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#	Article	description	sex or gender	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	occupation	item
1	Addison Barry Rand	chairman	male	1944-11-05	2018-11-07	Washington, D.C.		Q135189471
2	Alexander P. Ashbourne	(1820-1915) African American slave and inventor	male	1820	1915	Philadelphia	inventor	Q98583178
3	Alonzo Alexander Swann, Jr.	navy	male	1925-09-21	2007-01-30	Steelton		Q135222062
4	Alonzo Ashley	African-American man (1982-2011) killed in a struggle with police officers at the Denver Zoo in Colorado	male	1982	2011-07-18			Q116603431
5	Andrea Long	( ? — ) Image Ownership: Public Domain Thirteen years principal dancer at Dance Theatre of Harlem, Andrea Long began her career dancing with the New York City Ballet and remained there for over eight years. Internationally renowned, she continues t	female					Q133873038
6	Andy Lopez	victim of 2013 shooting by police officer	male	2000-06-02	2013-10-22			Q65659045
7	Anne Wortham	American sociologist (born 1941)	female	1941-11-26		Jackson	sociologist university teacher	Q63435838
8	Annie E. Brown	(1862-1918) Methodist Episcopal evangelist and missionary	female	1862	1918		missionary	Q98530967
9	Anthony Lamar Smith	victim of 2011 police shooting	male	1987-05-19	2011-12-20			Q64826759
10	Apolinar Salcedo Caicedo	Colombian lawyer	male	1955-02-22		El Cerrito	lawyer	Q5701515
11	Archibald J. Carey, Sr.	activist, writer and religious leader (1868-1931)	male	1868-08-25	1931-03-23	Atlanta	preacher political activist	Q65658401
12	Arnold Bennett Donawa	(1895-1966) Trinidad-born dental surgeon and Spanish Civil War veteran	male	1895-12-10	1966-01-19	Trinidad	oral and maxillofacial surgeon	Q115098352
13	Arthur McDuffie	period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida	male	1946-12-03	1979-12-21			Q4799689
14	Arthur W. Lewis	American naval officer and diplomat (1926-2019)	male	1926	2019		naval officer diplomat	Q116679887
15	Arthur Woodley	American opera singer	male	1949	2020-11-20	New York City	musician singer	Q63430480
16	Azellia Jones White	pilot	female	1913-06-03	2019-09-15		aircraft pilot	Q135153029
17	Beatrice Coleman	civil right activist	female	1908-06-05	1982-07	Lewiston	activist	Q135207647
18	Beatrice Welters	American ambassador and board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago	female	1951			diplomat	Q112035793
19	Benjamin M. Holmes	American teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer (1846-1875)	male	1846	1875-10-09	Charleston	teacher journalist singer	Q116362211
20	Bill Daye	African American lacrosse player (1981- )	male	1981			lacrosse player	Q115122276
21	Bob Bailey	American entertainer, businessman, and civil rights activist	male	1927-02-14	2014-05-24	Detroit	television personality businessperson civil rights advocate	Q105716947
22	C. Payne Lucas	U.S. Peace Corps official and founder of Africare	male	1933-09-14	2018-09-15			Q64021438
23	Camille Thierry	1814-1875 , poet	male	1814	1875	New Orleans	poet	Q55720667
24	Carlos Alcis	(1970-2013) Carlos Alcis was a 43-year-old father of eight, who was scared to death, and suffered an apparent heart attack when police forced their way into his Brooklyn, New York home, searching for a robbery suspect. Carlos Alcis was born in H	male	1970	2013	Haiti		Q98534546
25	Charleena Lyles	Charleena Lyles (1987-2017) was 30 years old and a mother of four who was shot and killed by Seattle Police on June 18, 2017.	female	1987	2017-06-18			Q63806889
26	Charles A. Davis	African-American journalist, public relations agent, real estate developer and civic leader (1922–2016)	male	1922-09-29	2016-06-12	Mobile	journalist real estate developer community leader	Q116616270
27	Charles B. Bell Jr.	mathematician	male	1928-08-20	2010-10-26	New Orleans	mathematician university teacher	Q98529673
28	Charles Decatur Brooks	field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church (1939-1979)	male	1930-07-24	2016	Greensboro	pastor	Q115463999
29	Charles James	American lawyer and diplomat	male	1922-06-06	2006	Washington, D.C.	lawyer diplomat	Q47087116
30	Charles Kenyatta	(1921-2005) organizer of the Harlem Mau Mau Society and Malcolm X’s body guard	male	1921-02-20	2005	Boston	bodyguard orator activist	Q98534656
31	Charles Leander Hill	African American philosopher	male	1906-07-28	1956-12-08	Urbana	philosopher	Q113765772
32	Charles Smith, Jr.	African American shot by North Little Rock, Arkansas police officers (2000-2018)	male	2000	2018-01-07			Q115452030
33	Charles Tregenna	British novelist	male	1810	1878		novelist draper politician	Q64685941
34	Christian Taylor	19-year-old college student shot by Texas police officer Brad Miller on August 7, 2015	male	1995	2015-08-07			Q92918617
35	Claude Brunson	American physician (1958–)	male	1958		Auburn	anesthesiologist	Q135474954
36	Cliff Hooper, Sr.	American artist, activist, and community leader (1917-2001)	male	1917	2001	Evansville	artisan teacher activist community leader	Q115122420
37	Corey D. Flournoy	American agricultural educator (1974–)	male	1974		Chicago		Q135475042
