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He was elected as the first African-American President of the United States in 2008.
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Barack Obama
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She escaped from slavery and helped over three hundred Southern slaves escape to the North by using the Underground Railroad, a network of people who hid slaves until they got safely to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman
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He was a minister, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and a civil rights leader who led peaceful demonstrations against discrimination. He was assassinated in 1968.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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While riding a bus in Atlanta, Georgia, she refused to give up her seat to a white man and was taken to jail for this action.
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Rosa Parks
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He was the first African-American member of the Supreme Court.
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Thurgood Marshall
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He was a scientist who developed new products from peanuts, soy beans, and sweet potatoes to help Southern farmers make more money.
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George Washington Carver
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He protested against discrimination and became one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. He also edited the NAACP’s magazine, called The Crisis.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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She was born in Houston, Texas. She became an educator, a lawyer, the first African-American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, and the first southern Black female elected to the United States House of Representatives.
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Barbara Jordan
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She became a symbol of the Civil Right Movements when she, at age 6, and other children became the first group of African-American students to integrate schools.
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Ruby Bridges
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In 2001, he was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry as the first African-American Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. In 2004, he was appointed the first African-American Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
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Wallace Jefferson
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They were the first African-American military aviators in the armed forces and got their nickname, “Red Tails,” when they painted the tails of their P-47 planes red.
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Tuskegee Airmen
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She was born in Atlanta Texas. She was the first African-American female pilot and the first African-American to hold an international pilot license.
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Bessie Coleman
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He was the first African-American to be chosen as Secretary of State, and the first and only African-American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (senior leaders in the Department of Defense who advise the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council, and the President on military issues).
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Colin Powell
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He was a trumpet player and singer who helped make jazz music more widely appreciated in the 1920’s.
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Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
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He was the first African-American player to participate in major league baseball, and went on to become Rookie of the Year and League MVP.
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Jackie Robinson
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A celebration of family, community, self-determination, and culture which occurs every December 26 through January 1 in the United States, Africa, and other countries.
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Kwanzaa
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She escaped from slavery and became a religious leader, a person who worked to help end slavery (abolitionist), a provider of supplies to black Union soldiers, a supporter of women’s rights, and a public speaker.
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Sojourner Truth
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Three red, three green, and one black candle are placed in this special holder to represent the 7 symbols of Kwanzaa.
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kinara
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The practice of owning another person.
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slavery
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This document issued by President Abraham Lincoln granted freedom to all slaves in Confederate states during the Civil War.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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A four-syllable word that means may different types of people in in one group.
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diversity
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The oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
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Juneteenth
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She was the first woman to ever serve as the head of the National Security Council. In 2005, she became the first African-American woman to serve as secretary of state.
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Condoleezza Rice
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She represents the 18th Congressional District of Texas, which includes Houston, sits on three Congressional committees, and is currently serving her seventh term in Congress.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
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Called a “Trumpet for Freedom,” this man was a former slave who gave speeches, wrote books, and published a newspaper called “North Star” to inform people about why slavery was wrong.
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Frederick Douglass
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He was a speaker who told African-Americans that they should fight for their rights in any way that they could. He was also a Muslim religious leader.
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Malcolm X
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She was the first African-American astronaut.
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Mae Jemison
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