| Biographies People who helped shape history
| Saar, Betye |
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| Sam and Dave |
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| Sanchez, Sonia |
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| Sanders, Barry |
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| Satcher, David |
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| Savage, Augusta |
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| Sayers, Gale |
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| Seacole, Mary |
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| Seale, Bobby |
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| Sembène, Ousmane |
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| Senghor, Léopold |
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| Shabazz, Betty |
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| Shaka |
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| Shange, Ntozake |
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| Sharpton, Al |
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| Shaw, Bernard |
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| Shepp, Archie |
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| Shirelles, the |
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| Shorter, Wayne |
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| Silver, Horace |
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| Simms, Willie |
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| Simpson, O.J. |
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| Sly and the Family Stone |
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| Smalls, Robert |
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| Smith, Amanda |
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| Smith, Bessie |
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| Smith, Emmitt |
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| Smith, Huey "Piano" |
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| Smith, Tommie |
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| Sobers, Sir Garfield |
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| Sonni 'Ali |
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| Sosa, Sammy |
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| Soul Stirrers |
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| Soyinka, Wole |
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| Spaulding, Charles Clinton |
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| Spinks, Leon; and Spinks, Michael |
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| Staple Singers, the |
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| Staupers, Mabel Keaton |
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| Stevenson, Teófilo |
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| Stewart, Rex |
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| Still, William Grant |
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| Stitt, Sonny |
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| Stokes, Carl |
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| Stone, Toni |
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| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
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| Strayhorn, Billy |
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| Strode, Woody |
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| Summer, Donna |
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| Sun Ra |
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| Supremes |
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