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* Local Visionary Selected and Interviewed by NVLP Fellow
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Barbara Harris First woman elected bishop of the U.S. Episcopal church |
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Raymond V. Haysbert* Businessman, Tuskegee Airman |
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Jimmy Heath One of the nation’s great jazz musicians, a tenor saxophonist, writer, arranger, and teacher |
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Dorothy Height Legendary civil rights activist and President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women |
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Oliver Hill Trial Lawyer, landmark lawyer who overturned the separate but equal doctrine |
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Geoffrey Holder Award winning Broadway director, choreographer, dancer, painter, and writer |
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Charlotte Wesley Holloman* Opera Singer, Broadway Performer, Educator |
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Benjamin Hooks Minister and Civil Rights Activist |
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Cissy Houston Grammy award-winning vocalist who mentored Dionne Warwick and her own daughter Whitney Houston |
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Ola
G. Hudson* Educator |
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K. Leroy Irvis The first African-American speaker of any State House of Representatives in the Nation |
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Ella Jenkins Grammy award-winning children’s folk artist |
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John H. Johnson Founder of ”Ebony” and “Jet” magazines, and builder of a publishing and financial empire |
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Katherine Johnson NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic earlyera of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon. |
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Mamie "Peanut" Johnson Negro League era player with the Indianapolis Clowns, first woman pitcher in men's professional baseball |
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Hazel Johnson-Brown First African American woman general in the United States Army, retired professor. |
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Quincy Jones Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Record and Film Producer, Industry Executive and Multi-media Entrepreneur |
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Leontine Kelly Religious Leader, first female United Methodist Church Bishop |
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Dolores Kendrick* Washington DC Poet Laureate, Educator |
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Charles E. Kimbrough* Civil Rights Activist, Retired Veterinarian and Minister |
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B.B. King Internationally renowned King of the Blues, one of the last of the Mississippi Delta Bluesmen |
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Coretta Scott King Civil rights activist, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and head of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center for Nonviolent Social Change |
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Eartha Kitt Award-winning film, theater, cabaret, music and television star; popularly known for portraying “Catwoman” in the television series “Batman;” spoke out against the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson at the White House |
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Samuel "Billy" Kyles Minister, Civil Rights Leader, eyewitness to Martin Luther King’s assassination |
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William Layton Civil War historian, storyteller and retired government executive. |
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Dr. LaSalle Leffall Surgeon, oncologist, medical educator, and leader in professional and civic organizations. |
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Elma Lewis Educator, choreographer, Founder and Artistic Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Inc. (NCAAA), and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Inc. |
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J. Bruce Llewellyn Business Leader, an American business pioneer and corporate tycoon |
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Earl Lloyd First African American to play in a NBA game |
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Thomas Logan* Reverned Canon, Civil Rights Activist |
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Joseph Lowery Civil Rights Activist and retired United Methodist minister, former President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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