38	Curtis Theophilus Hill, Jr.	prosecutor	male	1961-02-21		Elkhart	prosecutor	Q135189898
39	Cyril Michael	judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1898-1978)	male	1898-01-22	1978-03-05	Saint Thomas	judge	Q115977939
40	Daisy Lee Tibbs Dawson	a peace activist	female	1924-07-27	2013-05-26	Alabama	educator peace activist	Q135230096
41	Dale Brown Emeagwali	American microbiologist and cancer researcher	female	1954-12-24		Baltimore	microbiologist	Q22003841
42	Danny Scarborough	American choreographer and dancer (1947-1989)	male	1947-07-27	1989-05-10	Wake Forest	choreographer dancer playwright	Q98534672
43	David A. Clark Jr.	American sheriff (1956– ), sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin	male	1956		Milwaukee	sheriff	Q115990335
44	David B. Lewis	American judge, the first African American to serve on the Criminal Court of Appeals in Oklahoma	male	1956 1958-04-30		Ardmore	judge	Q116593463
45	David Fleming	(1962- ) brigadier general in the United States Army, the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Delaware National Guard	male	1962			soldier	Q63807025
46	DeAunta T. Farrow	(1994-2007) twelve-year-old African American boy killed by West Memphis, Arkansas Police Officer Erik Sammis on June 22, 2007	male	1994-09-07	2007-06-22	West Memphis		Q115452289
47	Deion Fludd	American teenager (1996-2013)	male	1996	2013-07-12			Q116615832
48	Derrick Jones	(1983-2010) African American shot and killed by Oakland Police Department officers on November 8, 2010	male	1983	2010-11-08		barber	Q115452545
49	Deton Brooks	African American war correspondent (1909-1975)	male	1909-01-14	1975	Chicago	journalist	Q98532523
50	Dexter Dillard Eure Sr.	American journalist (1924-2015), pioneering black newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe	male	1924	2015	Suffolk	journalist	Q116615372
51	Didier Yapi	Ivorian information technology inventor and researcher (1976-2015)	male	1976	2015-04-06	Gôh-Djiboua District	inventor computer scientist	Q115977956
52	Donald G. Phelps	American educator (1929-2003)	male	1929-07-22	2003-07-05	Seattle	academic administrator pundit university teacher	Q114151891
53	E. Arnold Bertonneau	(1834-1912) New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and one of the first African American participants in Louisiana’s Reconstruction period	male	1834	1912	New Orleans	wine trader soldier	Q115098327
54	E. Russell “Noodles” Smith	(? – 1952) Seattle nightclub owner	male				nightclub owner	Q115098425
55	Eddie E. Marcy	(1919–2016) "Image Ownership: Public Domain" Eddie Marcy was a member of the support staff of the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. Marcy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 13, 1919, to Arthur and Callie Marcy. His parents moved to Big S	male	1919-06-13	2016-03-26	Birmingham		Q130757860
56	Edward L. Miles	oceanographer	male	1939-12-12	2016-05-07	Trinidad	oceanographer	Q104886756
57	Edward W. Guinn	politician	male	1925	2018-08-28	Fort Worth	politician	Q135207534
58	Edwin C. “Bill” Berry	American civil rights activist	male	1910-11-11	1987-03-14	Oberlin	civil rights advocate	Q116299127
59	Eldridge F. Williams	African American airman (1917-2015), one of the first trainers of Tuskegee Airmen	male	1917-11-02	2015-07-02	Washington County	airman	Q116679367
60	Eliza Ann Dixon Day	( ? – 1800’s) A member of the John Street Methodist Church and founding member of the A.M.E. Zion Church in New York City, Eliza Day combined religious devotion with abolitionist politics. Day was an active abolitionist who established a patter	female	1795				Q121302211
61	Elizabeth Mason Harden Gilmore	entrepreneur	female	1910-08-11	1986-04-08	Charleston		Q135184053
62	Ellis Cose	American journalist and writer (born 195_)	male	1951-02-20 1952-02-20			journalist	Q63442100
63	Ernest “Rip” Patton	(1940– ) African American civil rights activist	male	1940		Nashville	civil rights advocate	Q63807701
64	Errol R. Schwartz	American military officer (1952- ), the first black adjutant general for the District of Columbia	male	1952		Georgetown	military officer	Q115145832
65	Eshetu Chole	Ethiopian economist (1945-1998)	male	1945	1998-06-18	Nairobi	economist	Q115647508
66	Eugene Moszee	civil right activist	male	1914	1945-11-13 1945-11-15	Floresville	business	Q135195328
67	Eugene Orr	African American LDS activist (1946– )	male	1946-03-16		Ashburn	activist naturopath	Q115098289
68	Eunice Gray Smith	Human computer for NASA	female	1923-12-31	2006-06-19	Portsmouth	mathematician	Q63968107
69	Eustace Augustus Dixon, II	Eustace A. Dixon II (1934-2000), 20th century author and environmental health advocate, was born at home in Brooklyn, New York on July 9, 1934. He was the youngest child of Eustace A. Dixon, a native of Jamaica and Beulah Talbot, a native of Bermuda.	male	1934-07-09	2000	Brooklyn	writer	Q63825506
70	Fatima Djalor	activist	female	1989	2019-02-12	Chișinău	activist	Q135152599
71	Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh	chief	male	1912-07-18	2016-01-15	Warri		Q134981418
72	Fillmore Freeman	chemistry professor	male	1936-04		Lexington	chemist	Q112579756
