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#	Article	description	sex or gender	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	occupation	image	item
1	Alexander P. Ashbourne	(1820-1915) African American slave and inventor	male	1820	1915	Philadelphia	inventor		Q98583178
2	Alonzo Ashley	African-American man (1982-2011) killed in a struggle with police officers at the Denver Zoo in Colorado	male	1982	2011-07-18				Q116603431
3	Andy Lopez	victim of 2013 shooting by police officer	male	2000-06-02	2013-10-22				Q65659045
4	Anne Wortham	American sociologist (born 1941)	female	1941-11-26		Jackson	sociologist university teacher		Q63435838
5	Annie E. Brown	(1862-1918) Methodist Episcopal evangelist and missionary	female	1862	1918		missionary		Q98530967
6	Anthony Lamar Smith	victim of 2011 police shooting	male	1987-05-19	2011-12-20				Q64826759
7	Apolinar Salcedo Caicedo	Colombian lawyer	male	1955-02-22		El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca	lawyer		Q5701515
8	Archibald J. Carey, Sr.	activist, writer and religious leader (1868-1931)	male	1868-08-25	1931-03-23	Atlanta	preacher political activist		Q65658401
9	Arnold Bennett Donawa	(1895-1966) Trinidad-born dental surgeon and Spanish Civil War veteran	male	1895-12-10	1966-01-19	Trinidad	dental surgeon		Q115098352
10	Arthur W. Lewis	American naval officer and diplomat (1926-2019)	male	1926	2019		naval officer diplomat		Q116679887
11	Arthur Woodley	American opera singer	male	1949	2020-11-20	New York City	musician singer		Q63430480
12	Beatrice Welters	American ambassador and board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago	female	1951			diplomat		Q112035793
13	Benjamin M. Holmes	American teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer (1846-1875)	male	1846	1875-10-09	Charleston	teacher journalist singer		Q116362211
14	Bill Daye	African American lacrosse player (1981- )	male	1981			lacrosse player		Q115122276
15	Bob Bailey	American entertainer, businessman, and civil rights activist	male	1927-02-14	2014-05-24	Detroit	television personality businessperson civil rights advocate		Q105716947
16	C. Payne Lucas	U.S. Peace Corps official and founder of Africare	male	1933-09-14	2018-09-15				Q64021438
17	Camille Thierry	1814-1875 , poet	male	1814	1875	New Orleans	poet		Q55720667
18	Carlos Alcis	(1970-2013) Carlos Alcis was a 43-year-old father of eight, who was scared to death, and suffered an apparent heart attack when police forced their way into his Brooklyn, New York home, searching for a robbery suspect. Carlos Alcis was born in H	male	1970	2013	Haiti			Q98534546
19	Carolyn Downs	American activist (1953-1978), member of the Seattle, Washington Chapter of the Black Panther Party (SCBPP)	female	1953-05-18	1978	Marshall	activist community organizer		Q115122437
20	Charleena Lyles	Charleena Lyles (1987-2017) was 30 years old and a mother of four who was shot and killed by Seattle Police on June 18, 2017.	female	1987	2017-06-18				Q63806889
21	Charles A. Davis	African-American journalist, public relations agent, real estate developer and civic leader (1922–2016)	male	1922-09-29	2016	Mobile	journalist real estate developer community leader		Q116616270
22	Charles B. Bell Jr.	mathematician	male	1928-08-20	2010-10-26	New Orleans	mathematician university teacher		Q98529673
23	Charles Decatur Brooks	field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church (1939-1979)	male	1930-07-24	2016	Greensboro	pastor		Q115463999
24	Charles James	American lawyer and diplomat	male	1922-06-06	2006	Washington, D.C.	lawyer diplomat		Q47087116
25	Charles Kenyatta	(1921-2005) organizer of the Harlem Mau Mau Society and Malcolm X’s body guard	male	1921-02-20	2005	Boston	bodyguard orator activist		Q98534656
26	Charles Leander Hill	African American philosopher	male	1906-07-28	1956-12-08	Urbana	philosopher		Q113765772
27	Charles Smith, Jr.	African American shot by North Little Rock, Arkansas police officers (2000-2018)	male	2000	2018-01-07				Q115452030
28	Charles Tregenna	British novelist	male	1810	1878		novelist draper politician		Q64685941
29	Charles Victor Roman	1864-1934 , physician and medical educator	male	1864	1934		physician educator		Q55720293
30	Christian Taylor	19-year-old college student shot by Texas police officer Brad Miller on August 7, 2015	male	1995	2015-08-07				Q92918617
31	Cliff Hooper, Sr.	American artist, activist, and community leader (1917-2001)	male	1917	2001	Evansville	artisan teacher activist community leader		Q115122420
32	Cyril Michael	judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1898-1978)	male	1898-01-22	1978-03-05	Saint Thomas	judge		Q115977939
33	Dale Brown Emeagwali	American microbiologist and cancer researcher	female	1954-12-24		Baltimore	biologist microbiologist		Q22003841
34	Danny Scarborough	American choreographer and dancer (1947-1989)	male	1947-07-27	1989-05-10	Wake Forest	choreographer dancer playwright		Q98534672
