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Adapted her debut novel, 'The Resurrection of Alice', into a one-woman play that won the 2014 African-American Arts Alliance of Chicago Outstanding Actress Award, the 2014 Black Theater Alliance's Best Lead Actress Award (Chicago), etc
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Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
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Philanthropist
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American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard
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Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
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Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Author of The NYT bestseller, Bad Feminist. Editor for Gay Mag. Co-wrote 6 issues of a spin-off of Black Panther making her the 1st black woman to be a lead writer for Marvel
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Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement. Co-Awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
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Early Gay Rights figure, born 1936. Joined the Mattachine Society of Denver in 1957
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American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
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Child involved with the 1950's Briggs v. Elliott case incorporated as part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education Decision. His mother was the last living adult defendant when she died.
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Wife of Rev. Joseph Lowery, close friend and worker with MLK... Founder of SCLC
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Youtuber
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Well Known Temperance Speaker
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Participated in the 1963 Selma civil rights campaign as a 16 year old boy, including the 'Bloody Sunday' march
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Reverend to Rosa Park's Church; Secretary of the MIA aka Montgomery Improvement Association that helped support the boycott, appeared at meetings led by MLK
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White student who sued the Univ. of Michagan,for denying her admittance. Affirmative Action supporter and worker for
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Civil rights lawyer, preacher (born 1930). Defended Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the MIA during the Montgomery bus boycott. Worked with Martin Luther King and defended him in court. Named National Bar Association president in 1985
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Newspaper editor, politician and reformer. Encouraged readers to "Go West"
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Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. Author of In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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Organizes 'Wiener Opernball'
