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Sidney Dearing
1870–1953
United States
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Sidney Allen "Sid" Dearing (March 8, 1870 – October 6, 1953) was an American businessperson. He owned the Creole Cafe in Oakland, California. Dearing was Black Seminole, and in the 1920s he and his family were the subject of racial discrimination and hate crimes in Piedmont, California.
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