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Famous African American doctors
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Famous African American senators
Famous African American Inventors
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James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. He was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Who is James McCune Smith
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Deborrah Kaye "Debbie" Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Who is Debbie Allen
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he was one of the most popular entertainers in the world, and was the best-selling music artist during the year of his death.
Who is Michael Jackson
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Who is Tim Scott

Timothy Eugene Scott is an American politician of the Republican Party serving as the junior U.S. Senator for South Carolina. He was appointed in 2013 by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to replace the retiring Jim DeMint.

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Who is George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver, was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion

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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American neurosurgeon, author, and politician who is the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under the Trump Administration.
who is Ben Carson
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Judith Ann Jamison is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Who is Judith Jamison
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child.
Who is Beyoncé
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Who is Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017

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Who is Lewis Howard Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and draftsman.

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Who is Cato T. Laurencin

Cato T. Laurencin, a professor and a surgeon, served as the Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Connecticut from 2008–2011.

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Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th
Who is Katherine Dunham
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Usher Raymond IV, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor. He was born in Dallas, Texas, but raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, Georgia.
who is Usher
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Who is Edward Brooke

Edward William Brooke III was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.

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Who is Garrett Morgan

Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an American inventor and community leader. He was the subject of a newspaper feature in Cleveland, Ohio, for a heroic rescue in 1916 of workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, 50 ft beneath Lake Erie

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Who is Samuel L. Kountz

r. Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. was an African-American kidney transplantation surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas

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Harold Lloyd Nicholas was an American dancer specializing in tap. He was the younger half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas.
Who is Harold Nicholas
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
Who is Aaliyah
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Who is Carol Moseley Braun

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun, is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.

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Who is Madam C. J. Walker


Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist.

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Charles Richard Drew was an American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert
Who is Charles R. Drew
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Carmen de Lavallade is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.
Who is Carmen de Lavallade
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Samuel George Davis Jr. was an American singer, dancer, actor and comedian. He was noted for his impressions of actors, musicians and other celebrities
Who is Sammy Davis Jr.
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Who is Roland Burris

Roland Wallace Burris is an American politician and attorney who is a former United States Senator from the state of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party

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Who is Elijah McCoy

Elijah J. McCoy was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines.