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She made a daring escape from slavery in her twentees
She guided about 70 slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
March 1822
Dorchester County, MD
March 13 1913
Aubern NY
She was the first african woman to be honored on a postage stamp
By:Carlos
Broke the color barrier in major league baseball in 1947 by becoming the first African-American player.
Named National League Rookie of the Year in 1947.
Jackie Robinson
January 31, 1919
Cairo, GA
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October 24, 1972
North Stamford, Stamford, CT
Led the National League in stolen bases in 1947 and 1949.
By:Francis
At 22 years, he was the youngest boxer to unseat a reigning heavyweight champion.
He fought the Fight of the Century against Joe Frazier.
Muhammed Ali
January17th 1942
Louisville KY
June 3rd 2016
Scottsdale AZ
He won the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman.
By:Michael
He was also one of there leaders and helped out the cause
Langston Hughes
Febuary 1 1902
Joplin MO
May 22 1967
Stuyvesant Polyclinic
His work helped shape american literature and politics
By:Matthew
He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the african american artistic movement
Had several medals given to her. Inculding grammy awards and presidential awards
And she was an american activist,
She also met with martin luther king jr. she also raised money for southern chritian leadership
Maya Angelou
april 4, 1928
St. Louis, MO
May 28, 2014
Winston-Salem, NC
She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman.
By:Matteo
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Barack Obama
August 4 1961
Honolulu,Hawaii
By:Alexa
HE IS ALIVE
Improved school nutrition with the Healthy Hunger-free kids Act
He rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years
He is still alive
He was the first African-American president.
Madam C.J. walker was the first black woman millionaire in america
She also She built a large mansion in New York called the "Villa Lewaro."
Madam C. J. Walker
December 23,1869
Delta, La
May 15 1919
Irvington,NY
She also has a shampoo called urnbo's Wonderful Hair Grower, and both products contained sulfur The main ingredients in her famous shampoo were olive oil, coconut oil, and lye.
By:Maria
Was the first african-american woman to go to the moon
She wrote many books and appeared on some tv shows.
Mae C. Jemison
Oct. 17th 1956
Decatur, Alabama
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Mae C Jemison is a trained doctor and currently runs a medical technology company
By:Maxine
Booker t washinton put himself throuth school and became a teacher in the cival war
He founed the tuskegee normal and industrail institude in alabam
Booker T. Washington
APRIL 5 1856
NOVERBER 14 1915
He grewimmensely and focuesd on training afican americans in agricans pursuits
WESTLAKE CORNER VA
By:Miguel
TUSKEGEE AL
His success led to him being nominated by President Johnson into the Supreme Court, the highest court in America.
He was confirmed by a Senate vote of 96-11
Thurgood Marshall
July 2, 1908
Baltimore, Maryland
Jan. 24, 1993
Bethesda, Maryland.
He became the first African American Associate Justice of The Supreme Court.
By:Logan
He was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist,author, and public speaker.
He became a leader abolitionist movement which sought to end the practice of slavery before and during the civil war.
Frederick Douglass
February 14 1818
Cordova, Mariland
February 20 1895
Washington D.C.
After that conflict and the emancipation proclamation in 1862 he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death.
By:Oscar
She was also the only female American athlete to win a medal of any kind at these Olympics.
Alice Coachman
Nov 9 1923
albany , GA
She is a hero to all the girls who wanted to play a sport.
July 14 2014
Albany, GA
By:Kayla
Honored as one of the 100 Greatest Olympic Athletes
she completed the trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's.
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations helped get the first Americans to space and back safely, died today at the age of 101.
Katherine Johnson
August 26, 1918
White Sulphur springs, WV
February 24, 2020
Newport News, VA
She figured out the paths for the spacecraft to orbit (go around) Earth and to land on the Moon.
By:Miriam
