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Date	1867 - present
Areas Of Involvement	Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Notable Alumni	Roger Arliner Young • Toni Morrison • John Oliver Killens • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Mary Frances Berry • Patricia Roberts Harris • E. Franklin Frazier • Kamala Harris • Letitia James • Pauli Murray • Sean Combs • Dovey Johnson Roundtree • Fani Willis • Thurgood Marshall • Thomas Sowell • Oliver Hill • Aïda Muluneh • Bisa Butler • Phylicia Rashad • Roland Burris • Chadwick Boseman • Patricia Bath • Zora Neale Hurston • Ossie Davis • Taraji P. Henson • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Amiri Baraka • Edward Brooke • Stokely Carmichael • Elizabeth Catlett • Houston A. Baker, Jr. • Rudolph Fisher • Lucille Clifton • Vernon Jordan • Benjamin L. Hooks • James Comer • Jessye Norman • Douglas Wilder • David Dinkins • James Farmer • Shirley Horn • Clarence M. Pendleton • May Miller • Claude Brown
Related People	Roger Arliner Young • John Mercer Langston • Charles Hamilton Houston • Oliver O. Howard