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Eartha Kitt was a singer and actress who recorded the hit holiday song “Santa Baby”. She was born on January 17, 1927 in South Carolina to an African American mother and a white father. She was raised by Anna Mae Riley, as her biological mother had abandoned her. It wasn’t until later

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(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”

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Tomlinson, Maurice (1971- )

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(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question,”

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Rhue, Sylvia (1947- )

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Nkom, Alice (1945- )

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