List of African Americans

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This is an incomplete list of African Americans.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
Hapas | Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

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  • Barack Obama (born 1961), U.S. Senator, He received international media coverage for his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, delivered while he was still an Illinois State Senator
  • Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972), nicknamed "Shaq", NBA basketball star
  • Old Corn Meal, New Orleans merchant and performer
  • Jesse Owens (1913-1980), track and field athlete, embarrassed Adolf Hitler by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics

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  • Queen Latifah (born 1970), establish hip hop artist and actress

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  • Malcolm X (1925-1965), (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little), one time Nation of Islam and civil rights leader

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  1. ^ [1] "Now an African-American baseball executive, he remains major league baseball’s all-time home run hitter."
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  3. ^ [3] "He was an African-American minister, and civil rights leader."
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  6. ^ [6] "He was an African-American dancer and choreographer, and founding director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater."
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  8. ^ [8] "A Black Ex-Slave in Early America's White Society Preserves His Cultural Identity by Creating Separate Institutions"
  9. ^ [9] "Half Korean, half African-American, Amerie has lived all over the world..."
  10. ^ [10] "She was an African-American singer."
  11. ^ [11] "Like many African American artists, Marian Anderson..."
  12. ^ [12] "Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African-American women to hit the bestsellers lists..."
  13. ^ [13] "He was an African-American jazz, cornet, and trumpet player, singer, bandleader, and entertainer."
  14. ^ [14] "African Americans, such as Arthur Ashe..."
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  17. ^ Noted as one of several "African Americans" at [17]
  18. ^ [18] "I am happy that I - as a black woman - can work in an industry where this wouldn't have been possible 15 years ago." [19] ""As a woman first, and of colour, too, I have been discriminated against for both; I feel very attached to this material," said Berry."
  19. ^ Braugher - [20] "At least one of my favorite Black actors took home a prize... Andre Braugher."
  20. ^ [21] "By 1968, James Brown was very much more than an important musician; he was a major African-American icon."
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  22. ^ [23] "Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra becomes the first African American Jazz Orchestra to tour the south."
  23. ^ [24] "In fact, Cannon is considered by many to be the hottest young African American star..."
  24. ^ [25] "I've always said that my father is black and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."
  25. ^ [26] "She was an African-American singer and entertainer."
  26. ^ [27] "becoming Iowa State's first African American faculty member..."
  27. ^ [28] "He was an African-American basketball player who won seven consecutive NBA scoring titles and is the NBA's third all-time leading scorer."
  28. ^ [29] "He was an African-American singer, composer, and arranger."
  29. ^ [30] "Dave Chappelle is an African-American comedian"
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  31. ^ [32] "As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt..."
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  38. ^ [39] "America's First African American Woman to Win Olympic Gold"
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  45. ^ [46] "He is an African-American politician and lawyer."
  46. ^ [47] "She was an African-American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist."
  47. ^ [48] "Cooke was one of the first African American artists to run his own..."
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  51. ^ [52] "Crowdy, himself an African American, taught that Africans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel and as such were true Jews."
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  54. ^ [55] "She is an African-American educator and political activist."
  55. ^ [56] "THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GENERAL OFFICER IN THE REGULAR ARMY AND IN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES"
  56. ^ [57] "He was an African-American Army officer and military activist."
  57. ^ [58] "In 1878 she becomes the first African-American woman employed by the Office of the..."
  58. ^ [59] "He was an African-American trumpet player and bandleader, one of the most innovative, influential, and respected figures in the history of jazz"
  59. ^ [60] "an African-American actor, writer, producer, and director."
  60. ^ [61] "He was an African-American impressionist, actor, and song-and-dance man."
  61. ^ [62] "About Dominique Dawes: Dominique Dawes continues to inspire, motivate and lead after becoming the first African-American gymnast to win an individual..."
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  63. ^ [64] "African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period"
  64. ^ [65] "Although he has written much outside the genre, Samuel R. Delany is, along with Octavia Butler, one of two African Americans who, as writers, rank near the..."
  65. ^ [66] "On November 6, 1928, Oscar DePriest became the first African American to win a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the twentieth century."
  66. ^ [67] "Dickerson became the first African American to win that AAU title"
  67. ^ [68] "How tough is it as an African American actor to get a bigger role in a commercial film when you’re one of the leading black actors in the African American communities?"
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  69. ^ [70] "David Dinkins American politician, who served as the first African American mayor of New York City (1990–94)."
  70. ^ [71] "First African American enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame"
  71. ^ [72] "The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass"
  72. ^ [73] "And with Dr. Dre -- the African American rap music mogul who discovered Eminem"
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  75. ^ [76] "Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet."
  76. ^ [77] "He was the first African American Lieutenant Governor in United States history, serving in Louisiana from 1868 to 1872."
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  78. ^ [79] African American registry
  79. ^ [80] "He is an African-American writer and educator."
  80. ^ [81] "John Lee Hooker is one of the original innovators and kings of African American popular music, commonly called the blues."
  81. ^ Samuel L. Jackson - [82] "like many African-American actors of his generation, Jackson remembers Shaft as the first movie hero who looked and sounded like he did."
  82. ^ [83] "Could it be—we're just taking a wild guess here—because Symone is African-American, not even close to a size 2 and prefers sweats and T shirts to Dolce Gabbana? "It's understood that African-American celebrities aren't the big deal their white counterparts are in magazines," says Bill Jones, a photographer who regularly shoots celebrities for Ebony, Jet and Essence magazines. "Half of the celebrity photographers I know that aren't black couldn't tell a black celeb if it wasn't Will Smith or Halle Berry. They only know the obvious ones. And even then, there's not a whole lot of interest.""
  83. ^ [84] "He is an African-American actor in a recurring role in a huge mainstream movie series. "I look at the Mission: Impossible franchise and I say, basically, very few franchises have an African-American character." ... The things he wants to do are more personal, intimate projects, especially as a producer who specializes in African-American themed stories."
  84. ^ [85] "Madame Sul-Te-Wan was born on on this date in 1873. She was an African-American actress."
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