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Popular music: Duke Ellington. William C. Handy. Fats Waller.-- The orchestra: Dean Dixon.--Classical music: William Grant Still.--Singers: Marian Anderson.--The theater: Paul Robeson. Katherine Dunham.--Boxers: Joe Louis.--Track stars: Jesse Owens.--Education: Mordecal W. Johnson. Mary McLeod Bethune.--Science and invention: George Washington Carver. Charles Drew.--Literature: Langston Hughes.--The church: Adam Clayton Powell,sr.-- Politics: Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Walter White.--The military: Crispus Attucks. Benjamin O. Davis, sr. Benjamin O. Davis, jr. |