The Historical Rapsheet
- Richard Allen
- Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. The year was 1794.
- Marian Anderson
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- Mary McLeod Bethune
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- James Brown
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- Grace Bumbry
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- Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
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- George
Washington Carver
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- Paul
Cuffe
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- Angela Yvonne Davis
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- Frederick Douglass
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- Charles Richard Drew
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- William Edward Burghart DuBois
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- Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- The first artist to employ the black English dialect in widely published poetry.
- William Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
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- Ralph Ellison
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- Medgar Evers
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- Franz O. Fanon
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- William Lloyd Garrison
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- Marcus Garvey
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- Fannie Lou Hamer
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- Lorraine Hansberry
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- Matthew Henson
- Exporer with Peary.
- Langston Hughes
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- Zora Neal Hurston
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- James Weldon Johnson
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- Barbara Jordan
- Barbara Jordan, was born February 21, 1936, in a predominantly Black low-income section
of Houston. She went on to become a lawyer and political figure, achieving a series of
"firsts" in her career. The Texas Democrat became the first Black to be elected
to the Texas Senate since 1883 - and was also the first woman to be elected to that
office. She held that post from 1966 to 1972. Elected Texas Senate President Pro Tempore
in 1972, she became the first woman ever to preside over the legislative chamber. Jordan
graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. degree in history and political science from Texas
Southern University. She earned a law degree from Boston University and returned to
Houston to practice law before going into public service.
-- Robert McIver
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Thurgood
Marshall
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- Gordon Parks
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- Rosa Parks
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- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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- Paul Robeson
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- Jackie Robinson
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- El-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X)
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- Nat Turner
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- Booker T. Washington
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- Carter G. Woodson
- "The Father of Black History"