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James E. Shepard - founder of North Carolina Central University in Durham. |
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Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown - founder of the Alice Freeman Palmer Institute, located in Sedalia, NC. |
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John Coltrane - innovative tenor and soprano saxophone player and great jazz pioneer; Born in Hamlet, NC on Sept. 23, 1926. |
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Thelonius Monk - pianist and composer who was among the creators of modern jazz; Born in Rocky Mount, NC on Oct. 10, 1917. |
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Dr. Anna Julia Cooper - born a slave in Raleigh, NC, Cooper began her education at St. Augustine's College in 1867. She served as principal of what is now Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. from 1902-08, and earned her Ph.D. in French from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. |
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Morgan London Latta - founded Latta University in Raleigh, NC. in 19th century. For more info, see: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/latta/menu.html. |
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Dr. Anna Pauli Murray - after graduating first in her class from Hillside High School in Durham, NC, Murray went on to pursue a distinguished career as a civil rights attorney, professor, college vice president, and deputy attorney general of California. |
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