73	Fordie Ross	business man	male	1914-04-21	2014-06-30	Tishomingo	business	Q134983598
74	Forrest Oran Wiggins	African American philosopher (1907-1982), the first African American to teach at University of Minnesota	male	1907	1982	Vincennes	academic philosopher	Q115098712
75	Frederick Flemister	painter	male	1917-02-05	1976-02-29	Jackson	painter soldier	Q65658684
76	Frederick McDonald Massiah	African American civil engineer and construction contractor (1886–1975)	male	1886	1975		civil engineer building contractor	Q115098306
77	Garry C. Dean	(?- ) American Air Force Major General, Oregon’s first African American two-star	male				air force officer	Q115098731
78	George B. Anderson	African American jockey	male				jockey	Q115413997
79	George Goldsby	(1843-1922) veteran of the Union Army and a sergeant in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry (“buffalo soldiers”)	male	1843	1922		soldier	Q115120277
80	George Henry Brown, Jr.	American judge (1939- ), the first African American appointed to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court	male	1939-07-16			judge	Q115145768
81	George Morrison	Jazz bandleader	male	1891-09-09	1974-11-05	Fayette	musician	Q129437760
82	George Patrick Alphonse Forde	physician active in Texas, United States (1882–1967)	male	1882-09	1967-03-15	Barbados	physician	Q135473483
83	George S. Jeffrey	(1830-1906) barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, one of the most important African American political figures in late 19th Century Connecticut	male	1830	1906		barber community leader	Q98529852
84	George Washington Biggs	army	male	1925-07-02	2020-09-19	Nogales Municipality		Q135195564
85	Gilbert Haven Jones	African American philosopher and psychologist	male	1881-08-21	1966	Fort Motte	philosopher psychologist	Q63430510
86	Godwin O. Ajala	lawyer	male	1968-06-09	2001-09-16 2001-09-15	Nigeria	lawyer	Q134930290
87	Gordon Alexander McHenry	engineer (1921-2001)	male	1921-03-06	2001-05-19	Tyler	engineer	Q104889500
88	Gregory Gunn	African American man (1958-2016) shot dead by a Montgomery, Alabama police officer in front of his home	male	1958	2016-02-25			Q116360118
89	Hale Giddings Parker	American lawyer and political activist	male	1851	1925	Ripley	lawyer	Q104193166
90	Hamel Hartford Brookins	American minister, civil rights activist and bishop (1926 – )	male	1926			Christian minister civil rights advocate	Q115462076
91	Harold M. Kingsley	American Congregational minister and political activist	male	1887	1970	Mobile	Christian minister activist	Q115977973
92	Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr.	(1918-1998) In the post-World War II years Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr. paved the way for African American businessmen in corporate America. As one of the first black executives for a major American company, Russell made a name as a trailblazer an	male	1918	1998	Louisville	business executive	Q98531090
93	Henry Binga Dismond	American athlete, medical device inventor, pioneering physician and poet (1891-1956)	male	1891-12-27	1956	Richmond	athlete inventor physician poet athletics competitor writer	Q115664930
94	Henry Glover	(1974-2005) African American resident of Algiers, New Orleans murdered by a New Orleans Police officer	male	1974	2005-09-02			Q115452234
95	Henry Wadsworth McGee Sr.	first African American Postmaster of a major postal facility (1910-2000)	male	1910	2000-03-18	Hillsboro	postmaster	Q116299058
96	Herbert T. Miller	religious leader	male	1900-07-16	1977-01-19	Kentucky	religious leader	Q135221190
97	Homer L. Garrott	first African American California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer (1915-1998)	male	1915	1998	Los Angeles	police officer	Q115095316
98	Honorae Alfred Glascor	American judge (1914-2011) one of Franklin County, Ohio’s first African American judges	male	1914-01-15	2011-10-20	Augusta	judge	Q98534407
99	Howard Venable	ophthalmologist (1913-1998)	male	1913-01-27	1998-08-08	Windsor	ophthalmologist	Q98583242
100	Hylan Garnet Lewis	American sociologist	male	1911-04-04	2000-03-08	Washington, D.C.	sociologist university teacher	Q65658495
101	Iman Kerigo	Norwegian beauty contestant, the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss Norway in 2010	female	1992		Kenya	beauty pageant contestant	Q115647482
102	Inez Maxine Pitter Haynes	nurse	female	1919-02-06		Seattle	nurse university teacher	Q134989736
103	Ira B. Bryant, Jr.	educator, author, researcher and administrator	male	1904-10-18	1989-12-16	Crockett	educator writer researcher administrator	Q64826694
104	Irvin Hicks	American ambassador (1938- )	male	1938-03-16		Baltimore	ambassador	Q116679343
105	Isaac Dickerson	American singer and preacher (1850/1852–1900)	male	1852	1900		singer preacher	Q18529166
106	Ivan J. Houston	American businessman and author	male	1925-06-15	2020-03-01	Los Angeles	businessperson writer	Q105697016
107	J. R. Todd	American drag racer and crew chief	male	1981-12-16		Lawrenceburg	racing automobile driver	Q98583199
108	Jack Daniels Holsclaw	pilot	male	1918-03-21	1998-04-07	Spokane	aircraft pilot	Q135230749