35	David A. Clark Jr.	American sheriff (1956– ), sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin	male	1956		Milwaukee	sheriff		Q115990335
36	David B. Lewis	American judge, the first African American to serve on the Criminal Court of Appeals in Oklahoma	male	1956 1958-04-30		Ardmore	judge		Q116593463
37	David Fleming	(1962- ) brigadier general in the United States Army, the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Delaware National Guard	male	1962			soldier		Q63807025
38	DeAunta T. Farrow	(1994-2007) twelve-year-old African American boy killed by West Memphis, Arkansas Police Officer Erik Sammis on June 22, 2007	male	1994-09-07	2007-06-22	West Memphis			Q115452289
39	Deion Fludd	American teenager (1996-2013)	male	1996	2013-07-12				Q116615832
40	Derrick Jones	(1983-2010) African American shot and killed by Oakland Police Department officers on November 8, 2010	male	1983	2010-11-08		barber		Q115452545
41	Deton Brooks	African American war correspondent (1909-1975)	male	1909-01-14	1975	Chicago	journalist		Q98532523
42	Dexter Dillard Eure Sr.	American journalist (1924-2015), pioneering black newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe	male	1924	2015	Suffolk	journalist		Q116615372
43	Didier Yapi	Ivorian information technology inventor and researcher (1976-2015)	male	1976	2015-04-06	Gôh-Djiboua District	inventor		Q115977956
44	Donald G. Phelps	American educator (1929-2003)	male	1929-07-22	2003-07-05	Seattle	academic administrator pundit university teacher		Q114151891
45	Dorothy Evans Holmes	American psychoanalyst	female	1943			psychoanalyst		Q115098133
46	E. Arnold Bertonneau	(1834-1912) New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and one of the first African American participants in Louisiana’s Reconstruction period	male	1834	1912	New Orleans	wine trader soldier		Q115098327
47	E. Russell “Noodles” Smith	(? – 1952) Seattle nightclub owner	male				nightclub owner		Q115098425
48	Edward L. Miles	oceanographer	male	1939-12-12	2016-05-07	Trinidad	oceanographer		Q104886756
49	Edwin C. “Bill” Berry	American civil rights activist	male	1910-11-11	1987-03-14	Oberlin	civil rights advocate		Q116299127
50	Edwin Garrison Walker	African American leatherworker, lawyer, and politician (1830-1901)	male	1830	1901	Boston	leatherworker lawyer politician		Q115462028
51	Eldridge F. Williams	African American airman (1917-2015), one of the first trainers of Tuskegee Airmen	male	1917-11-02	2015-07-02	Washington County	airman		Q116679367
52	Eliza Ann Dixon Day	( ? – 1800’s) A member of the John Street Methodist Church and founding member of the A.M.E. Zion Church in New York City, Eliza Day combined religious devotion with abolitionist politics.  Day was an active abolitionist who established a patter	female	1795					Q121302211
53	Ellis Cose	African American journalist and writer (born 1951)	male	1951-02-20 1952-02-20			journalist		Q63442100
54	Ernest “Rip” Patton	(1940– ) African American civil rights activist	male	1940		Nashville	civil rights advocate		Q63807701
55	Errol R. Schwartz	American military officer (1952- ), the first black adjutant general for the District of Columbia	male	1952		Georgetown	military officer		Q115145832
56	Eshetu Chole	Ethiopian economist (1945-1998)	male	1945	1998-06-18		economist		Q115647508
57	Eugene Orr	African American LDS activist (1946– )	male	1946-03-16		Ashburn	activist naturopath		Q115098289
58	Eula Mae Love	African American woman (1939-1979) shot by LAPD officers on January 3rd, 1979 in the front yard of her home	female	1939-08-08	1979-01-03				Q115463779
59	Eunice Gray Smith	Human computer for NASA	female	1923-12-31	2006-06-19	Portsmouth	mathematician		Q63968107
60	Eustace Augustus Dixon, II	Eustace A. Dixon II (1934-2000), 20th century author and environmental health advocate, was born at home in Brooklyn, New York on July 9, 1934. He was the youngest child of Eustace A. Dixon, a native of Jamaica and Beulah Talbot, a native of Bermuda.	male	1934-07-09	2000	Brooklyn	writer		Q63825506
61	Fillmore Freeman	chemistry professor	male	1936-04		Lexington	chemist		Q112579756
62	Fitzgerald Redd Beaver	African American media entrepreneur (1922–1992), founder of black Seattle newspaper The Facts	male	1922-01-18	1992-01-01	Martinsville	newspaper proprietor		Q63825395
63	Forrest Oran Wiggins	African American philosopher (1907-1982), the first African American to teach at University of Minnesota	male	1907	1982	Vincennes	academic philosopher		Q115098712
64	Frederick D. Stubbs	surgeon (1906-1947)	male	1906-03-16	1947-02-09		surgeon		Q64596802
65	Frederick Flemister	painter	male	1917-02-05	1976-02-29	Jackson	painter soldier		Q65658684
66	Frederick McDonald Massiah	African American civil engineer and construction contractor (1886–1975)	male	1886	1975		civil engineer building contractor		Q115098306
