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- Ellen Tarry (1906–2008)
- Mildred D. Taylor
- Susie Taylor
- Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
- Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821)
- Michael Thelwell
- Joyce Carol Thomas, author, poet, playwright, and motivational speaker
- Lorenzo Thomas
- Piri Thomas
- Pamela Thomas-Graham
- Era Bell Thompson
- Wallace Thurman
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Jean Toomer
- Touré (born 1971)
- Askia M. Touré (born 1938), poet, essayist, leading voice of the Black Arts Movement
- Quincy Troupe
- Sojourner Truth
- Omar Tyree
- Harriet Tubman
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