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Below are links to African-American biographical sites.  An asterisk * indicates that additional links are found on this page.  Click on the icon to view the biography available at the Gale Biography Resource Center.

Politics and Civil Rights Science and Academics Music Literature and 
the Arts

Muhammad Ali
Ralph Bunche
Frederick Douglass*
Stokely Carmichael
Medgar Evers
Jesse Jackson*
Barbara Jordan *
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King*
Malcolm X*
Thurgood Marshall
Barack Obama *
Rosa Parks*
Colin Powell*
Condoleezza Rice
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Ida Wells-Barnett

Michael Anderson
Benjamin Banneker
George Washington
Carver

Bessie Coleman
W. E. B. Du Bois

Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.

Mae Jemison
Booker T. 
 Washington

Cornel West
African American Scientists -- An Index

Marian Anderson
Louis Armstrong
Josephine Baker
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillespie
Billie Holiday
B. B. King
Charlie Parker
Muddy Waters

Maya Angelou
Gwendolyn Brooks
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Nikki Giovanni
Langston Hughes
Zora Neal Hurston
Spike Lee
Walter Dean Myers
Phillis Wheatley
Richard Wright

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