67	Garry C. Dean	(?- ) American Air Force Major General, Oregon’s first African American two-star	male				air force officer		Q115098731
68	George B. Anderson	African American jockey	male				jockey		Q115413997
69	George Goldsby	(1843-1922) veteran of the Union Army and a sergeant in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry (“buffalo soldiers”)	male	1843	1922		soldier		Q115120277
70	George Henry Brown, Jr.	American judge (1939- ), the first African American appointed to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court	male	1939-07-16			judge		Q115145768
71	George Morrison	Jazz bandleader	male	1891-09-09	1974-11-05	Fayette	musician		Q129437760
72	George S. Jeffrey	(1830-1906) barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, one of the most important African American political figures in late 19th Century Connecticut	male	1830	1906		barber community leader		Q98529852
73	Gilbert Haven Jones	African American philosopher and psychologist	male	1881-08-21	1966	Fort Motte	philosopher psychologist		Q63430510
74	Gordon Alexander McHenry	engineer (1921-2001)	male	1921-03-06	2001-05-19	Tyler	engineer		Q104889500
75	Gregory Gunn	African American man (1958-2016) shot dead by a Montgomery, Alabama police officer in front of his home	male	1958	2016-02-25				Q116360118
76	Hale Giddings Parker	American lawyer and political activist	male	1851	1925	Ripley	lawyer		Q104193166
77	Hamel Hartford Brookins	American minister, civil rights activist and bishop (1926 – )	male	1926			Christian minister civil rights advocate		Q115462076
78	Harold M. Kingsley	American Congregational minister and political activist	male	1887	1970	Mobile	Christian minister activist		Q115977973
79	Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr.	(1918-1998) In the post-World War II years Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr. paved the way for African American businessmen in corporate America. As one of the first black executives for a major American company, Russell made a name as a trailblazer an	male	1918	1998	Louisville	business executive		Q98531090
80	Henry Binga Dismond	American athlete, medical device inventor, pioneering physician and poet (1891-1956)	male	1891-12-27	1956	Richmond	athlete inventor physician poet		Q115664930
81	Henry Glover	(1974-2005) African American resident of Algiers, New Orleans murdered by a New Orleans Police officer	male	1974	2005-09-02				Q115452234
82	Henry Wadsworth McGee Sr.	first African American Postmaster of a major postal facility (1910-2000)	male	1910	2000-03-18	Hillsboro	postmaster		Q116299058
83	Homer L. Garrott	first African American California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer (1915-1998)	male	1915	1998	Los Angeles	police officer		Q115095316
84	Honorae Alfred Glascor	American judge (1914-2011) one of Franklin County, Ohio’s first African American judges	male	1914-01-15	2011-10-20	Augusta	judge		Q98534407
85	Howard Venable	ophthalmologist (1913-1998)	male	1913-01-27	1998-08-08	Windsor	ophthalmologist		Q98583242
86	Hylan Garnet Lewis	American sociologist	male	1911-04-04	2000-03-08	Washington, D.C.	sociologist professor		Q65658495
87	Iman Kerigo	Norwegian beauty contestant, the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss Norway in 2010	female	1992		Kenya	beauty pageant contestant		Q115647482
88	Ira B. Bryant, Jr.	educator, author, researcher and administrator	male	1904-10-18	1989-12-16	Crockett	educator writer researcher administrator		Q64826694
89	Irvin Hicks	American ambassador (1938- )	male	1938-03-16		Baltimore	ambassador		Q116679343
90	Isaac Dickerson	American singer and preacher (1850/1852–1900)	male	1852	1900		singer preacher		Q18529166
91	Ivan J. Houston	American businessman and author	male	1925-06-15	2020-03-01	Los Angeles	businessperson writer		Q105697016
92	Ivanhoe Donaldson	American civil rights activist (1941–2016), one of the leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)	male	1941-10-17	2016-04-03	Harlem	activist civil rights advocate		Q63823813
93	J. R. Todd	American drag racer and crew chief	male	1981-12-16		Lawrenceburg	racing automobile driver		Q98583199
94	Jack Turner	1840?–19 August 1882 , political activist and party organizer, martyr and lynching victim	male		1882-08-19		event producer politician		Q63166276
95	Jackson L. Davis III	US military officer, Brigadier General in the Air National Guard (1944- )	male	1944			military officer		Q115115038
96	Jacob Clement White Sr	Philadelphia entrepreneur and abolitionist (1806–1872)	male	1806-03	1872	Philadelphia	entrepreneur abolitionist		Q116677373
97	James Albert Jackson	American critic, reporter, and editor	male	1878-06-20	1960-11-15	Bellefonte Bellefonte	editor reporter critic actor		Q104193089
98	James B. McMillan	American dentist and civil rights activist (1917-1999)	male	1917-01-14	1999-03-20	Aberdeen	dentist		Q63433633