109	Jack Turner	1840?–19 August 1882 , political activist and party organizer, martyr and lynching victim	male		1882-08-19		event producer politician	Q63166276
110	Jackson L. Davis III	US military officer, Brigadier General in the Air National Guard (1944- )	male	1944			military officer	Q115115038
111	Jacob Clement White Sr	Philadelphia entrepreneur and abolitionist (1806–1872)	male	1806-03	1872	Philadelphia	entrepreneur abolitionist	Q116677373
112	James B. McMillan	American dentist and civil rights activist (1917-1999)	male	1917-01-14	1999-03-20	Aberdeen	dentist	Q63433633
113	James Lionel Tolbert	James Lionel Tolbert (1926-2013) is an American civil rights advocate and entertainment attorney. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 26, 1926 to Albert Tolbert and Alice Young Tolbert. His father was a chauffeur and his mo	male	1926-10-26	2013	New Orleans	lawyer	Q63824444
114	James P. Thomas	African American barber and businessperson (1827-1913)	male	1827	1913	Nashville	entrepreneur barber	Q63430266
115	James T. Whitehead, Jr.	first African American Lockheed U2 pilot	male	1934		Jersey City		Q98583522
116	James Tyson Tildon	American chemist (1931-2006)	male	1931	2006		chemist	Q98531179
117	James Williams	fugitive slave in Gold Rush California and autobiographical writer (1825–after 1873)	male	1825-04-01		Elkton	writer	Q116603575
118	Jehu Jones	American tailor (1769-1833)	male	1769	1833	Charleston	tailor	Q135473469
119	Jennie Eva Hughes Smith	the first african american to graduate from university of idaho	female	1879-07-20	1939-08-19	Washington, D.C.		Q135267345
120	Jocko Graves	African American boy and American Revolutionary War soldier, said to be the inspiration for the "lawn jockey"	male	1764	1776		soldier	Q63823690
121	Jocques Clemmons	(1985-2017) African American shot dead by white Nashville, Tennessee police officer Joshua Lippert	male	1985-03-30	2017-02-10	Nashville		Q115452608
122	Joe Travis	enslaved person, survivor of the Battle of Alamo (c.1815- ?)	male	1815		Mount Sterling		Q116615564
123	John Albert Holmes, Jr.	disc jockey	male	1912-07-01	1987-12-09	Merchantville		Q135216482
124	John Baldwin West	fiction writer	male	1905-03-06	1960-02-22	Washington, D.C.	writer	Q135221275
125	John Brown	(1830-1900) Born into slavery about January 1830, John Brown was owned by a leading Southampton County, Virginia planter named Robert Ridley. When Ridley died in 1852, Brown’s wife (whose name is unknown), two daughters and one brother were sold an	male	1830	1900			Q98583239
126	John Campbell Dancy Jr.	1888-1968 , Detroit Urban League executive director	male	1888	1968-09-10		executive	Q55720790
127	John Henry Jordan	American physician (1870-1912), the first black doctor in Coweta County, Georgia	male	1870-03-11	1912	Troup County	physician	Q116678620
128	John Henry “Doc” Hamilton	(1891-1942) Doc Hamilton, born John Henry Hamilton in 1891, was a famous Seattle prohibition-era club owner. Originally from West Point, Mississippi, he moved to Seattle at the age of 23. Hamilton served in World War I in the famous 92nd infantry div	male	1891	1942	West Point	nightclub owner	Q115098615
129	John K. Haynes, Jr.	American molecular biologist	male	1943-10-30		Monroe	molecular biologist	Q64513831
130	John Lee Love	African American inventor, inventor of the “Love Sharpener” hand-cranked pencil sharpener	male	1889	1931		inventor	Q21965926
131	John Melvin Jones	American diplomat (1944-), appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008	male	1944		Detroit	diplomat	Q115497501
132	John N. Conna	(1836-1921) John Newington Conna was a pivotal figure in the early history and development of Washington State. Born enslaved near San Augustine, Texas in 1836, Conna was a free man by the time of the Civil War because he served in the 1st Louisiana	male	1836	1921			Q98529425
133	John Ralph Lyons	American soldier and barber (1888-1941)	male	1888-02-22	1941-03-16	Lewistown	soldier barber	Q115990022
134	John Thomas King	African American architect; born in Girard (now Phenix City), Alabama. Son of Horace King. (1846–1926)	male	1846	1926	Girard	architect	Q111685991
135	John Wallace	(1925-1992) Medical researcher John Wallace was born March 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Howard University in 1947 with an honors bachelors in zoology. Originally, he was going to enroll at a medical student at Meharry Medical Co	male	1925	1992			Q98531136
136	Johnny Robinson	sixteen-year-old African-American man (1947-1963), shot and killed by Birmingham, Alabama police officer Jack Parker on September 15, 1963	male	1947	1963-09-15			Q115977969
137	Jordan Russell Davis	(1995-2012) murder victim	male	1995	2012			Q102117706
138	Joseph Charles Jenkins	American naval officer (1914-1959), the first African American naval officer	male	1914	1959	Detroit	naval officer	Q115098122
139	Joseph Huggins	American diplomat (1951- ), Ambassador to Botswana	male	1951			diplomat	Q115098309
140	Joseph S. Himes	American sociologist	male	1908-04-05	1992	United States Jefferson City	sociologist university teacher	Q112545452
