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This person started a school in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and framing.

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Booker T Washington

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This person started a newspaper called "The North Star".

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Fredrick Douglas

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This person refused to give up a seat on the bus. That led to a 382 day bus boycott by black people in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Rosa Parks

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When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold as a slave.

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George Washington Carver

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Because this person led so many slave to freedom, he or she was sometimes called Moses.

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Harriet Tubman

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This person was a doctor who spent two years working with poor people in Africa before she went on to become famous.

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Mae Jemison

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One of 13 children, this person birth name was Isabella Baumfree.

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Sojourner Truth

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The president named this person to be the first black to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court on the land.

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Thurgood Marshall

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In 1962, this person became the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Jackie Robinson

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This person performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous.

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Jesse Owens

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This person invented a machine, called a "lasting machine," that stitched the leather shoe to its sole.

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Jan Matzeliger

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This person served 3 years in reform school for attempted burglary before writing many famous rock-in-roll songs.

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Chuck Berry

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This person sang in church choirs while growing up as the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers.

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Leontyne Price

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This person worked at childcare center before becoming a well-known political figure.

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Shirley Chisholm

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A Nation of Islam minister at one time, this person was assassinated while giving a speech in 1965.

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Malcom X

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Given first and middle names at birth were "Edward Kennedy".

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Duke Ellington

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The first black congresswomen to be elected from the Deep South.

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Barbara Jordan

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A Harvard grad, played a role in starting the National Association from the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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W.E.B DuBois

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This person helped register black voters in Mississippi and led boycotts there of firms that practiced racial that practiced racial discrimination.

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Medgar Evans

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awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in making a Arab-Israeli peace in 1949.

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Ralph Bunche

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This lay preacher led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831.

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Nat Turner

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This person, who was 1/13, died in an airplane crash.

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Bessie Coleman

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This person, who was famous writer of piano music, was known as the "King of Ragtime".

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Scott Joplin

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When first out of college, this person worked as a TV news reporter.

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Oprah Winfrey

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This person, a well-known trumpet player, was known by the nickname "Satchmo".

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Louis Armstrong

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This person attend the University of California on a tennis scholarship.

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Arthur Ashe

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This person was a teacher in Mississippi before she became a well-known journalist.

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Ida-Wells Barnett

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This person was appointed by President George Washington to help survey the land that would become Washington DC.

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Ben Banneker

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This person was the world heavyweight boxing champ in 1937 to 1949.

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Joe Louis

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wrote proudly of black people in books, poems and plays.

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Langston Hughs

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IN 1870, this person was the first black to serve in the US House of Representatives.

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Joe Hayne Rainy

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This person, the child of former slaves, invented the ironing board, the lawn sprinkler, and many other useful things.

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Elijah McCoy

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one of the first people killed in the cause of American Independence.

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Crispus Attucks

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This civil rights advocate told her life story in the book "A Colored Women in a White World".

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Mary Eliza Church Terrell

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This person, the 15th of 17 children to born of former slaves, grew up to become a college president.

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Mary McClead

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This herons, the child of ex-slaves, developed a hair product and died a millionaire.

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Madame CJ Walker

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Many consider this fur and grain trader to be the founder of the city of Chicago.

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Jean Baptist

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This former col mine worker born to former slaves got a degree from Harvard and started "Black History Month".

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Carter G Woodson

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Many consider this doctor to be the originator of the Blood Black concept.

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Charles Drew

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This person, the child of a runaway slave, was a football All- American and well known actor and singer.

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Paul Rebesson

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