Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
1750 – August 28, 1818 Explorer / Founder of Chicago, [...]
Patricia Roberts Harris
May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985 Government Official / [...]
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
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Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965 Author (Playwright) / [...]
Ralph Waldo Ellison
March 1, 1914– April 16, 1994 Author / Scholar / [...]
Oprah Gail Winfrey
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Lt. Willa Beatrice Brown
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Charles (“Chuck”) Edward Anderson Berry
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John Harold Johnson
January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005 Entrepreneur / Publisher [...]