Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative poet who created a combination of traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language

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Edward Archibald Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008)

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"Pretending to be Mexican, Native or South Asian helped Black Americans AVOID Jim Crow laws

Langston hughes passed as Mexican to avoid Jim Crow"

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Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was [a visually white Black] American civil rights activist who led the

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