99	James Francis Shober	African American doctor, the first known black physician to practice in North Carolina	male	1853-08-23	1889-01-06 1889-01-01		physician		Q113562240
100	James Lionel Tolbert	James Lionel Tolbert (1926-2013) is an American civil rights advocate and entertainment attorney. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 26, 1926 to Albert Tolbert and Alice Young Tolbert. His father was a chauffeur and his mo	male	1926-10-26	2013	New Orleans	lawyer		Q63824444
101	James P. Thomas	African American barber and businessperson (1827-1913)	male	1827	1913	Nashville	entrepreneur barber		Q63430266
102	James T. Whitehead, Jr.	first African American Lockheed U2 pilot	male	1934		Jersey City			Q98583522
103	James Tyson Tildon	American chemist (1931-2006)	male	1931	2006		chemist		Q98531179
104	James Williams	fugitive slave in Gold Rush California and autobiographical writer (1825–after 1873)	male	1825-04-01		Elkton	writer		Q116603575
105	Jesse L. Douglas Sr.	American minister, civil rights activist and vocalist (1930- )	male	1930-08-19		New Orleans	Christian minister civil rights advocate singer		Q116676931
106	Jocko Graves	African American boy and American Revolutionary War soldier, said to be the inspiration for the "lawn jockey"	male	1764	1776		soldier		Q63823690
107	Jocques Clemmons	(1985-2017) African American shot dead by white Nashville, Tennessee police officer Joshua Lippert	male	1985-03-30	2017-02-10	Nashville			Q115452608
108	Joe Travis	enslaved person, survivor of the Battle of Alamo (c.1815- ?)	male	1815		Mount Sterling			Q116615564
109	John Brown	(1830-1900) Born into slavery about January 1830, John Brown was owned by a leading Southampton County, Virginia planter named Robert Ridley. When Ridley died in 1852, Brown’s wife (whose name is unknown), two daughters and one brother were sold an	male	1830	1900				Q98583239
110	John Campbell Dancy Jr.	1888-1968 , Detroit Urban League executive director	male	1888	1968 1968-09-10		executive		Q55720790
111	John Henry Jordan	American physician (1870-1912), the first black doctor in Coweta County, Georgia	male	1870-03-11	1912	Troup County	physician		Q116678620
112	John Henry Smythe	Jurist and RAF Flight Lieutenant (1915-1996)	male	1915-06-30	1996-07-09	Freetown	navigator barrister		Q63797073
113	John Henry “Doc” Hamilton	(1891-1942) Doc Hamilton, born John Henry Hamilton in 1891, was a famous Seattle prohibition-era club owner. Originally from West Point, Mississippi, he moved to Seattle at the age of 23. Hamilton served in World War I in the famous 92nd infantry div	male	1891	1942	West Point	nightclub owner		Q115098615
114	John K. Haynes, Jr.	American molecular biologist	male	1943-10-30		Monroe	molecular biologist		Q64513831
115	John Lee Love	African American inventor, inventor of the “Love Sharpener” hand-cranked pencil sharpener	male	1889	1931		inventor		Q21965926
116	John Melvin Jones	American diplomat (1944-), appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008	male	1944		Detroit	diplomat		Q115497501
117	John N. Conna	(1836-1921) John Newington Conna was a pivotal figure in the early history and development of Washington State. Born enslaved near San Augustine, Texas in 1836, Conna was a free man by the time of the Civil War because he served in the 1st Louisiana	male	1836	1921				Q98529425
118	John Ralph Lyons	American soldier and barber (1888-1941)	male	1888-02-22	1941-03-16	Lewistown	soldier barber		Q115990022
119	John Thomas King	African American architect; born in Girard (now Phenix City), Alabama. Son of Horace King. (1846–1926)	male	1846	1926	Girard	architect		Q111685991
120	John Wallace	(1925-1992) Medical researcher John Wallace was born March 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Howard University in 1947 with an honors bachelors in zoology. Originally, he was going to enroll at a medical student at Meharry Medical Co	male	1925	1992				Q98531136
121	John William	French singer	male	1922-10-09	2011-01-08	Grand-Bassam Ivory Coast	singer		Q3182748
122	Johnny Robinson	sixteen-year-old African-American man (1947-1963), shot and killed by Birmingham, Alabama police officer Jack Parker on September 15, 1963	male	1947	1963-09-15				Q115977969
123	Jordan Russell Davis	(1995-2012) murder victim	male	1995	2012				Q102117706
124	Joseph Charles Jenkins	American naval officer (1914-1959), the first African American naval officer	male	1914	1959	Detroit	naval officer		Q115098122
125	Joseph Huggins	American diplomat (1951- ), Ambassador to Botswana	male	1951			diplomat		Q115098309
126	Joseph S. Himes	American sociologist	male	1908	1992	United States of America	sociologist university teacher		Q112545452
127	Joseph Savary	Saint-Domingue-born hero at Battle of New Orleans (? — 1800’s)	male			Saint-Domingue	soldier		Q116677578