141	Joseph Savary	Saint-Domingue-born hero at Battle of New Orleans (? — 1800’s)	male			Saint-Domingue	soldier	Q116677578
142	Josephine Ebaugh Jones	American community activist and business executive (1920-2017), who may have been the first black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company	female	1920-07-30	2017-12-10	Cross Hill	community organizer business executive	Q98531115
143	Joshua Rose	American local politician (1906-1987), first black city councilman in Oakland, California	male	1906-09-11	1987	Lexington	local politician	Q115496344
144	Juan Beltrán de Magaña	black conquistador of Chile	male	1537	1578	Sigüenza	conquistador page	Q5947901
145	Judson Frazier Eneas	physician	male	1947-04-18		Nassau	physician	Q135216303
146	Kenia Martinez	Honduran beauty queen (1988– ), Miss Universe Honduras in 2010	female	1988			beauty queen	Q115988655
147	King Daniel Ganaway	American photographer (1882–1944)	male	1882-10-22	1944-03-16	Rutherford County	photographer	Q109653277
148	Kirke Smith	American school superintendent and ordained minister (1865-1935)	male	1865-07-22	1935	Montgomery County	school superintendent Christian minister	Q98529850
149	Kiwane Albert Carrington	victim of 2009 shooting by police	male	1994-07-14	2009-10-09	Champaign		Q65658978
150	La David Terrence Johnson	African American Army Sergeant and vehicle mechanic (1992-2017), killed in the Tongo Tongo Ambush on October 4, 2017	male	1992	2017-10-04		soldier mechanic	Q98583504
151	Larry R. Jordan	American army officer and businessman (1946-)	male	1946-02-07		Kansas City	military officer businessperson	Q115122405
152	Lasker Bell	television and radio host	male	1928-05-21	2016-09-12	Homer	television presenter radio personality sharecropper	Q115220243
153	Lee Frank Hagan	American professor and academic administrator (1945-1986)	male	1945-07-28	1986	Brunswick	professor academic administrator	Q98531892
154	Leonard H. O. Spearman	(1929-2008) U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda and Lesotho. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929.	male	1929-07-08	2008	Tallahassee	diplomat	Q115098310
155	Leslie Brennan Rout, Jr.	(1935-1987) Latin American history professor, jazz musician, and author	male	1935-02-26	1987		musician historian	Q115097707
156	Livingston Wingate	(1915-1995) Livingston Leroy Wingate was a Harlem civic leader and a state supreme court judge in Manhattan, New York. Wingate was born on September 2, 1915 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, a small town of two thousand residents. Wingate lived	male	1915-09-02	1995	Timmonsville	judge	Q98530584
157	Lois Jean White	first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (born 1938)	female	1938-03-21		Nashville	flautist volunteer	Q115668792
158	Lonnie E. Smith	American dentist and civil rights activist	male	1901	1971-03-06	Yoakum	dentist civil rights advocate	Q104203653
159	Louis E. Sturns	American judge (1949- ), the first African American to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	male	1949-08-06		Henderson	judge	Q115122825
160	Louisa Burr	daughter of Aaron Burr (178_-1878)	female	1780s	1878			Q112239632
161	Louise Jones McKinney	philanthropist and a business woman	female	1920-07-12	2012-08-15	Cleveland	business	Q134983314
162	Lucia Lynn Moses	American actress (1908-1984)	female	1908-12-23	1984 1984-10	Washington, D.C.	actor	Q63381148
163	Luther Ambrose Goodwin	American airman, civil rights activist, and attorney (1920-1982)	male	1920-04-17	1982	Jacksonville	airman civil rights advocate lawyer	Q115464139
164	Lutrelle Horne	American producer (193?- ), who worked for Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Shop)	male			Newport News	television producer	Q115098015
165	Lydia Teresa Sims	civil right leader	female	1920-11-18	2012-06-23	New Jersey		Q135205686
166	Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr.	American historian, professor, publisher, and academic administrator (1943-2015)	male	1943-07-04	2015-10-11	Norfolk, Virginia	historian	Q63807180
167	Mahlon Martin	American public administrator (1945–1995)	male	1945-07-19	1995-08-31		city manager	Q135475062
168	Marcia A. Santacruz Palacios	human rights activist and political scientist (1977–)	female	1977			activist political scientist	Q116365324
169	Marion Antoinette Richards Myles	scientist with expertise in plant physiology (1917-1969)	female	1917	1969-10-18	Philadelphia	scientist	Q98583515
170	Marquette Frye		male	1944	1986-12-20	Oklahoma		Q134087339
171	Marva Weatherborn	Guatemalan beauty pageant contestant, the first black Miss Guatemala and 2004 Miss Universe contestant	female	1983-06-02		Puerto Barrios	beauty pageant contestant beauty queen	Q63797083
172	Marva Wright Urena	Costa Rican beauty pageant contestant, the first Miss Costa Rica of African ancestry (1986-)	female	1986			beauty pageant contestant	Q63806630
173	Marvin Ellison	American business executive and CEO of Lowe's	male	1787		Haywood County	chief executive officer	Q22279080
174	Mary Elizabeth Williams	American singer	female	1977		Philadelphia	opera singer	Q51841730
