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Black History Month - African American Inventors
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Fayetteville State University (1867-- )
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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McMillian, Marco (1979-2013)
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Kenneth C. Frazier
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Marvin Ellison
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Stacy Brown-Philpot
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1947
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