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| Anita Hill |
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Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956(1956-07-30)) is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence...
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| Barry Bonds |
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Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) was a Major League Baseball player from 1986 to 2007. Although he has not retired, his agent says it is "nearly impossible" that he will play again. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds. He...
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| Clarence Thomas |
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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who has served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. Thomas is the second African-American to serve on the Court, after Thurgood Marshall, whom he...
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| Charles Evers |
James Charles Evers (born September 11, 1922) is an important civil rights advocate in the United States. The older brother of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, Charles Evers is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his...
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| Frederick Douglass |
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of...
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| Gary Coleman |
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Gary Wayne Coleman |
Gary Wayne Coleman (born February 8, 1968) is an American actor, best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986).
Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois. He was adopted by Edmonia Sue, a nurse practitioner,...
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| Hank Aaron |
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Bad Henry |
Henry Louis Aaron (born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama) is a retired American baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned the years 1954 through 1976. Aaron is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all...
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| Jesse Jackson |
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Rev. Jesse Jackson |
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from...
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| Jackie Robinson |
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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As...
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| James Alan McPherson |
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James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973.
McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his short story...
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| Mumia Abu-Jamal |
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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an American who was convicted and sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has been described as "perhaps the best known Death-Row...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King |
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
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| Morgan Freeman |
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Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
Freeman received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street...
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| Ozzie Smith |
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Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954) is a retired American professional baseball player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. Nicknamed "The Wizard," Smith played shortstop for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis...
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872– February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life, one poem in the collection Ode to Ethiopia.
Dunbar...
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| Spike Lee |
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Mars Blackman |
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's movies have examined race relations, the...
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| Sojourner Truth |
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Isabella Baumfree |
Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain't I a...
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| Walter E. Williams |
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Walter E. Williams, (born 1936 in Philadelphia) is the John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.
Wlliams holds a bachelor's degree in...
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| Wilma Rudolph |
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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games, despite running...
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| Zora Neale Hurston |
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her...
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| Booker T. Washington |
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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator, orator and author. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representing the...
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| Harriet Tubman |
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue...
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| Phillis Wheatley |
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Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African American poet and first African-American woman whose writings were published. Born in Gambia, Senegal, she was made a slave at age seven. She was purchased by the Wheatley...
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| Harold Washington |
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Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Harold Washington was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy...
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| Ralph Ellison |
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Ralph Waldo Ellison |
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won...
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| Richard Wright |
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Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author.
Wright, the grandson of formerly enslaved African-Americans, was born on the Rucker plantation in Roxie, Mississippi in Franklin County, just outside of Natchez...
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| Alice Walker |
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Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
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| Toni Morrison |
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Chloe Anthony Wofford |
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters....
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| Tiger Woods |
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Eldrick Woods |
Eldrick Tont Woods (born December 30, 1975), better known as Tiger Woods, is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he was the highest-paid...
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| Frank Robinson |
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Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), is a former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. During a 21-season career, he is the only player to win League...
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| Jesse Owens |
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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each...
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| Andy Razaf | Randy Razaf |
Andy Razaf (December 16, 1895 – February 3, 1973), (born Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo also Razafkeriefo) was an American composer, poet, and lyricist of such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose".
Born in Washington, D...
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| Whoopi Goldberg |
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Caryn Elaine Johnson |
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955 in New York City, New York) is an American actress, comedian , singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a...
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| Thurgood Marshall |
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Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate...
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| Reggie Jackson |
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"Mr. October" |
Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson (born May 18, 1946), nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason, is a former American Major League Baseball right fielder who played for five different teams from 1967 to 1987 and currently...
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| Samuel R. Delany |
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Samuel Ray Delaney, Jr. |
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and nonfiction essays on...
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| K. Leslie Steiner | ||||
| Samuel R. Delaney | ||||
| Samuel Ray Delany Jr. | ||||
| Oprah Winfrey |
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Oprah |
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been...
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| Willie Mays |
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William Howard "Willie" Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931) is a retired American baseball player who played the majority of his career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was...
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| Ken Griffey, Jr. |
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George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. |
George Kenneth "Ken" Griffey, Jr. (born November 21, 1969) is a Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter, for the Seattle Mariners.
Griffey is both one of the most prolific home run hitters and best defensive players in baseball...
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| Muhammad Ali |
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Cassius Clay |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a...
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| Rickey Henderson |
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Rickey Henley Henderson (born Rickey Nelson Henley, December 25, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former baseball player who played left field in Major League Baseball for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his first team, the...
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| Carl Lewis |
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Carl Lewis |
Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first...
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| The Blood of Jesus |
The Blood of Jesus is a 1941 race film written, directed, and starring Spencer Williams. It is based on the poem "Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes, and has the alternate title The Glory Road.
In a small rural village with an African American...
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| Eddie Tolan |
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Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30/31, 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express" was an American athlete and sprinter. He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100-meter event and Olympic records in the 100-meter and 200...
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| Evelyn Ashford |
Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957) is a retired American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. She has with automatic timing run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games....
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| Gail Devers |
Yolanda Gail Devers (born November 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a three-time Olympic 100 m champion in athletics for the US Olympic Team. Devers grew up near National City, CA and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1984. National...
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| Marion Jones |
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Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and...
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| William Harvey Carney |
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Sgt. William H. Carney |
William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 8, 1908) was an American Civil War soldier and the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, though he was not presented with the honor until nearly 37 years after his act of bravery....
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| Do the Right Thing |
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the...
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| Jim Rice |
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James Edward Rice (born March 8, 1953) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball. Rice was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, 2009, as the 103rd member elected in by the BBWAA.
Jim Rice played his entire career for the...
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| Killer of Sheep |
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Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It features Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, and Charles Bracy, among others. The drama depicts the culture of urban African-Americans in Los Angeles'...
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| The Learning Tree |
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The Learning Tree is a 1969 drama film which tells the story of a young African American growing up in a rural setting in the early part of the 20th century, when racial discrimination was a social norm, legally sanctioned in parts of the United...
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| Shaft |
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Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to...
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| Within Our Gates |
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Within Our Gates is a 1920 silent race film that dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro". The story focuses on an African...
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| Roy Campanella |
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Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player — primarily at the position of catcher — in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Widely...
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| Eddie George |
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Edward Nathan George, Jr. (born September 24, 1973) is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He played for the Tennessee Titans both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers,...
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| Tim Montgomery |
Timothy Montgomery (born January 25, 1975) is a former American athlete. In 2005, he was stripped of his records – including a now void 100 m world record of 9.78 seconds set in 2002 – after being found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs....
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| William Perry |
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The Fridge |
William Perry (born December 16, 1962 in Aiken, South Carolina) is a former professional American football player and brother of former professional football player Michael Dean Perry. He is best known for his years as a defensive lineman for the...
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| LeVar Burton |
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. |
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC...
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| Levar Burton | ||||
| W.E.B. Du Bois |
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W.E.B. DuBois |
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the...
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