| Biographies People who helped shape history
| Maathai, Wangari |
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| Mabley, Moms |
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| Madhubuti, Haki R. |
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| Mahal, Taj |
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| Mahoney, Mary |
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| Malcolm X |
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| Malone, Karl |
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| Malone, Moses |
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| Mandela, Nelson |
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| Manley, Michael |
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| Marichal, Juan |
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| Marsalis family |
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| Marshall, Paule |
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| Marshall, Thurgood |
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| Martha and the Vandellas |
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| Mason, Charlotte |
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| Matzeliger, Jan Ernst |
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| Mayfield, Curtis |
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| Mays, Willie |
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| Mbeki, Thabo |
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| McCalla, Val |
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| McDaniel, Hattie |
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| McGhee, Brownie |
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| McKay, Claude |
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| McLean, Jackie |
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| McMillan, Terry |
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| McPhatter, Clyde |
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| McPherson, James Alan |
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| McRae, Carmen |
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| Menard, John Willis |
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| Mengistu Haile Mariam |
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| Menken, Adah Isaacs |
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| Meredith, James |
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| Metcalfe, Ralph |
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| Micheaux, Oscar |
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| Milla, Roger |
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| Miller, May |
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| Miller, Samuel Freeman |
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| Mills, Florence |
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| Miner, Myrtilla |
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| Mingus, Charles |
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| Mitchell, Arthur |
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| Mobley, Hank |
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| Mobutu Sese Seko |
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| Modern Jazz Quartet |
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| Mohammed, Warith Deen |
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| Moi, Daniel arap |
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| Monk, Thelonious |
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| Montgomery, Little Brother |
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| Montgomery, Wes |
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| Moody, Anne |
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| Moonglows |
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| Moore, Archie |
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| Morgan, Joe |
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| Morgan, Lee |
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| Morrison, Toni |
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| Morton, Jelly Roll |
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| Moseley Braun, Carol |
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| Moses, Edwin |
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| Mosley, Walter |
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| Moss, Carlton |
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| Moten, Bennie |
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| Motley, Constance Baker |
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| Motley, Marion |
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| Mugabe, Robert |
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| Muhammad, Elijah |
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| Murphy, Eddie |
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| Murphy, Isaac Burns |
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| Murray, Albert L. |
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| Musa |
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