Louis Daniel Armstrong
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Jesse Owens
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Bernard Shaw
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Minister Louis Farrakhan
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Arthur Wergs Mitchell
December 22, 1883 – May 9, 1968 Politician Arthur Mitchell [...]
Milton Olive III
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