| Biographies People who helped shape history
 | Laine, Cleo |
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 | Langston, John Mercer |
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| | Lanier, Willie |
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| | Lara, Brian |
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| | Larsen, Nella |
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| | Lawrence, Jacob |
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| | Leadbelly |
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| | Lee, Spike |
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| | Leonard, Buck |
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| | Leonard, Sugar Ray |
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| | Lewis, Sir Arthur |
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| | Lewis, Carl |
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| | Lewis, Edmonia |
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| | Lewis, John |
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| | Lewis, Lennox |
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| | Lewis, Meade |
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| | Lipscomb, Gene |
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| | Liston, Sonny |
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| | Little Richard |
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| | Little Walter |
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 | LL Cool J |
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| | Lloyd, Clive |
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| | Lloyd, Earl |
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| | Lloyd, John Henry |
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 | Locke, Alain |
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| | Lorde, Audre |
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 | Louis, Joe |
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| | Love (Arthur Lee) |
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 | Lovejoy, Elijah P. |
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| | Lunceford, Jimmie |
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 | Lundy, Benjamin |
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 | Luthuli, Albert John |
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| | Lymon, Frankie, and the Teenagers |
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 | Lynch, John R. |
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