128	Josephine Ebaugh Jones	American community activist and business executive (1920-2017), who may have been the first black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company	female	1920-07-30	2017-12-10	Cross Hill	community organizer business executive		Q98531115
129	Joshua Rose	American local politician (1906-1987), first black city councilman in Oakland, California	male	1906-09-11	1987	Lexington	local politician		Q115496344
130	Juan Beltrán de Magaña	black conquistador of Chile	male	1537	1578	Sigüenza	conquistador page		Q5947901
131	Julia Jacobs	(1874-1960) Julia Jacobs was an important culture bearer for the Suquamish Tribe, now located on the Port Madison Indian Reservation, in Washington State. Although Chief Seattle(Sealth) for whom the city of Seattle is named, is the most famous memb	female	1874	1960				Q98534489
132	Katie Booth	(1907–2005) African American biomedical chemist and community activist. Born , to Joseph Patterson and Ida Coffye. She attended a one room scho	female	1907-05-23	2005	Gulfport	biochemist activist		Q63823968
133	Keith Lamont Scott	human being who was the victim of police violence in the United States	male	1973-02-03	2016-09-20	Charleston	security guard		Q101423773
134	Kenia Martinez	Honduran beauty queen (1988– ), Miss Universe Honduras in 2010	female	1988			beauty queen		Q115988655
135	King Daniel Ganaway	American photographer (1882–1944)	male	1882-10-22	1944-03-16	Rutherford County	photographer		Q109653277
136	Kirke Smith	American school superintendent and ordained minister (1865-1935)	male	1865-07-22	1935	Montgomery County	school superintendent Christian minister		Q98529850
137	Kiwane Albert Carrington	victim of 2009 shooting by police	male	1994-07-14	2009-10-09	Champaign			Q65658978
138	La David Terrence Johnson	African American Army Sergeant and vehicle mechanic (1992-2017), killed in the Tongo Tongo Ambush on October 4, 2017	male	1992	2017-10-04		soldier mechanic		Q98583504
139	Larry R. Jordan	American army officer and businessman (1946-)	male	1946-02-07		Kansas City	military officer businessperson		Q115122405
140	Lasker Bell	television and radio host	male	1928-05-21	2016-09-12	Homer	television presenter radio personality sharecropper		Q115220243
141	Lee Frank Hagan	American professor and academic administrator (1945-1986)	male	1945-07-28	1986	Brunswick	professor academic administrator		Q98531892
142	Leonard H. O. Spearman	(1929-2008) U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda and Lesotho. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929.	male	1929-07-08	2008	Tallahassee	diplomat		Q115098310
143	Leone Jacovacci	Italian boxer	male	1902-04-19	1983-11-16	Sanza Pombo	boxer		Q3830525
144	Leslie Brennan Rout, Jr.	(1935-1987) Latin American history professor, jazz musician, and author	male	1935-02-26	1987		musician historian		Q115097707
145	Lily Golden	Russian historian (1934-2010)	female	1934-07-18	2010-12-06	Tashkent	scientist		Q42558760
146	Livingston Wingate	(1915-1995) Livingston Leroy Wingate was a Harlem civic leader and a state supreme court judge in Manhattan, New York. Wingate was born on September 2, 1915 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, a small town of two thousand residents. Wingate lived	male	1915-09-02	1995	Timmonsville	judge		Q98530584
147	Lois Jean White	first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (born 1938)	female	1938-03-21		Nashville	flautist volunteer		Q115668792
148	Lonnie E. Smith	American dentist and civil rights activist	male	1901	1971-03-06	Yoakum	dentist civil rights advocate		Q104203653
149	Louis E. Sturns	American judge (1949- ), the first African American to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	male	1949-08-06		Henderson	judge		Q115122825
150	Louisa Burr	daughter of Aaron Burr (178_-1878)	female	170s	1878				Q112239632
151	Lucia Lynn Moses	American actress (1908-1984)	female	1908-12-23	1984	Washington, D.C.	actor		Q63381148
152	Luther Ambrose Goodwin	American airman, civil rights activist, and attorney (1920-1982)	male	1920-04-17	1982	Jacksonville	airman civil rights advocate lawyer		Q115464139
153	Lutrelle Horne	American producer (193?- ), who worked for Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Shop)	male			Newport News	television producer		Q115098015
154	Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr.	American historian, professor, publisher, and academic administrator (1943-2015)	male	1943-07-04	2015-10-11	Norfolk	historian		Q63807180
155	Manuel Cuesta Morúa	Cuban dissident leader, scholar and activist	male	1962-12-31		Havana	scholar activist		Q97596180
156	Marcia A. Santacruz Palacios	human rights activist and political scientist (1977–)	female	1977			activist political scientist		Q116365324
157	Marion Antoinette Richards Myles	scientist with expertise in plant physiology (1917-1969)	female	1917	1969-10-18	Philadelphia	scientist		Q98583515
158	Martín Morúa Delgado	Cuban writer and politician	male	1856 1857	1910		writer politician		Q63786708
