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People:   Here is a list of people who had a significant impact, for better or worse, on black history: Abernathy, Ralph Angelou, Maya Bates, Daisy Brooke, Edward Brown, Minnijean Chisholm, Shirley Clark, Kenneth Clark, Mamie Douglass, Frederick Durr, Virginia Eckford, Elizabeth Eisenhower, Dwight D Evers, Medgar Faubus, Orval Greeley, Horace Green, Ernest Harris, Patricia R. Houston, Charles Jackson, Maynard Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert F. King Jr, Martin Luther Lewis, John Lincoln, Abraham Little Rock Nine (collectively) Lorch, Lee and Grace Marshall, Thurgood Mothershed, Thelma Nash, Diane Parks, Rosa Pattillo, Melba Powell, Colin Randolph, A. Phillip Ray, Gloria Roberts, Terrance Thomas, Jeffferson Till, Emmitt (CAUTION: CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURE) Walls, Carlotta Warren, Earl Washington, Harold Wilder, Douglas Woodson, Carter G. Young, Andrew