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Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an African American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332d Expeditionary Operations Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
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Samuel Jesse Battle was the first black police officer in New York City. After attending segregated schools in North Carolina, Battle moved north, first to Connecticut, then to New York City, where he took a job as a train porter and began studying for the New York City Police Department civil service exam.
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Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson, better known as Jackie Robinson, was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947
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Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA and is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966.
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Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. He also worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. He was awarded the 1963 NAACP Spingarn Medal. He was was assassinated in 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson, Mississippi.
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William Henry Hastie Jr. was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, and as a federal appellate judge
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
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Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't".
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Jesse LeRoy Brown was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the U.S. Navy's basic flight training program, was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War.
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Madam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice.
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Mae C. Jemison is the first African American female astronaut. On June 4, 1987, Jemison became the first African American woman to be admitted into NASAās astronaut training program. In 1992, she finally became the first African American woman in space, serving as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour!
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Dr. Samuel L. Koontz he was the head of surgery at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn for five years and had performed 500 kidney transplants, then believed to be the most in the world. He was also chief of general surgery at Kings County Hospital Center and was an international leader in transplant surgery.
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Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on BedfordāStuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.
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Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. Best known for her tv talk show, The Oprah Winfrey show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Oprah went on to start her own network/channel called OWN also known as Oprah Winfrey Network. Oprah overcame horrendous events to become the pioneer she is today, and today we celebrate her!
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Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community
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George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century
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Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license. She earned her license from the FĆ©dĆ©ration AĆ©ronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license.ā
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Herrera grew up in a family of migrant workers who traveled throughout California, taking work where they could and often living in tents. In middle school, herrera was a very creative child, he enjoyed drawing cartoons. Eventually settling in San Diego, Herrera graduated from high school and received a scholarship to UCLA. He later earned a masterās degree from Stanford and an MFA from the renowned Iowa Writerās Workshop. As his career flourished, his experiences as a poor campesino continued to influence his writing. In 2015, Herrera was named poet laureate, one of literatureās most distinctive honors. He became the first Chicano to receive the award.
Nydia Velazquez holds the honor of being the most current women on the list as she still serves in the US House of Representatives, a position sheās held for fifteen years. Ms.Velazquez was born to a family of poor sugarcane farmers, who became self-taught political activists. She recalls a childhood where politics were always discussed at the dinner table, usually focused on workerās rights. After being the first in her family to graduate high school, Ms. Velazquez arrived on the mainland, eventually receiving her MA in political science from New York University. After returning to Puerto Rico to teach for a few years, Ms. Velazquez came back to the mainland and began her political career. She worked herself up from the bottom, starting as a representativeās aide. She soon secured a seat on the New York City Council and within eight years, was elected to Congress. Ms. Velazquez continues to advocate for human and civil rights for the Puerto Rican people to this day.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia, a proud Mexican American, had an amazing life! He was born on January 17,1914. During his lifetime he was a physician, surgeon, a veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia led a long, decorated career as a US Army officer who served in World War II, earning six Bronze Stars for his efforts. But perhaps his bravest mission involved putting his name on the line for a fellow fallen soldier. In 1945, Army Private FĆ©lix Longoria was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Philippines. Longoriaās body was returned to his native Three Rivers, Texas, where his family sought to use a funeral chapel in the town. However, Longoriaās family was rebuffed when the funeral director stated that āthe whites wonāt like itā if the service were held at the chapel. After hearing about Longoriaās story, Garcia lobbied then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to correct the situation. Johnson eventually heard about Garciaās efforts and agreed that Longoria be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1948, Dr. Hector Garcia founded the American G.I. Forum (AGIF). The AGIF is a congressionally charted Hispanic veterans and civil rights organization. This organization is still around today doing amazing work to help promote education and civil rights.
In 1967, he was made a representive to the United Nations. In 1968, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia, a proud Mexican American, had an amazing life! He was born on January 17,1914. During his lifetime he was a physician, surgeon, a veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia led a long, decorated career as a US Army officer who served in World War II, earning six Bronze Stars for his efforts. But perhaps his bravest mission involved putting his name on the line for a fellow fallen soldier. In 1945, Army Private FĆ©lix Longoria was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Philippines. Longoriaās body was returned to his native Three Rivers, Texas, where his family sought to use a funeral chapel in the town. However, Longoriaās family was rebuffed when the funeral director stated that āthe whites wonāt like itā if the service were held at the chapel. After hearing about Longoriaās story, Garcia lobbied then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to correct the situation. Johnson eventually heard about Garciaās efforts and agreed that Longoria be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1948, Dr. Hector Garcia founded the American G.I. Forum (AGIF). The AGIF is a congressionally charted Hispanic veterans and civil rights organization. This organization is still around today doing amazing work to help promote education and civil rights.
In 1967, he was made a representive to the United Nations. In 1968, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sylvia Mendez was born in 1936 and grew up at a time when Hispanics were sent to āMexican schoolsā and not allowed to attend schools designated for āWhites Only.ā Realizing the white schools had access to better books and other educational benefits, Sylviaās aunt wished for her family to attend a white school. The aunt was told that her lighter-skinned children could attend the school but the eight year-old Sylvia could not because her skin was darker. After Sylvia was denied enrollment to the white school, her parents sued the California public school system. After years of litigation, Sylvia was finally allowed to attend and became the first Hispanic to enroll in a āWhites Onlyā school. The case paved the way for the more well-known Brown v. Board of Education case less than ten years later. In 2011, President Obama awarded Mendez with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the countryās highest civilian honor.
Born in 1859 in Allende, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Octaviano Larrazolo would go on to influence US thinking on Hispanic issues. Larrazolo came to Arizona in 1875 with Reverend J.B. Salpointe, who taught Larrazolo theology. Larrazolo taught in Tucson for a year before eventually settling in Las Vegas, New Mexico and became involved with the stateās Democratic Party. Working his way up the political chain, Larrazolo was elected Governor of New Mexico in 1918. He was then elected to the Senate in 1928, becoming the first Hispanic to accomplish such a feat. Sadly, Larrazolo fell ill soon after taking office and died just six months into his term. But the unfortunate end didnāt prevent Octaviano Larrazolo from making his permanent mark on Hispanic and US history.
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