159	Marva Weatherborn	Guatemalan beauty pageant contestant, the first black Miss Guatemala and 2004 Miss Universe contestant	female	1983-06-02		Puerto Barrios	beauty pageant contestant beauty queen		Q63797083
160	Marva Wright Urena	Costa Rican beauty pageant contestant, the first Miss Costa Rica of African ancestry (1986-)	female	1986			beauty pageant contestant		Q63806630
161	Marvin Ellison	American business executive and CEO of Lowe's	male	1966		Haywood County	chief executive officer		Q22279080
162	Mary Elizabeth Williams	American singer	female	1977		Philadelphia	opera singer		Q51841730
163	Mary Turner	American murder victim	female	1899	1918-05-19				Q10327046
164	Matthew Cherry	American inventor (1834- ?), inventor of the tricycle	male	1834-02-05		Washington, D.C.			Q115122382
165	Michael R. Hollis	(1953–2012) Atlanta attorney and founder in 1984 of one of the earliest black-owned airlines, Air Atlanta	male	1953-10-22	2012		businessperson		Q115098143
166	Michael Stewart	American graffiti artist (1958-1983)	male	1958-05-09	1983-09-28	Brooklyn	graffiti artist		Q6834629
167	Midian Othello Bousfield	American physician and businessperson (1885-1948)	male	1885-08-22	1948	Tipton	physician businessperson		Q55720562
168	Miles K. Davis	African American educator (1960-), president of Linfield College	male	1960		Philadelphia	educator academic administrator		Q115122370
169	Miles Mark Fisher	American historian, educator and clergyman	male	1899	1970		historian educator Christian cleric		Q94368045
170	Mingo Sanders	First Sergeant Mingo Sanders (1857-1929) is best known as one of the leading figures in the Brownsville Affray in Brownsville, Texas in 1906.  Sanders was a career soldier.	male	1857	1929		soldier		Q63824542
171	Myles Anderson Paige	American judge (1898-1983), the first African American to be appointed a New York City Criminal Court Judge	male	1898-07-18	1983	Montgomery	judge		Q115664952
172	Nathan Wright	American activist and Black Power advocate (1923-2005)	male	1923-08-05	2005	Shreveport	activist		Q115497837
173	Ned Coll	(1940- ) Edward T. “Ned” Coll is a civil rights activist and one time (1972) presidential candidate from Connecticut known for taking on the privatized and segregated beaches along the Connecticut coast in the 1970s. Born in 1940, he gre	male	1940			civil rights advocate		Q98534664
174	Nedd James Johnson, Sr.	(1960- ) New Jersey educator	male	1960-03-01			educator		Q115114914
175	Orlando Ashford	American businessman (1968– ), president of Holland America Line	male	1968		Bangor	businessperson		Q116615799
176	Orlando Barlow	victim of 2003 police shooting	male	1974	2003-02-28				Q65658816
177	Oscar W. Holden, Jr.	(1887-1969) Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians. Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from th	male	1887	1969	Nashville	jazz musician		Q115098575
178	Owen Monconduit	American army officer (1961- ), the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Louisiana National Guard	male	1961		Pineville	military officer		Q115243953
179	Peter Davis	American music teacher (1887?-1971), music teacher of Louis Armstrong	male	180s	1971	New Orleans	music educator		Q116601636
180	Peter Hill	African American clockmaker	male	1767-07-19	1820-12	Burlington Township	clockmaker handicrafter		Q89583345
181	Petra Hoost	first Afro-Dutch woman to win the Miss Netherlands pageant in 1996	female	1976-01-16					Q121302241
182	Pettis Perry	prominent African-American Communist party leader (1897-1965)	male	1897	1965		political activist		Q62472084
183	Phillip O. Crews	chemist	male	1943			chemist university teacher		Q67481740
184	Pierre Réjon	France's first black pilot	male	1895-06-29	1920-08-15	Martinique	aircraft pilot		Q63797036
185	Preston Wilcox	human rights activist and professor (1923-2006)	male	1923	2006-08-12		professor human rights activist		Q63381202
186	Prince Mortimer	1724-1834 , slave and prisoner	male	1724	1834-03-11				Q62141686
187	Ralph Melvin Wimbish	(1922-1967) St. Petersburg, Florida-based African American physician	male	1922	1967		physician		Q115120333
188	Ramón Durem	(1915-1963) Spanish Civil War veteran and militant poet	male	1915	1963	Seattle	poet		Q115098403
189	Raymond Harold Boone	Virginia journalist (1938–2014)	male	1938-02-02	2014	Suffolk	journalist		Q116676880
190	Rayshard Brooks	American man shot dead in 2020 by police in Atlanta, Georgia, United States	male	1993-01-31	2020-06-12				Q96316275
191	Reginald Doucet	African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency	male	1985-06-03	2011-01-14	Prunedale			Q115452359
192	Renty B. Franklin	physiologist	male	1945-09-02		Birmingham	physiologist		Q64513729
193	Reynaldo Cuevas	(1992-2012) grocery worker shot dead by an NYPD officer after an armed robbery at the grocery where he worked	male	1992-01-06	2012	Dominican Republic			Q116322068
