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Jean-Jacques Dessalines b1758; Created governor and proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I of Haiti in 1804
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Robert Carlos Delarge b1842; One of the first Americans to be elected to the US House of Representatives in 1870
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Bernard Davis b1903; Appointed editor of the Daily Worker and the Harlem Liberator
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Benjamin Oliver Davis b1877; Promoted to Brigadier-General in 1940 becoming first black American to reach this rank
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Angela Yvonne Davis b1944; Joined the CP and wrote If They Come In the Morning: Voices of Resistance 
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David Dacko b1930; Became the leader of the Mouvement d'Evolution Sociale de l'Afrique Noire
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Paul Cuffe b1759; Became master of his ship at 25 and organized emigration of 40 Americans to Sierra Leone in 1815
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William Cuffay b1788; President of the Chartist Metropolitan Delegate Conference in 1842
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Cudjoe; Born in west Africa before becoming a slave in Jamaica, led rebellion that transformed to the First Maroon War
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Alexander Crummel b1819; Founded the American Negro Academy in 1897 and wrote Future of Africa
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Ellen Craft b1826; Escaped to Philadelphia from slavery and wrote Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom in 1868 
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John George Melvin Compton b1926; Founded National Labour Movement in St Lucia
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Coffy died 1763; Led a rebellion of slaves in Berbice becoming first national hero of Guyana
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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver b1935; Senior editor of  Ramparts magazine and wrote Soul on Ice
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Septima Poinsette Clark b1898; Organized Freedom Schools in the southern states to help black Americans pass literacy test
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Henri Christophe b1767; Joined rising against the French led by Toussaint in 1794 becoming general
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Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo b1923; First black barrister in Southern Rhodesia and led armed struggle against white Rhodesian regime
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