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History Makers
REMEMBERING POWERFUL FIGURES
Albert E. Meyzeek
1862 – 1963
Alberta O. Jones
1930 – 1965
Alice Dunnigan
1906 – 1983
Anna M. Clarke
1919 – 1944
Audrey L. Grevious
1930 – 2017
Benjamin F. Shobe
1920 – 2016
Bertha Whedbee
1876 – 1960
Carter G. Woodson
1875-1950
Charles Anderson
1907 – 1960
Charles H. Parris
1859 – 1931
Charles Young
1864 – 1922
Effie W. Smith
1879 – 1960
Eleanor Y. Love
1922 – 2006
Emma L. Minnis
1880 – 1972
Frank L. Stanley
1905 – 1974
Garrett A. Morgan
1877 – 1963
Georgia D. Powers
1923 – 2016
Grace M. James
1923 – 1989
Harvey C. Russell
1883 – 1949
Helen Humes
1913 – 1981
Helen L. Orr
1919 – 2020
I. Willis Cole
1887 – 1950
Isaac Murphy
1861 – 1896
James Bond
1863 – 1929
Jane R. Summers
1895 – 1992
Jimmy Winkfield
1880–1974
John H. Smiley
1881-1937
Jonah Jones
1909 – 2000
Joseph McMillen
1929 – 2010
Lionel Hampton
1908 – 2002
Louis Coleman
1943 – 2008
Lyman T. Johnson
1906 – 1997
Mae S. Kidd
1909 – 1999
Marilyn Y. Ainsworth
1945-2004
Mary E. Britton
1855 – 1925
Mary Ann Fisher
1923 – 2004
Mary E. Merritt
1881 – 1953
Mary C. Smith
1842 – 1919
Moneta J. Sleet
1926 – 1996
Muhammad Ali
1942 – 2016
Murray A. Walls
1899 – 1993
Nancy Green
1834 – 1923
Nannie H. Burroughs
1879 – 1961
Nellie Conley
1873 – 1959
Robert T. Duncan
1903 – 1998
Ruby Doyle
1925 – 2018
Sara Martin
1884 – 1955
Sterling O. Neal
1918 – 1977
Thomas F. Blue
1888 – 1935
Willa B. Chappell
1906 – 1992
William B. Ray
1925 – 2019
William H. Sheppard
1865 – 1927
William J. Simmons
1849 – 1890
William Summers
1918 – 1996
Woodford R. Porter
1918-2006