publisher
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Medger Wiley Evers, Civil Rights
Leader
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Richard Allen, Founder/First
Bishop of the A.M.E. Church
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Louis “Louie” Armstrong, Jazz
Musician
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William C. Handy, Composer
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Benjamin Banneker, Designed
Nation's
Capital/Inventor/Astronomer
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W.E.B. Dubois,
Educator/Author/Historian
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Thomas Bradley, Mayor of Los
Angeles, California
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William “Count” Basie, Orchestra
Leader/Composer
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James Herbert “Eubie” Blake,
Composer/Pianist
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Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic
Champion
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Nathaniel “Nat King” Cole,
Singer
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Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington,
Orchestra Leader/Composer
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James Forten,
Abolitionist/Manufacturer
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Augustus F. Hawkins, U.S.
Congressman, California
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Lionel Hampton, Orchestra
Leader/Composer
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Alex Haley, Author
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Matthew Henson, Explorer
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Timothy Thomas Fortune,
Journalist
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Daniel “Chappie” James,
General/U.S. Air Force
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Benjamin L. Hooks, Former
Executive Director/NAACP
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Reverend Jesse Jackson, Civil
Rights Leader
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Penny Hardaway, Professional
Basketball Player
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Thurgood Marshall, Associate
Justice/U.S. Supreme Court
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John H, Johnson, Publisher of
EBONY & Jet Magazines
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Dr. Ernest Everett Just,
Biologist/Founder of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, Incorporated
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Richard Pryor, Actor/Comedian
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Egbert Austin “Bert” Williams,
Actor/Comedian
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Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman,
Ohio
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Scottie Pippen, Professional
Basketball Player
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Charles B. Rangel, U.S.
Congressman, New York
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Sugar Ray Robinson, Middle-light
Heavyweight Boxing Champion
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Carl B. Stokes, First Black
Elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
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A. Phillip Randolph,
Founder/First President,
International Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters
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Booker T. Washington,
Educator/Founder of Tuskegee
Institute
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Andrew Young, Former Mayor of
Atlanta, Georgia
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Bishop Desmond Tutu
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Kweisi Mfume, Former President
of NAACP
