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One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk
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Thomas, Gerald E. (1929- )
Former Naval officer Gerald Eustis Thomas served as United States Ambassador to Guyana and Kenya. Born in Natick, Massachusetts on June 23, 1929 to Walter and Leila Thomas, President Ronald W. Reagan appointed Gerald E. Thomas to both
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slave trade
according to historian, Philip D. Curtin, between 1640 and 1807 some 387,000 Africans were brought to Barbados as victims of the slave trade.
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Ragsdale, Marguerita (1948- )
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Andrew Brimmer
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Booker T. Washington
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Race riot, Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas
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1919
Shirley Chisholm
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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
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1964
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1940
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Oliver Tambo
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