| Biographies People who helped shape history
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 | Calloway, Cab |
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| | Campanella, Roy |
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| | Campbell, E. Simms |
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| | Carew, Rod |
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| | Carmichael, Stokely |
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| | Carney, Harry Howell |
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| | Carr, Leroy |
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| | Carroll, Vinnette |
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| | Carter, Benny |
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 | Carver, George Washington |
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| | Catlett, Elizabeth |
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| | Césaire, Aimé |
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 | Chamberlain, Wilt |
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| | Chapman, Maria Weston |
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| | Charles, Ezzard (Mack) |
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| | Charles, Ray |
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| | Charleston, Oscar |
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| | Chenault, Kenneth |
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| | Chesnutt, Charles W. |
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 | Child, Lydia Maria |
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| | Childress, Alice |
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 | Chisholm, Shirley |
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| | Christian, Barbara |
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| | Christian, Charlie |
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| | Clark, Septima Poinsette |
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| | Clarke, Kenny |
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| | Clayton, Buck |
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| | Cleaver, Eldridge |
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 | Clemente, Roberto |
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| | Clifton, Lucille |
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| | Coachman, Alice |
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 | Coasters |
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| | Coffin, Levi |
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| | Cole, Johnnetta |
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 | Cole, Nat King |
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| | Cole, Natalie |
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 | Coleman, Bessie |
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| | Coleman, Ornette |
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| | Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel |
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| | Collins, Janet |
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 | Coltrane, John |
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 | Constantine, Learie |
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| | Cooke, Sam |
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 | Cooper, Cynthia |
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| | Coppin, Fanny Jackson |
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| | Cortez, Jayne |
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| | Cosby, Bill |
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 | Crandall, Prudence |
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| | Craveirinha, José |
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| | Crouch, Stanley |
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| | Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" |
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| | Crummell, Alexander |
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| | Cruz, Celia |
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| | Cullen, Countee |
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| | Cunningham, Laurie |
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