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- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-18955
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-19194
- Dill, Augustus Granville3
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-19063
- Hall, Charles Cuthbert, 1852-19083
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-19383
- Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-19373
- Addams, Jane, 1860-19352
- Backus, Truman J. (Truman Jay), 1842-19082
- Bradford, Amory H. (Amory Howe), 1846-19112
- Cheney, Ednah Dow, 1824-19042
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-19122
- Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-19232
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-19082
- Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-19432
- Haygood, Atticus G. (Atticus Greene), 1839-18962
- Ogden, Robert C. (Robert Curtis), 1836-19132
- Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-19022
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-19302