175	Matthew Cherry	American inventor (1834- ?), inventor of the tricycle	male	1834-02-05		Washington, D.C.		Q115122382
176	Mentis Carrere	American housing activist, novelist, and painter		1891-12-09	1989-03-07	Louisiana	writer technical director	Q134549629
177	Michael R. Hollis	(1953–2012) Atlanta attorney and founder in 1984 of one of the earliest black-owned airlines, Air Atlanta	male	1953-10-22	2012		businessperson	Q115098143
178	Michael Stewart	American graffiti artist (1958-1983)	male	1958-05-09	1983-09-28	Brooklyn	graffiti artist	Q6834629
179	Miles K. Davis	African American educator (1960-), president of Linfield College	male	1960		Philadelphia	educator academic administrator	Q115122370
180	Miles Mark Fisher	American historian, educator and clergyman	male	1899	1970		historian educator Christian cleric	Q94368045
181	Mingo Sanders	First Sergeant Mingo Sanders (1857-1929) is best known as one of the leading figures in the Brownsville Affray in Brownsville, Texas in 1906. Sanders was a career soldier.	male	1857	1929		soldier	Q63824542
182	Myles Anderson Paige	American judge (1898-1983), the first African American to be appointed a New York City Criminal Court Judge	male	1898-07-18	1983	Montgomery	judge	Q115664952
183	Nate Long	filmmaker	male	1930	2002-11-14	Philadelphia	filmmaker stunt performer	Q135189679
184	Nathan Wright	American activist and Black Power advocate (1923-2005)	male	1923-08-05	2005	Shreveport	activist	Q115497837
185	Ned Coll	(1940- ) Edward T. “Ned” Coll is a civil rights activist and one time (1972) presidential candidate from Connecticut known for taking on the privatized and segregated beaches along the Connecticut coast in the 1970s. Born in 1940, he gre	male	1940			civil rights advocate	Q98534664
186	Nedd James Johnson, Sr.	(1960- ) New Jersey educator	male	1960-03-01			educator	Q115114914
187	Noah W. Griffin	African American educator (1896–1974)	male	1896	1974-08-17	Columbia County	head teacher professor Field secretary	Q135490084
188	Noah W. Griffin	American lawyer and artist (1946–)	male	1946		San Francisco	lawyer writer historian singer	Q137636611
189	Norm Allen	American writer and secular humanist advocate (1957–)	male	1957-11-12		Pittsburgh	writer	Q135475008
190	Okah Tubbee	freedman, author of a narrative of slavery		1810		Natchez	memoirist musician	Q138857965
191	Orlando Ashford	American businessman (1968– ), president of Holland America Line	male	1968		Bangor	businessperson	Q116615799
192	Orlando Barlow	victim of 2003 police shooting	male	1974	2003-02-28			Q65658816
193	Oscar DuConge	mayor	male	1909-04-19	1978-07-26	Pass Christian	mayor	Q135207566
194	Oscar W. Holden, Jr.	(1887-1969) Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians. Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from th	male	1887	1969	Nashville	jazz musician	Q115098575
195	Otey Matthew Scruggs	historian, athlete, and a professor	male	1929-06-29	2014-02-14	Vallejo	professor historian athlete	Q135222133
196	Owen Monconduit	American army officer (1961- ), the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Louisiana National Guard	male	1961		Pineville	military officer	Q115243953
197	Perry Watkins	American set and lighting designer (1907-1974)	male	1907-04-13	1974-08-14	Providence	scenographer lighting designer	Q133876985
198	Peter Davis	American music teacher (1887?-1971), music teacher of Louis Armstrong	male	1880s 1887-10-25	1971-04-29	New Orleans	music educator	Q116601636
199	Peter Hill	African American clockmaker (1767–1820)	male	1767-07-19	1820-12	Burlington Township	clockmaker handicrafter	Q89583345
200	Petra Hoost	first Afro-Dutch woman to win the Miss Netherlands pageant in 1996	female	1976-01-16				Q121302241
201	Pierre Réjon	France's first black pilot	male	1895-06-29	1920-08-15	Martinique	aircraft pilot	Q63797036
202	Preston Wilcox	human rights activist and professor (1923-2006)	male	1923	2006-08-12		professor human rights defender	Q63381202
203	Ralph Melvin Wimbish	(1922-1967) St. Petersburg, Florida-based African American physician	male	1922	1967		physician	Q115120333
204	Ramón Durem	(1915-1963) Spanish Civil War veteran and militant poet	male	1915	1963	Seattle	poet	Q115098403
205	Rance Lee Allen	artist	male	1948-11-20	2020-10-31	Monroe	performing artist	Q135016913
206	Rasheed Storey	factory worker	male	1936-02-21	2016-08-23	Philadelphia	factory worker	Q135216685
207	Raymond Harold Boone	Virginia journalist (1938–2014)	male	1938-02-02	2014	Suffolk	journalist	Q116676880
208	Rayshard Brooks	American man shot dead in 2020 by police in Atlanta, Georgia, United States	male	1993-01-31	2020-06-12			Q96316275
209	Reginald Doucet	African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency	male	1985-06-03	2011-01-14	Prunedale		Q115452359
210	Renty B. Franklin	physiologist	male	1945-09-02		Birmingham	physiologist	Q64513729
211	Reynaldo Cuevas	(1992-2012) grocery worker shot dead by an NYPD officer after an armed robbery at the grocery where he worked	male	1992-01-06	2012	Dominican Republic		Q116322068
212	Richard I. McKinney	(born 1906)	male	1906	2005			Q63381168
