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- Grau, Shirley Ann
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- Graves, Dixie Bibb
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- Gray, Oscar Lee
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- Gresham, Stephen
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- Groom, Winston
- Gwaltney, Leslie Lee
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- Handy, William "W. C."
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- Harbert, John Murdoch, III
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- Harris Jr., Claude
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- Harrison, George Paul, Jr.
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- Hawkins, Roger
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- Hill, J. Lister
- Hill, Luther Leonidas
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- Hilliard, Henry W.
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- Hobbs, Samuel Francis
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- Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit
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- Hoole, William Stanley
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- Hubbert, Paul A.
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- Hundley, Oscar
- Hunt, Guy
- Hurston, Zora Neale
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- Jackson, James
- Jackson, Jimmie Lee
- Jackson, Kate
- Jackson, Vincent "Bo"
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- Jemison, Mae Carol
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- Johnson, Jimmy Ray
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- Jones, Doug
- Jones, James Taylor
- Jones, Lewis Wade
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- Jones, Thomas Goode
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- Jones, William Burleigh
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- Jordan, Ralph "Shug"
- Julian, Percy Lavaon
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- Kelly, William
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- Kiernan, Caitlín R.
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- Lynch, Hal
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- Manly, Basil
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- Martin, Joshua L.
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- Taylor, Robert Robinson
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- Thomas Fearn
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- Thomson, Bailey
- Thornton, Kathryn
- Thornton, Willie Mae "Big "Mama"
- Tichenor, Isaac Taylor
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- Wallace, William Darrell “Bubba,” Jr.
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- Weeden, Maria Howard
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- White, Frank
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