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==Notable people== * [[Edward W. Brooke]], former Massachusetts Senator who was the first black senator after [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]] and the first from the [[Northern United States]]<ref name="nyt-Calmes"/><ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place">{{Cite web |title=A Place of Our Own: The Place |url=http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/placeofourown/place.html |access-date=September 11, 2017 |website=[[Independent Lens]] |publisher=[[PBS]] |date=February 17, 2004 }}</ref> * [[Bebe Moore Campbell]], writer<ref name="nyt-Green-2005"/> * [[Stephen L. Carter]], Yale law professor and writer. Carter based his first novel, ''[[The Emperor of Ocean Park]]'', in Oak Bluffs<ref name="stephenlcarter">{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-obamas-summer-hideaway|title=The Obamas' Summer Hideaway|last=Carter|first=Stephen L.|date=April 8, 2009|website=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=February 26, 2018}}</ref> * [[Suzzanne Douglas]] Cobb, actress, singer, dancer<ref>{{Citation|title=Suzzanne Douglas|date=July 10, 2021|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzzanne_Douglas&oldid=1032924418|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref> * [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]], professor, author, and filmmaker<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-IndieWire"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Roosevelt|first=Laura D.|title=A Conversation with Skip Gates|url=http://www.mvmagazine.com/news/2008/08/01/conversation-skip-gates|website=[[Martha's Vineyard Magazine]]|access-date=September 11, 2017|date=August 1, 2008}}</ref> * [[Charlayne Hunter-Gault]], journalist and author<ref name="nymag-toure" /><ref name="tac-carter" /> * [[Lani Guinier]], professor and former nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights<ref name="wp-Guinier">{{cite news|last=French|first=Mary Ann|title=THE VINYARD'S OH-SO-COZY ALLURE|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/08/19/the-vinyards-oh-so-cozy-allure/6b40d1cf-8ef1-406d-a1cf-3605a1574183/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=September 11, 2017|date=August 19, 1993}}</ref><ref name="nyt-Guinier">{{cite web|last=Rimer|first=Sara|title=Two Old Friends Share Island, but Nothing Else|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/us/two-old-friends-share-island-but-nothing-else.html?mcubz=0|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 11, 2017|date=August 24, 1993}}</ref> * [[Sunny Hostin]], lawyer, author, and television host. Hostin based her first novel, ''Summer on the Bluffs'', in Oak Bluffs<ref name="sunnyhostin">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/books/review/summer-on-the-bluffs-sunny-hostin.html|title=When Your Name Is Sunny (Hostin), Your Beach Read Belongs on the Best-Seller List|last=Egan|first=Elisabeth|date=May 20, 2021|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 28, 2024}}</ref> * [[Reggie Hudlin]], filmmaker<ref name="nymag-toure">{{cite web|author=Touré|author-link=Touré (journalist)|title=Black and White on Martha's Vineyard|url=http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/#|website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=March 23, 2014|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * [[Valerie Jarrett]], senior advisor to President Obama<ref name="nyt-Calmes" /><ref name="tac-carter">{{cite web|last=Carter|first=Ash|title=How Oak Bluffs Became a Summer Haven for the African-American Elite|url=http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/|website=[[Town & Country (magazine)|Town and Country]]|date=June 29, 2016|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * [[Vernon Jordan]], lawyer and former presidential advisor<ref name="nyt-Calmes" /><ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /> * [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [[civil rights movement]] activist and [[List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates|Nobel Peace Prize laureate]]<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /> * [[Spike Lee]], filmmaker and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, a lawyer and television producer<ref name="nyt-Green-2005"/> * [[Emma Chambers Maitland]], dancer and boxer<ref>{{Cite web|last=Waring|first=Pat|date=June 24, 2015|title=Welcome to the trail, Emma Maitland|url=https://www.mvtimes.com/2015/06/24/welcome-to-the-trail-emma-maitland/|access-date=June 4, 2020|website=The Martha's Vineyard Times|language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Helen Manning]], Native American historian, activist and writer, taught at Oak Bluffs School from 1968 to 1984<ref name="interview">{{cite web |title=Oral History Unit: An Interview with Aquinnah Wampanoag Elder Helen Manning |url=http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/pages/wampanoag_education/manning?textPage=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140237/http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/pages/wampanoag_education/manning?textPage=1 |quotation=I was the only person of color in the (school) system in Oak Bluffs, Gay Head, or Vineyard Haven until the late 1960s when there was Daniel Burgo, Wanza and Bettie Davis and Bob Tankard. You could count us on one hand.|archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=January 17, 2023 |website=Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)}}</ref><ref name="trail">{{cite web |title=The African-American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard |url=https://mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org/trail-sites/pioneer-educators |access-date=January 17, 2023 |date=2021}}</ref> * [[Manning Marable]], professor and author<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-thefilm">{{Cite web |title=A Place of Our Own: The Film |url=http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/placeofourown/film.html |access-date=September 11, 2017 |website=[[Independent Lens]] |publisher=[[PBS]] |date=February 17, 2004 }}</ref> * [[Jill Nelson]], author and journalist<ref name="nyt-Green-2005">{{cite web|last=Green|first=Penelope|title=An Island, A House, A Family, Summer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/realestate/an-island-a-house-a-family-summer.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 11, 2017|date=July 3, 2005}}</ref><ref name="nyt-Nelson-1993">{{cite web|last=Nelson|first=Jill|title=At Home on an Island|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/style/at-home-on-an-island.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 11, 2017|date=August 22, 1993}}</ref> * [[Stanley Nelson]], documentary filmmaker. His documentary, ''A Place Of Our Own'', aired on the [[PBS]] series ''[[Independent Lens]]''<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-IndieWire">{{cite web|last= Okoi-Obuli|first=Wendy|title=The History, Significance & Changing Landscape of an African American Resort Community in Stanley Nelson's 'A Place Of Our Own'|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/02/the-history-significance-changing-landscape-of-an-african-american-resort-community-in-stanley-nelsons-a-place-of-our-own-156474/|website=[[IndieWire]]|date=February 10, 2004|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="placeOfOurOwn-pbs">{{Cite episode |title=A Place of Our Own |url=http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/placeofourown/film.html |access-date=September 11, 2017 |series=Independent Lens |series-link=Independent Lens |network=[[PBS]] |date=February 17, 2004 }}</ref><ref name="placeOfOurOwn-variety" /> * [[Peter Norton]], founder of [[Peter Norton Computing]] which developed the [[Norton Utilities]]. * [[Charles Ogletree]], professor and lawyer<ref name="nymag-toure" /><ref name="tac-carter" /> * [[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]], congressman, and his former wife Isabel Powell, sister of actress [[Fredi Washington]]<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /><ref name="wp-Brown"/><ref name="placeOfOurOwn-variety">{{cite web|last=Leydon|first=Joe|title=Review: 'A Place of Our Own'|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/a-place-of-our-own-1200536995/|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 18, 2004|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * [[Paul Robeson]], actor<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /> * [[Adele Y. Schonbrun]], artist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adele Y. Schonbrun, Prolific Ceramic Artist |url=https://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2017/06/01/adele-y-schonbrun-prolific-ceramic-artist |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News |language=en}}</ref> * [[Carole Simpson]], former ABC News anchor<ref name="nymag-toure" /> * [[Louis Wade Sullivan]], former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /> * [[Ethel Waters]], singer<ref name="placeOfOurOwn-place" /> * [[Dorothy West]], author<ref name="nyt-Calmes"/><ref name="wp-Brown"/>
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