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11
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Clayton, Alonzo (1876–1917)
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11
1892
Morial, Ernest Nathan (1929-1989)
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Ross, Michael K. (1941-2007)
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Reconstruction of the South began with the
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BET Holdings, Inc. the parent company of Black Entertainment Television sells 4.
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Burns United Methodist Church (1866- )
Burns United Methodist Church (UMC) in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, is the oldest still-operating historically African American congregation in the state of Iowa. It was originally organized in 1866 as the Black Methodist Episcopal Church of Iowa, during a decade in which there were fewer than
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Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932
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Riley, George Putnam (1833--1905)
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Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823-1915)
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17
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F.M. Jones patents a/c unit
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12
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Pitre, Clayton (1924- )
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William H. Wilson (? --- ?)
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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Murphy, John Henry, Sr. (1840-1922)
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