| Biographies People who helped shape history
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 | Rainey, Joseph Hayne |
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| | Rainey, Ma |
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| | Randolph, A. Philip |
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| | Ransier, Alonzo J. |
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| | Rapier, James T. |
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| | Rawlings, Jerry |
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| | Ray, Charlotte E. |
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| | Reagon, Bernice Johnson |
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| | Redding, Otis |
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| | Reed, Ishmael |
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 | Reed, Jimmy |
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| | Reed, Willis |
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 | Revels, Hiram R. |
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| | Rice, Condoleezza |
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| | Rice, Jerry |
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 | Richards, Viv |
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| | Ringgold, Faith |
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| | Roach, Max |
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| | Roberts, Joseph Jenkins |
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| | Robertson, Oscar |
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| | Robeson, Paul |
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| | Robinson, Bill |
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| | Robinson, Eddie |
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| | Robinson, Frank |
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 | Robinson, Jackie |
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| | Robinson, Max |
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| | Robinson, Rubye |
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| | Robinson, Smokey, and the Miracles |
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 | Robinson, Sugar Ray |
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| | Rollins, Sonny |
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| | Rosenwald, Julius |
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| | Rowan, Carl |
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 | Rudolph, Wilma |
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| | Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre |
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 | Run-D.M.C. |
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 | Russell, Bill |
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| | Rustin, Bayard |
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