194	Richard I. McKinney	(born 1906)	male	1906	2005				Q63381168
195	Richard Lee Davis	American historian of China (born 1951?)	male	1951			historian		Q115645165
196	Richard Williams	African American emigrant to the USSR	male						Q98583514
197	Robert Ambrose Thornton	American physicist and university administrator (1902-1982)	male	1902-05-06	1982	Houston	physicist academic administrator		Q115497759
198	Robert Bogle	African American caterer in Philadelphia (1774-1848)	male	1774	1848		cook		Q115413909
199	Robert C. Perry	American diplomat and ambassador	male	1945		Durham	diplomat		Q64826736
200	Robert Earl Gray	(1941-2011) Lieutenant General Robert Earl Gray was the first African American to become the Commanding General of the United States Army Signal Corps and the first African American Commander of Fort Gordon, Georgia, which conducts advanced traini	male	1941	2011		soldier		Q63807062
201	Robert Hickman	American Reverend, founder of Pilgrim Baptist Church	male	1831	1900-02-06	Missouri	pastor		Q21554170
202	Robert Kent Trench	botanist	male	1940			botanist		Q21610947
203	Robert Louis Shepard	American author and chemist (1947- )	male	1947-12-25		Raleigh	chemist writer		Q115145733
204	Roger Sauvage	(1917-1977) French aviator	male	1917-03-26	1977-09-26	20th arrondissement of Paris	aircraft pilot		Q3439445
205	Ronald Waters	American political scientist and civil rights activist (1938-2010)	male	1938-07-20	2010	Wichita	political scientist civil rights advocate		Q116677396
206	Ruffin Bridgeforth	president of the Genesis Group and priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1923–1997)	male	1923-03-18	1997	Melville	priest		Q115098290
207	Rufus Smith	American military officer (19?- ), the first African American to be appointed a General in the Ohio National Guard	male				military officer		Q115145848
208	Sait Sökmen	Afro-Turkish choreographer, dancer, instructor, and talent agent	male	1942			choreographer		Q6087164
209	Sambo Anderson	slave on George Washington's Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon	male		1845-02-20				Q56416058
210	Samuel Bruce	African American airman in the 99th Pursuit Squadron (1915–1944)	male	1915-12-07	1944-01-27	Houston	airman		Q116678637
211	Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.	American development specialist and diplomat	male	1920-08-15	2001-08-02	Waco	diplomat		Q28843744
212	Samuel Eugene Kelly	American soldier and educator (1926-2009)	male	1926-01-26	2009	Greenwich	soldier educator		Q116679863
213	Samuel Robert Cassius	born 1853; died 1931	male	1853	1931 1931-08-10		opinion journalist Four Evangelists		Q63409963
214	Sean Bell	African American man shot and killed by NYPD police officers	male	1983-05-18	2006-11-25		electrician		Q1363921
215	Sebastián Rodríguez Brito	(c.1642-c.1717) Native of West Africa, Sebastian Rodríguez Brito was one of a number of black freemen to join the ranks of the Spanish military during the time of the colonization of what is to	male			Guinea	soldier		Q63770306
216	Shantel Davis	(1989-2012) African-American woman fatally shot by NYPD officer Phil Atkins	female	1989	2012-06-14				Q115452168
217	Sharmel Edwards	African-American woman (1962-2012), fatally shot by five Las Vegas, Nevada police officers on April 21, 2012	female	1962	2012-04-21				Q98583508
218	Shereese Francis	American woman (1982-2012) suffocated and murdered in 2012 by four New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in her Rochdale, Queen family home	female	1982	2012				Q115145860
219	Simeon Lewis Carson	(1882-1954) Dr. Simeon Lewis Carson, a late-19th and early-20th century black physician, would be most known for being one of the first surgeons within Washington, D.C. to use spinal anesthesia during surgery. However, he is also renowned for his	male	1882	1954		physician		Q98534661
220	Solomon Melvin Coles	American minister, educator, and community leader (1844-1924)	male	1844	1924	Petersburg	Christian minister educator community leader		Q116360824
221	Sylvanus Alexander Tyler Sr.	American mathematician and biostatistician (1914-1986)	male	1914-08-21	1986		mathematician biostatistician		Q115687439
222	Sylvanus Smith	(1831–1911) free black Brooklynite who promoted and protected racial equality, business ownership, and property development	male	1831	1911-09-17		businessperson community leader farmer		Q115098298
223	Sylville Smith	African American man (1993-2016) shot dead by Dominique Heaggan-Brown, an African-American police officer in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Police Department	male	1993-04-11	2016-08-13	Milwaukee			Q98583502
224	T. Arnold Hill	American activist (1888-1947), early leader of the National Urban League	male	1888	1947	Richmond	activist		Q94280484
225	Tamon Robinson	(1985-2012) African American man killed by two unnamed NYPD officers at the Bayview Housing Project in Canarsie, Brooklyn	male	1985	2012-04-12				Q115452092
