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William "Count" Basie, orchestra leader/composer
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Benjamin Banneker, designed the nation's capital;
inventor; astronomer
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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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William C. Handy, composer
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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, CA
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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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Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac
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Daniel "Chappie" James, general, U.S. Air Force
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Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Exec. Director, NAACP
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Rev. 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,
EBONY and Jet magazines
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Benjamin Mays, educator/former president, Atlanta
Univ
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Dr. Ernest Everett Just, biologist, a founder of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc
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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 athlete, Chicago Bulls
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Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman, NY
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Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavyweight boxing
champion
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Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland,
OH
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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 Tuskegee Institute\
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Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, GA
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Bishop Desmond Tutu
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Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
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Kweisi Mfume
president of NAACP
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