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Robert S. Abbott
Robert S. Abbott

 Muhammed Ali
 Bishop Richard Allen

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 Queen Amina
Marian Anderson
Ya Asantewa
 Ahmed Baba
 James Baldwin
 Sunni Ali Ber
 Mary McLeod Bethune
 Black Reconstruction Congress

 Guion "Guy" Bluford - NASA Astronaut - Guion "Guy" Bluford Biography - NASA Astronaut - First African American In Space
 Colonel Guion Bluford

 Gwendolyn Brooks
 Sgt. William H. Carney
 Dr. George R. Carruthers
 Dr. Benjamin S. Carson
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver

Joseph Cinque
 Fanny M. Coppin
 Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.
 Major Martin Delaney

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 Fredrick Douglas

 Dr. Charles Drew
 Dr. W. E. B. Dubois
Alexander Dumas
 Paul Laurence Dunbar
Duke Ellington
James Forten
 Meta Warwick Fuller

The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey - National Hero of Jamaica
 Marcus M. Garvey

 William Gray III
 Lorraine Hansberry
 Matthew A. Henson

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 Langston Hughes

 Mahalia Jackson
 Mae Jemison
 James Weldon Johnson
 Dr. Katherine G. Johnson
 John H. Johnson
 Percy Lavon Julian

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Capt. Erwin B. Lawrence
 John Henry Lawson
 Alaine Locke
 Joseph Barrow Louis
 Francois Toussaint Louverture
 Makeda

Nelson Mandela
 Nelson Mandela

 Thurgood Marshall
 Jan Ernst Matzeliger
 Garrett A. Morgan
 Carol Mosley
 Queen Nzinga
 Jesse Owens
 William Pickett
 Adam Clayton  Powell Jr.
 Colin L. Powell
 Leontyne Price
 Three Astronomer Priestesses
 Alexander Pushkin
 A.Philip Randolph
 Norbert Rillieux
 Paul Robeson

Jackie Robinson
 Jackie Robinson

 John B. Russwurm
 Arthur A. Schomburg
 Robert Scott Smalls
 Charles Clinton Spaulding
Rev. Leon Sullivan
 1st Lt Stephen Swails
 Harriet R. Tubman
 Nat Turner
 Sojourner Truth
 Maggie Lena Walker
 Ethel Waters
 Ida B. Wells
 Lawrence Douglas Wilder
 Granville T. Woods
 Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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 Malcolm X
 Colonel Charles A. Young
 Ahmos Zu-Bolton II
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