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Date 1867 - present
Areas Of Involvement Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Notable Alumni John Oliver Killens • Toni Morrison • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Mary Frances Berry • E. Franklin Frazier • Patricia Roberts Harris • Thurgood Marshall • Roland Burris • Sean Combs • Phylicia Rashad • Zora Neale Hurston • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Taraji P. Henson • Amiri Baraka • Elizabeth Catlett • Edward Brooke • Rudolph Fisher • Stokely Carmichael • Kamala Harris • Andrew Young • Lucille Clifton • Houston A. Baker, Jr. • Vernon Jordan • Benjamin L. Hooks • Ossie Davis • James Comer • Jessye Norman • Chadwick Boseman • Aïda Muluneh • Bisa Butler • Patricia Bath • James Farmer • Douglas Wilder • David Dinkins • Shirley Horn • Clarence M. Pendleton • May Miller • Claude Brown • Oliver Hill
Related People Charles Hamilton Houston • Oliver O. Howard • John Mercer Langston

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