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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
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Deborah “Debbie” Kaye Allen
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
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(Lawrence) Douglas Wilder
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Bass Reeves
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