226	Tarika Wilsonc	African-American woman (1981-2008), fatally shot by Lima, Ohio, police officer Joseph Chavalia	female	1981	2008-01-04				Q115145887
227	Tawana Brawley	American nurse who made rape allegations in 1987	female	1971-12-15			nurse		Q65658806
228	Thomas Calhoun Walker	American teacher, lawyer, and government official (1862-1953)	male	1862	1953		teacher lawyer civil servant		Q63409980
229	Thomas Detter	African-American writer, activist, minister, doctor, and businessman (c.1829 - 1891)	male	1821			Christian minister activist businessperson physician		Q93096283
230	Thomas Molyneux	African American boxer (1784–1818)	male	1784	1818		boxer		Q115461977
231	Timothy DeWayne Thomas, Jr.	unarmed African American man who was killed by the Cincinnati Police Department	male	1981-07-25	2001-04-07	Cincinnati			Q104203608
232	Timothy Russell	Afro-American male who was a victim of police violence in the United States	male	1968-12-09	2012-11-29	Cleveland			Q105596484
233	Tomie Louis Gaines	African American soldier, truck driver and painter (1922–2016), who served in the early twentieth century with the last of the Buffalo Soldiers	male	1922-11-03	2016	Hartwell	soldier truck driver painter		Q115098293
234	Toussaint Tourgee Tildon	1893-1964 , physician and psychiatrist	male	1893-04-05	1964		psychiatrist physician		Q55720064
235	Vasco De Gama Hale	American educator, blinded veterans’ association organizer, and NAACP official (1915-2002)	male	1915-02-16	2002	Crawford	educator activist		Q115097733
236	Virgil Trice	African American scientist at Argonne Lab	male	1926-02-03	1997-10-31	Indianapolis	scientist		Q96337278
237	Vivian O. Lee	(1938- ) Vivian O’Dell Lee, a native of Spring, Texas, is the youngest child of Alvirita and Arthur Booker. She was born on January 28, 1938. Growing up, Lee traveled extensively with her mother and stepfather, US Master Sergeant Frank Little, to A	female	1938-01-28		Spring	nurse		Q98534229
238	Véronique de la Cruz	French model	female	1974-11-03		Saint-François	model beauty pageant contestant		Q2367597
239	W. Augustus Low	American author, historian (1916–1988)	male	1916-05-17	1988-04-01		writer historian professor		Q116980065
240	Wabeladio Payi	Congolese teacher	male	1957-01-15	2013-04-04	Ngombe Lutete	teacher		Q16269525
241	Walter F. Anderson	American classical pianist		1915-05-12	2003-11-24	Zanesville	classical pianist organist composer jazz musician community organizer academician		Q125709964
242	Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick	Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick (1894-1953), prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania physician and founder of The Pyramid Club was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, on March 21, 1894. He attended the public schools there unt	male	1894-03-21	1953		physician		Q63825187
243	Walter J. Whitfield	American military officer (1948- ), the first African American General in the Army National Guard	male	1948			military officer		Q115122477
244	Walter L. Wallace	American sociologist	male	1927	2015		sociologist		Q109833674
245	Walter Scott	American man fatally shot in 2015 by police in North Charleston, South Carolina	male	1965-02-09	2015-04-04	No/unknown value	victim		Q19788938
246	Warren H. Wheeler	American aviator and businessman (1943– ), owner of Wheeler Flying Service (Wheeler Airlines)	male	1943-10-01		Durham	aircraft pilot businessperson		Q115683972
247	Wayne L. Black	Brigadier General and Assistant Adjutant General of the Indiana Army National Guard (1962?- )	male				military officer		Q115122394
248	Wendell James Allen	victim of 2012 shooting by police officer	male	1992	2012-03-07				Q65657992
249	Willard Johnson Sr.	(1901-1969) Willard Johnson, bacteriologist, science educator, business proprietor, was born in Leavenworth Kansas, the third of the eleven children of Joseph Johnson and Hattie McClanahan. Taught by his high school’s founder, Blanche Kelso Bruce,	male	1901	1969	Leavenworth	bacteriologist		Q115098681
250	William G. Mays	American business executive	male	1946 1945-12-04	2014	Indiana Evansville	business executive entrepreneur philanthropist community leader		Q115932536
251	William Harry Barnes	1887-1945 , physician and otolaryngologist	male	1887-04-04	1945-01-15	Philadelphia	otolaryngologist physician		Q55720056
252	William Jones	(1918-2009) American soldier and entrepreneur, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers	male	1918	2009	Jefferson County	soldier		Q115114927
253	William P. Powell, Jr.	African-American physician	male	1834	1915	Bedford	physician surgeon		Q63101518
254	Wilson “Ducktail” Alexander, Sr.	(1919-1950) US Marine, baseball player and baseball manager	male	1919	1950	St. Mary Parish	baseball player baseball manager soldier		Q98532673

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