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Atlanta Life Insurance Company
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6
1905
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Robert L. Johnson
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Tony Prophet
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DeLarge, Robert Carlos (1842-1874)
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African Company / African Grove Theatre
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1980
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Central Life Insurance Company, the last surviving African American owned insura
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25
1921
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Reginald F. Lewis
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1942
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Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which
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1956
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1859
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Ursula M. Burns
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1918
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