Lucy Terry
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Charlie Parker
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Amiri Baraka
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Matthew Alexander Henson
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Whitney Moore Young
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Absalom Jones
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Norbert Rillieux
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U.S.S. Mason
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W.E.B. DuBoise
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Yolande Cornelia ‘Nikki’ Giovanni
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Barbara Clementine Harris
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Wallace Thurman
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Stokley Carmichael
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Fannie M. Jackson Coppin
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Dr. Patricia E. Bath
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