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Episcopal deacon Scott Elliott imposes ashes on a passerby in 2011 in Chicago as part of a growing "Ashes to Go" program in the Episcopal Church.
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| Feb 22, 2012

A. Philip Randolph was the co-leader with Martin Luther King of the 1963 March on Washington and was the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black union.
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| Feb 22, 2012

Mandisa Thomas of Atlanta is featured alongside Langston Hughes on a billboard in Atlanta that's part of a campaign featuring icons of the civil rights movement who were not religious, sponsored by the group African Americans for Humanism.
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| Feb 22, 2012

African Americans for Humanism have erected billboards in several cities featuring black icons, including Langston Hughes on this billboard in Atlanta, alongside African-American atheists.
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| Feb 22, 2012

Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and journalist, was most famous for her partly autobiographical play, "A Raisin in the Sun."
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| Feb 22, 2012

W.E.B. du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP. Du Bois described himself as a freethinker and was sometimes critical of the black church.
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| Feb 22, 2012

James Baldwin, poet, playwright and Civil Rights activist. Baldwin, once a Pentecostal preacher, never publicly declared his atheism, but was critical of religion.
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| Feb 22, 2012

Hubert Henry Harrison promoted positive racial consciousness among African Americans and proudly declared his atheism.
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| Feb 22, 2012

Carter G. Woodson was a journalist, historian and the founder of Black History Month, which evolved from his first idea of "Negro History Week."
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| Feb 22, 2012

Richard Wright, best known as a novelist, wrote a memoir entitled "Black Boy."
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| Feb 22, 2012

W.E.B. du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP. Du Bois described himself as a freethinker and was sometimes critical of the black church.
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