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26 Cards in this Set
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Marian Wright Edelman
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educator, lawyer, and children's rights activist
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Tom Bradley
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first black mayor of LA
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James Van Der Zee
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first black photographer
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Naomi Sims
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first black super model
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Edward Wilburn
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first black car designer of the Oldsmobile
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Carole Simpson
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journalist and first black to be hired on a major tv station
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Maya Angelou
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first black poet to be an inaugurational poet/her most famous book is called, "I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing"
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John Conyers
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first black U.S. Representative
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Wally Amos
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Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies/first black talent agent for the William Morris Agency
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Harry Belafonte
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black singer, actor, and producer/most famous for his Calypso song
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Jan Matzelinger
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first black inventor/made shoe machine
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Charles Fuller
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black playwright/most famous playwright is "A Soldier's Story"
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Robert C. Maynard
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first black to own a major newspaper
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Mae Jemison
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first black female astronaut
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Maggie Walker
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/first black woman to be a bank president
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Carol Braun
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first black woman to be on the U.S. Senate
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W.C. Handy
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Father of the Blues/composer and band leader/known for writing the "Memphis Blues"
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Barry Gordy
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pro boxer/songwriter of "Motown"
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Shelby Steele
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educator and scholar/spent his life writing about the true meaning of "black politics"
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Jackie Robinson
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first black pro baseball player
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Daniel "Chappie" James
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airforce/the first black 4-star general in the U.S.
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Henry Johnson
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most famous black soldier to have fought in WWI/sergeant
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Joe Clark
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educator/tough high school principal/movie was made about his life called "Lean on Me"
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Marcelite Harris
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first black woman to be in the Air Force/general
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Rebecca Cole
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first black woman to establish a medical practice in Philedelphia, PA
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Clarence Page
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first black columnist to be awarded a Pulitzer award
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