213	Richard Lee Davis	American historian of China (born 1951?)	male	1951			historian	Q115645165
214	Richard Williams	African American emigrant to the USSR	male					Q98583514
215	Robert Ambrose Thornton	American physicist and university administrator (1902-1982)	male	1902-05-06	1982	Houston	physicist academic administrator	Q115497759
216	Robert Bogle	African American caterer in Philadelphia (1774-1848)	male	1774	1848		cook	Q115413909
217	Robert C. Perry	American diplomat and ambassador	male	1945		Durham	diplomat	Q64826736
218	Robert Earl Gray	(1941-2011) Lieutenant General Robert Earl Gray was the first African American to become the Commanding General of the United States Army Signal Corps and the first African American Commander of Fort Gordon, Georgia, which conducts advanced traini	male	1941	2011		soldier	Q63807062
219	Robert Hickman	American Reverend, founder of Pilgrim Baptist Church	male	1831	1900-02-06	Missouri	pastor	Q21554170
220	Robert Kent Trench	botanist	male	1940			botanist	Q21610947
221	Robert Louis Shepard	American author and chemist (1947- )	male	1947-12-25		Raleigh	chemist writer	Q115145733
222	Roger Sauvage	(1917-1977) French aviator	male	1917-03-26	1977-09-26	20th arrondissement of Paris	aircraft pilot	Q3439445
223	Ronald Waters	American political scientist and civil rights activist (1938-2010)	male	1938-07-20	2010	Wichita	political scientist civil rights advocate	Q116677396
224	Rosalie Reddick Miller	dentist	female	1925-12-29		Waycross	dentist	Q134989514
225	Ruffin Bridgeforth	president of the Genesis Group and priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1923–1997)	male	1923-03-18	1997	Melville	priest	Q115098290
226	Rufus Smith	American military officer (19?- ), the first African American to be appointed a General in the Ohio National Guard	male				military officer	Q115145848
227	Ruth Dorothea Kennedy Ellington	musician	female	1915-07-02	2004-03-06	Washington, D.C.	singer	Q135113999
228	Sait Sökmen	Afro-Turkish choreographer, dancer, instructor, and talent agent	male	1942			choreographer	Q6087164
229	Sambo Anderson	slave on George Washington's Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon	male		1845-02-20			Q56416058
230	Samuel Bruce	African American airman in the 99th Pursuit Squadron (1915–1944)	male	1915-12-07	1944-01-27	Houston	airman	Q116678637
231	Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.	American development specialist and diplomat	male	1920-08-15	2001-08-02	Waco	diplomat	Q28843744
232	Samuel Eugene Kelly	American soldier and educator (1926-2009)	male	1926-01-26	2009	Greenwich	soldier educator	Q116679863
233	Samuel Robert Cassius	born 1853; died 1931	male	1853	1931-08-10		opinion journalist evangelist	Q63409963
234	Sean Bell	African American man shot and killed by NYPD police officers (1983–2006)	male	1983-05-18	2006-11-25		electrician	Q1363921
235	Sebastián Rodríguez Brito	(c.1642-c.1717) Native of West Africa, Sebastian Rodríguez Brito was one of a number of black freemen to join the ranks of the Spanish military during the time of the colonization of what is to	male			Guinea	soldier	Q63770306
236	Shantel Davis	(1989-2012) African-American woman fatally shot by NYPD officer Phil Atkins	female	1989	2012-06-14			Q115452168
237	Sharmel Edwards	African-American woman (1962-2012), fatally shot by five Las Vegas, Nevada police officers on April 21, 2012	female	1962	2012-04-21			Q98583508
238	Shereese Francis	American woman (1982-2012) suffocated and murdered in 2012 by four New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in her Rochdale, Queen family home	female	1982	2012			Q115145860
239	Sidney Barthwell	American pharmacist (1906–2005)	male	1906-02-17	2005-06-25	Cordele	pharmacist	Q135475085
240	Simeon Lewis Carson	American physician (1882–1954)	male	1882	1954		physician	Q98534661
241	Solomon Melvin Coles	American minister, educator, and community leader (1844-1924)	male	1844	1924	Petersburg	Christian minister educator community leader	Q116360824
242	Sylvanus Smith	(1831–1911) free black Brooklynite who promoted and protected racial equality, business ownership, and property development	male	1831	1911-09-17		businessperson community leader farmer	Q115098298
243	Sylville Smith	African American man (1993-2016) shot dead by Dominique Heaggan-Brown, an African-American police officer in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Police Department	male	1993-04-11	2016-08-13	Milwaukee		Q98583502
244	T. Arnold Hill	American activist (1888-1947), early leader of the National Urban League	male	1888	1947	Richmond	activist	Q94280484
245	Tai Jimenez		female	1970				Q133873027
246	Tamon Robinson	(1985-2012) African American man killed by two unnamed NYPD officers at the Bayview Housing Project in Canarsie, Brooklyn	male	1985	2012-04-12			Q115452092
247	Tarika Wilson	African-American woman fatally shot by police (1981-2008)	female	1981	2008-01-04			Q115145887
248	Theodore Browne	playwright and actor (1910–1979)		1910	1979	Suffolk	playwright actor novelist	Q105826481
249	Thomas Calhoun Walker	American teacher, lawyer, and government official (1862-1953)	male	1862	1953		teacher lawyer civil servant	Q63409980
