List+of+Artists+and+Musicians

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 * **Artist** || **Dates** || **Medium** ||
 * Charles Alston || 1907-1977 || Painter/Sculptor ||
 * Henry Bannarn || 1910-1965 || Painter ||
 * Romare Beardon || 1911-1988 || Painter ||
 * Richmond Barthe || 1901-1989 || Sculptor ||
 * Allan Rohan Crite || 1910-2007 || Painter ||
 * Beauford Delaney || 1901-1979 || Painter ||
 * Aaron Douglas || 1899-1979 || Painter ||
 * Meta Warrick Fuller || 1877-1968 || Sculptor ||
 * Palmer Hayden || 1890-1973 || Painter ||
 * Sargent Claude Johnson || 1887-1967 || Sculptor ||
 * William H. Johnson || 1901-1970 || Painter ||
 * Lois Mailou Jones || 1905-1998 || Painter ||
 * Jacob Lawrence || 1917-2000 || Painter ||
 * Norman Lewis || 1920-1979 || Painter ||
 * Archibald Motley || 1891-1981 || Painter ||
 * Augusta Savage || 1892-1961 || Sculptor ||
 * Dox Thrash || 1892-1965 || Printmaker ||
 * James Van Der Zee || 1886-1983 || Photographer ||


 * **Musician** || **Dates** || **Instrument** ||
 * Marian Anderson || 1897-1993 || Vocalist ||
 * Louis Armstrong || 1901-1971 || Trumpet (Vocalist) ||
 * Count Basie || 1904-1984 || Pianist (Band Leader) ||
 * Josephine Baker || 1906-1975 || Vocalist ||
 * Cab Calloway || 1907-1994 || Vocalist (Band Leader) ||
 * Edward Kennedy Ellington || 1889-1974 || Pianist (Band Leader) ||
 * Ella Fitzgerald || 1917-1996 || Vocalist ||
 * Dizzy Gillespie || 1917-1993 || Trumpet ||
 * Billie Holiday || 1915-1959 || Vocalist ||
 * Lena Horne || 1917-2010 || Vocalist ||
 * Thelonious Monk || 1917-1982 || Pianist ||
 * Jelly Roll Morton || 1890-1941 || Pianist (Band Leader) ||
 * Ma Rainey || 1982 (or 1886)-1939 || Vocalist ||
 * Bessie Smith || 1882 (or 1894)-1937 || Vocalist ||
 * Billy Strayhorn || 1915-1967 || Pianist ||
 * Fats Waller || 1904-1943 || Pianist ||
 * Ethel Waters || 1896-1977 || Vocalist ||