Poet, composer, author, government official, teacher and influential civil rights activist, Johnson is perhaps best remembered for his novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as his work with the NAACP, where he served as secretary from ...
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Kenneth Dunkley earned a significant place in the history of black inventors by creating Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses (3-DVG). This patented invention displays 3-D effects from regular 2-D photos without any type of lenses, mirrors or optical el ...
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doing my studying and seeking, i have found that King James the first was a black man.. what is so hard to belive about that. when all HEBREW ISRAELITES of that time where a dark skin ed people .. so why dose the cecular world never teel you this fac ...
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Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American retired professional basketball player and businessman. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the ...
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LeRoy Wilton Homer, Jr. (August 27, 1965 – September 11, 2001) was the First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 33 ...
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www.sistajoy.com Mary McLeod Bethune was a woman of deep faith in God and deep faith in Self. She believed in taking action by using what she had! With only $1.50, she went forth in faith to build a school that now stands as Bethune Cookman Unive ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most powerful women in America and the world during the early part of the 20th Century. She founded Bethune-Cookman College, was a Presidential Advisor to four US Presidents, served as a organizer for the United Nat ...
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Mary, who was a geneticist, was born on June 26, 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee. She later moved to Miami. She was very smart and interested in science, especially medicine. ...
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Matthew Oliver Ricketts (3 April 1858 - 1917) was an American politician and physician. He was the first African-American state senator in the Nebraska Legislature, where he served for two terms. He was also the first African American to graduate fro ...
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Attorney Nathan Kellogg McGill
Nathan Kellogg McGill was the first African American to serve as assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois. He was also the first African American appointed to the Chicago Library Board.
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