| Biographies People who helped shape history
| Raby, Al |
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| Rainey, Joseph Hayne |
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| Rainey, Ma |
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| Randolph, A. Philip |
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| Ransier, Alonzo J. |
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| Rapier, James T. |
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| Rawlings, Jerry |
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| Ray, Charlotte E. |
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| Reagon, Bernice Johnson |
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| Redding, Otis |
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| Reed, Ishmael |
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| Reed, Jimmy |
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| Reed, Willis |
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| Revels, Hiram R. |
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| Rice, Condoleezza |
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| Rice, Jerry |
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| Richards, Viv |
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| Ringgold, Faith |
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| Roach, Max |
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| Roberts, Joseph Jenkins |
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| Robertson, Oscar |
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| Robeson, Paul |
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| Robinson, Bill |
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| Robinson, Eddie |
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| Robinson, Frank |
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| Robinson, Jackie |
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| Robinson, Max |
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| Robinson, Rubye |
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| Robinson, Smokey, and the Miracles |
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| Robinson, Sugar Ray |
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| Rollins, Sonny |
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| Rosenwald, Julius |
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| Rowan, Carl |
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| Rudolph, Wilma |
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| Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre |
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| Run-D.M.C. |
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| Russell, Bill |
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| Rustin, Bayard |
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