International Library of African Music founded in 1954. Largest repository of African music from 1929 onward.

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Ruth Carter born 1960. First Black costume designer to win an Academy Award in 2019.

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Afrofuturism is the intersection of African diaspora culture with science and technology.

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Kelly Miller 1863-1939 was the 1st black man to attend Johns Hopkins University, 1887.

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Bettye Davis 1938- 2018, in 2000 became the first Black woman elected to the Alaska senate.

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Elmer Imes, 1883-1941 second Black person to earn a Ph.D. in physics and the first in the 20th century.

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Kelly Miller Smith 1920-1984 Preacher. Author and civil rights activist. In 1969 became the first Black person to become a faculty member of Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

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Mabel Hampton 1902-1989. Lesbian activist and Harlem Renaissance dancer.

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The Andantes girl group Motown Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks, and Louvain Demps.  More than 20,000 Motown songs, 90% of output before the 1972 move to LA.

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Lena Horne Theatre named in 2022. Lena Horne, 1917-2010, became the first Black woman to have a Broadway theatre named after her

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