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Leon Lamar Wagner (May 13, 1934 – January 3, 2004) was an American professional baseball left fielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants (1958–1959, 1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961–1963),…
1937–2011
Leon Walter Tillage (January 19, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American whose autobiographical children's book Leon's Story (1997) features the effects of Jim Crow laws in his life in the 1940s – and of the later Civil Rights Movement. Tillage was a…
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Leon Dewitt Washington Sr. (born August 29, 1982) is an American football coach and former professional player who played in the National Football League (NFL) as a running back and return specialist and made two Pro Bowls and two All-Pro teams during his…
1917–2022
Leona Wright Farris (August 11, 1917 – February 27, 2022) was an American educator. She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Akron from 1969 to 1988 and some sources list her as the first African American woman to hold that position at the…
1928–2007
Leona Ford Washington (1928 – August 5, 2007) was a community activist in Texas and founder of the McCall Neighborhood Center in El Paso. She taught for 39 years in the El Paso Independent School District. Washington composed the song, "The City of El…
1949–
Leona Pearl Mitchell (born October 13, 1949, Enid, Oklahoma) is an American operatic soprano who sang for 18 seasons as a leading spinto soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In her home state of Oklahoma, she received many honors. These include…
1891–1961
Leonard Francis Morse (January 12, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was an American academic administrator, minister, and fraternalist. He was a dean and president of Edward Waters College. Morse was also a founder and the first president of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
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Leonard Harris is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, where he has directed the Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. program and the African American Studies and Research Center. Before Purdue he taught at Morgan State University, a public,…
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Leonard Jeffries Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist and former academic. He was the departmental chair of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY).
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Leonard T. Miller, a native of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduated from Morehouse College in 1983 with a B.A. in business administration. He has achieved many accomplishments in aviation and motor racing and as an author.
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Leonardo Williams (born 1980 or 1981) is an American politician, restaurateur, and former educator. He has served as the mayor of Durham, North Carolina since December 4, 2023. Prior to his term as mayor, Williams was a member of the Durham City Council.
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Leondra Reid Kruger (born July 28, 1976) is an American judge who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. A native of South Pasadena, California, she graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. Kruger then clerked for…
1953–
Leonel Jules is a Canadian painter from Montreal, Quebec. A graduate of the Université du Québec in Fine Arts, he has done research in art history and semiotics, devoting himself to painting and the diffusion of art though a television show and a research…
1918–1997
Leonidas Sondric Epps Jr. (October 5, 1918 – January 5, 1997) was an American football and basketball coach, college athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at Clark College—now known as Clark Atlanta University—from…
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Leontyne Price ( LEE-ən-teen, lee-ON-teen; born Mary Violet Leontine Price, February 10, 1927) is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan…
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Lerone Bennett Jr. (October 17, 1928 – February 14, 2018) was an African-American scholar, journalist, and social historian who analyzed race relations in the United States. His works include Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 1619–1962…
1921–2015
LeRoy Battle (December 31, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was a World War II pilot, teacher, and jazz musician. He was a Tuskegee Airman and one of the African American officers involved in the Freeman Field Mutiny.
1925–1993
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass,” at the Detroit Public Library’s Frederick…
1915–2011
Leroy E. Hurte (May 2, 1915 – April 16, 2011), was an American businessman, music conductor, composer, educator, author, guitar player and vocalist, music store owner, and record producer. He was one of the few Black symphony conductors in the United…
1957–2026
LeRoy Irvin Jr. (September 15, 1957 – July 1, 2026) was an American professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Los Angeles Rams from 1980 to 1989. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 1986 and…
1924–2011
Leroy Branch Looper (November 24, 1924 – September 11, 2011), was an American community organizer and founder of several low-income housing facilities, programs for addiction recovery, and education initiatives in San Francisco. He was known by locals as…
1923–2012
Leroy G. Moore Jr. (October 4, 1923 – January 15, 2012) was an American college football, college basketball, and track and field coach and university professor and administrator. He served as the head football coach at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical &…
1943–
Leroy Reams (August 11, 1942 – July 14, 2026) was an American former professional baseball player. An outfielder, first baseman and third baseman by trade, he had a nine-year pro career but appeared in only one Major League game as a pinch hitter for the…
1936–
LeRoy W. Henderson, Jr. (born 1936, Richmond, Virginia) is an American photographer. He attended the Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts.
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