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Ira Aldridge – Black Thespian Played to European Audiences
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Centennial Singers – Revived Plantation Musical Traditions
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Bert Williams – Black Vaudevillian
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Early Radio Show Found Humor in Racial Stereotyping
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Duke Ellington – 78 RPM Record with Early Signature
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Duke Ellington – Perhaps Era’s Greatest Composer and Bandleader with His Famous Orchestra
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Louis Armstrong – Early Signed Letter and His Trumpet’s Mouthpiece
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Louis Armstrong – Letter Written a Few Days Before His Passing
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Paul Robeson – Epitome of a 20th Century Black Renaissance Man
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Marian Anderson – Kept Offstage by Racial Discrimination
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Josephine Baker – The “Black Venus”
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Billie Holiday – Her 1939 Song “Strange Fruit” Protested Lynching
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Sarah Vaughan – “The Divine One”
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Charlie “Bird” Parker – Jazz Alto Sax Legend
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The Outsider – Signed Oil Painting for First Paperback Edition of Richard Wright’s Novel
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Dizzy Gillespie – With Trademark Bulging Cheeks and Bent Horn
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Thelonious Monk – The High Priest of Bop
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John Coltrane – Innovative Tenor and Soprano Saxophonist
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John Coltrane – Inscribed 1961 Tiffany 18kt Gold Watch
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Ray Charles – At the Apollo, 1962
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Chuck Berry – Rock ‘n Roll Superstar
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Aretha Franklin – “The Queen of Soul”
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