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Who is Michelle Obama?
The most educated first lady to date.
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Who is Bessie Coleman?
Who was the first Black female pilot.
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Who is George Washington Carver?
He promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
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Who is Nelson Mandela?
(photo)
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Who is Fredrick Douglas?
A prominent Abolitionist author.
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Who is Maya Angelou?
She is an accomplished poet nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and a widely known Civil Rights activist.
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Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first Black baseball player in Major League Baseball
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What Loius Howard Latimer?
An American inventor and patent draftsmen of the light bulb and the telephone.
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Who is Shakira?
A world known singer from Columbia, her most recent performance was two weeks ago.
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Who is Laika the dog? (Also known as "little curly")
Was the first living creature to orbit the earth
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Who is Katherine Johnson?
She was the "human calculator" Project Mercury missions and for the Apollo Missions.
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Who are Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?
These women were the first Muslim women elected to congress.
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Who is Patricia Bath?
An early pioneer of laser cataract surgery.
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Who is Ghandi?
An Indian Lawyer who campaigned for India's independence from Britain.
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Who is Guion Bluford?
They were the first black astronaut.
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Who is Harriet Tubman?
She will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill this year.
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Who is Maria Tallchief (Elizabeth Maria Tall Cheif)
She was the first Native American ballerina and the first Prima Ballerina
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Who Charles Drew?
This person was a researching pioneer for blood transfusions
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Who are the Tuskeegee Air Men?
One of the most Air Force fighter squadrons in WWII
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Who is Benjamin O. Davis Sr.?
The first African American general for the US Army
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Who is Coretta Scott King?
She took over leading the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's after her husband was assassinated.
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Who is Franklin R. Chang Diaz?
The first Hispanic Astronaut, selected by NASA in 1980.
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Who is Garret Morgan?
Inventor of the three position traffic signal and smoke hood
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Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
This person was a Haitian and Puerto Rican Artists with street art rivaling that of Warhol.
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Who is Bob Marley?
Higher than a roller coaster.
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