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Who is Tiger Woods?
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
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Who is Harriet Tubman?
She said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'.
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Who is Colin Powell?
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
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Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
He said "The time is always right to do what is right".
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Who is Booker T. Washington?
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
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Who is Maya Angelou?
She said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
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Who is Toni Morrison?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Who is Muhammad Ali?
The famous athlete that said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
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