250	Thomas Detter	African-American writer, activist, minister, doctor, and businessman (c.1829 - 1891)	male	1821			Christian minister activist businessperson physician novelist	Q93096283
251	Thomas Molyneux	African American boxer (1784–1818)	male	1784	1818		boxer	Q115461977
252	Timothy DeWayne Thomas, Jr.	unarmed African American man who was killed by the Cincinnati Police Department	male	1981-07-25	2001-04-07	Cincinnati		Q104203608
253	Timothy Russell	Afro-American male who was a victim of police violence in the United States	male	1968-12-09	2012-11-29	Cleveland		Q105596484
254	Toby Joseph Cotton, Jr.	foot racer	male	1913-03-02	1978-07-20	Louisiana		Q135114476
255	Tomie Louis Gaines	African American soldier, truck driver and painter (1922–2016), who served in the early twentieth century with the last of the Buffalo Soldiers	male	1922-11-03	2016	Hartwell	soldier truck driver painter	Q115098293
256	Toussaint Tourgee Tildon	1893-1964 , physician and psychiatrist	male	1893-04-05	1964		psychiatrist physician	Q55720064
257	Vasco De Gama Hale	American educator, blinded veterans’ association organizer, and NAACP official (1915-2002)	male	1915-02-16	2002	Crawford	educator activist	Q115097733
258	Viola Mitchell Turner	(1900-1988) Image Courtesy of the Pauli Murray Project Viola Mitchell Turner, an early black executive with North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1900. The only child of poor, impoverished, teenage African Am	female	1900	1988			Q130757866
259	Vivian O. Lee	(1938- ) Vivian O’Dell Lee, a native of Spring, Texas, is the youngest child of Alvirita and Arthur Booker. She was born on January 28, 1938. Growing up, Lee traveled extensively with her mother and stepfather, US Master Sergeant Frank Little, to A	female	1938-01-28		Spring	nurse	Q98534229
260	Véronique de la Cruz	French model	female	1974-11-03		Saint-François	model beauty pageant contestant	Q2367597
261	W. Augustus Low	American author, historian (1916–1988)	male	1916-05-17	1988-04-01		writer historian professor	Q116980065
262	Wabeladio Payi	Congolese teacher	male	1957-01-15	2013-04-04	Ngombe Lutete	teacher	Q16269525
263	Walt Bachman	American historian and author	male				historian non-fiction writer lawyer	Q125650350
264	Walter F. Anderson	American classical pianist		1915-05-12	2003-11-24	Zanesville	classical pianist organist composer jazz musician community organizer academician	Q125709964
265	Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick	Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick (1894-1953), prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania physician and founder of The Pyramid Club was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, on March 21, 1894. He attended the public schools there unt	male	1894-03-21	1953		physician	Q63825187
266	Walter J. Whitfield	American military officer (1948- ), the first African American General in the Army National Guard	male	1948			military officer	Q115122477
267	Walter L. Wallace	American sociologist	male	1927	2015		sociologist university teacher	Q109833674
268	Walter Scott	American man fatally shot in 2015 by police in North Charleston, South Carolina	male	1965-02-09	2015-04-04	No/unknown value	victim	Q19788938
269	Warren H. Wheeler	American aviator and businessman (1943– ), owner of Wheeler Flying Service (Wheeler Airlines)	male	1943-10-01		Durham	aircraft pilot businessperson	Q115683972
270	Wayne L. Black	Brigadier General and Assistant Adjutant General of the Indiana Army National Guard (1962?- )	male				military officer	Q115122394
271	Wendell James Allen	victim of 2012 shooting by police officer	male	1992	2012-03-07			Q65657992
272	Willard Johnson Sr.	(1901-1969) Willard Johnson, bacteriologist, science educator, business proprietor, was born in Leavenworth Kansas, the third of the eleven children of Joseph Johnson and Hattie McClanahan. Taught by his high school’s founder, Blanche Kelso Bruce,	male	1901	1969	Leavenworth	bacteriologist	Q115098681
273	William G. Mays	American business executive	male	1946 1945-12-04	2014	Indiana Evansville	business executive entrepreneur philanthropist community leader	Q115932536
274	William H. Brisby	(1836–1916)	male				politician	Q130929123
275	William Harry Barnes	American physician, otolaryngologist (1887–1945)	male	1887-04-04	1945-01-15	Philadelphia	otolaryngologist physician	Q55720056
276	William Jones	(1918-2009) American soldier and entrepreneur, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers	male	1918	2009	Jefferson County	soldier	Q115114927
277	William P. Powell Jr.	African-American physician (1834–1915)	male	1834	1915	Bedford	physician surgeon	Q63101518
278	Wilson “Ducktail” Alexander, Sr.	(1919-1950) US Marine, baseball player and baseball manager	male	1919	1950	St. Mary Parish	baseball player baseball manager soldier	Q98532673
279	Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh	Cameroonian feminist blogger	female	1985			activist reporter	Q111317442

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