| Biographies People who helped shape history
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| | Sam and Dave |
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| | Sanchez, Sonia |
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| | Sanders, Barry |
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| | Satcher, David |
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| | Savage, Augusta |
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| | Sayers, Gale |
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| | Seacole, Mary |
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| | Seale, Bobby |
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| | Sembène, Ousmane |
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 | Senghor, Léopold |
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| | Shabazz, Betty |
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 | Shaka |
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| | Shange, Ntozake |
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| | Sharpton, Al |
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| | Shaw, Bernard |
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| | Shepp, Archie |
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| | Shirelles, the |
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| | Shorter, Wayne |
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| | Silver, Horace |
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| | Simms, Willie |
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| | Simpson, O.J. |
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| | Sly and the Family Stone |
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 | Smalls, Robert |
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| | Smith, Amanda |
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| | Smith, Bessie |
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| | Smith, Emmitt |
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| | Smith, Huey "Piano" |
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| | Smith, Tommie |
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 | Sobers, Sir Garfield |
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| | Sonni 'Ali |
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| | Sosa, Sammy |
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| | Soul Stirrers |
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 | Soyinka, Wole |
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| | Spaulding, Charles Clinton |
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| | Spinks, Leon; and Spinks, Michael |
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 | Staple Singers, the |
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| | Staupers, Mabel Keaton |
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| | Stevenson, Teófilo |
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| | Stewart, Rex |
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| | Still, William Grant |
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| | Stitt, Sonny |
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 | Stokes, Carl |
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| | Stone, Toni |
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| | Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
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| | Strayhorn, Billy |
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| | Strode, Woody |
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| | Summer, Donna |
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| | Sun Ra |
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| | Supremes |
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