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22
1960
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972)
Described by those who knew her as exotic, flamboyant, and colorful, Zoë Dusanne, was an art dealer and collector who opened Seattle’s first professional modern-art gallery, the Zoë Dusanne Gallery, in 1950 and who worked tirelessly to both introduce modern art to a northwest audience and to
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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Reason, Charles Lewis (1818-1893)
Charles L. Reason was born on July 21, 1818 in New York City. His parents, Michiel and Elizabeth Reason, were immigrants from Haiti who arrived in the United States shortly after the Haitian Revolution of 1793. His parents emphasized the importance of education, and very early on the young Reason
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Akon
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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”
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Will Smith
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Hackley, Emma Azalia (1867-1922)
Emma Azalia Smith Hackley was an African American singer and Denver political activist born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1867.  Her parents, business owners Henry and Corilla Smith, moved to Detroit where she attended Washington Normal School, graduating in 1886.  Smith, a child prodigy learned to
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Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)
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Williams, George Washington (1849-1891)
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Shaquille O'Neal
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1972
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