Growing list of those born or died on March 17 in any year
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.
Cole began his career as a jazz pianist
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Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton
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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (August 15, 1809 – February 17, 1900) was an American activist and businessman best known for his role in establishing African American settlements in Kansas.
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In South Africa our Black Brother, Steve Biko, the Godfather of Black Consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko
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Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka
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James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)
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Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), is an American human rights activist, Muslim cleric, and black separatist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.
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James Morris Lawson Jr. (born Sept 22 1928)
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Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
