MARIAN ANDERSON

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MARIAN ANDERSON

• BORN 1902
• DIED 1993
• SHE WAS AN OPERA SINGER WHO WAS DENIED THE RIGHT
  TO SING IN CONSTITUTION HALL. SHE WAS THE MOST
  POPULAR SINGER IN HER TIME.

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG

• BORN 1903
• DIED 1971
• ARMSTRONG WAS A FAMOUS TRUMPETER DURING THE JAZZ
  AGE. HE LOVED MUSIC ALL HIS LIFE.

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MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

• BORN 1875
• DIED 1955
• SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK CABINET. SHE
  FOUNDED BETHUNE-COOKMAN COLLEGE.

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RALPH BUNCHE

• BORN 1904
• DIED 1971
• BUNCHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK CABINET AND
  WORKED FOR THE STATE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS A
  GRADUATE FROM HARVARD.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

• BORN 1864
• DIED 1943
• HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AT
  TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. HE HELPED THE ECONOMY OF THE
  SOUTH BY HIS DISCOVERIES OF PLANT PRODUCTS.

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COUNTEE CULLEN

• BORN 1906
• DIED 1946
• CULLEN WAS RAISED IN A METHODIST PARSONAGE. HE
  WAS A WONDERFUL POET. HE WON MANY AWARDS FOR HIS
  POEM BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL.

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Benjamin O. Davis Sr.

• Benjamin was born in Washington D.C., on July 1,
  1877. He entered the military service on July 13,
  1898, during the war with Spain as a temporary
  first lieutenant of the 8th United States
  Volunteer.

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Benjamin Davis Jr.

• Benjamin O.Davis, Jr. was born in Washington,
  D.C., on December 18, 1912. He died on July 4,
  2002.
• He was first African-American in the United
  States Air Force.

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W.E.B DuBois

• He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
• He formed the (NAACP).

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

• Son of former slaves, and one of Americas first
  black poets, Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872.
  He became Daytons most notable man of letters,
  internationally famous as a poet and author.

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Duke Ellington

• Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899. In
  late 1917, Duke formed his first group The
  Dukes Serenaders. In 1923, Duke left the
  security that Washington offered him and moved to
  New York In 1928, Ellington and Irving Mills
  signed an agreement in which Mills produced and
  published Ellingtons music. In 1928, Ellington
  and Irving Mills signed an agreement in which
  Mills produced and published Ellingtons music.
• Some of Ellingtons greatest works include
  "Rockin in Rhythm," "Satin Doll," "New Orleans,"
  "A Drum is a Women," "Take the 'A' Train,"
  "Happy-Go-Lucky Local," "The Mooche," and
  "Crescendo in Blue."

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Marcus Garvey

• He was born to a poor family in Jamaica, the
  youngest of 11 children.
• He founded the (UNIA) in 1914, to promote racial
  unity and pride.

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LANGSTON HUGHES

• Langston Hughes was an African American writer.
  In the 1920s, Hughes joined the number of
  African American writers and artists who gathered
  in Harlem, an African American section of New
  York City. Hughes described his arrival in
  Harlem I can never put one paper the thrill of
  the underground ride to Harlem. I went up the
  steps and out into the September sunlight.
  Harlem! I stood there, dropped my bags, took a
  deep breath and felt happy again

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON

• Zora Neal Hurston was an African author who wrote
  stories, novels, anthropological folklore and and
  an autobiography. She died in 1960 but her works
  have increased in popularity and are passing the
  test of time staying power.

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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

• James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville,
  Florida. He graduated from Atlanta University in
  the 1920s. He became a poet in part of the
  Harlem Renaissance. He died in the 1930s in a
  car accident in Main.

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LEWIS HOWARD LATIMER

• Born in 1848, Lewis Howard Latimer, an African
  American engineer, developed an improved filament
  for the lightbulb and joined Thomas Edisons
  company. He died in 1928, but we still use his
  invention today

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MAGGIE LENA

• Maggie Lena was the first woman to become
  president of a local bank. She was born as a
  slave in 1867 in Richmond, Virginia. After
  graduating, she taught at the Lancaster School.
  In 1912, she helped found the Richmond Council of
  Colored Women. Walker died in 1934.

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JAN MATZELIGER

• Jan E Matzeliger was an African American
  inventor. He developed a shoe making machine that
  performed many steps previously done by hand. His
  device, which revolutionized the shoe industry,
  was adapted in shoe factories in the United
  States and over seas

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Elijah McCoy

• Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario,
  Canada on May 2, 1844. He died on October 10,
  1929.
• His first invention was a lubricator for steam
  engines, U.S. 129,843, which issued on July 12,
  1872.

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Claude McKay

• Born in 1890 in Casamance, southern Senegal on
  September 15th.
• His "If We Must Die" was published in the
  Liberator in 1919.

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Doris Miller

• Was born in Waco, Texas, on 12 October 1919, to
  Henrietta and Conery Miller.
• First African-American to use a weapon in World
  War II.

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Florence Mills

• Florence Mills was the first woman in musical
  comedy during the Harlem Renaissance
• Florence was born January 25,1896 and died on
  November 1,1927

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Philip Randolph

• Asa Philip Randolph was born in Cresent
  City,Florida on April 15,1889,and died in the
  year 1979
• Philip Randolph founded the Brotherhood of
  Sleeping Car Porters,a union for black pullman
  railroad car attendants

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PAUL ROBESON

• An Actor and Singer in the years of the Harlem
  Renaissance.

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BESSIE SMITH

• Singer.
• Known as the Empress of Blues

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Mary Church Terrel

• She was born in Memphis.
• She joined the struggle to gain equal right for
  African Americans.

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

• Rose up from slavery to be come a well known
  educator and leader of African Americans.

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ROBERT WEAVER

• Born Dec. 29, 1970.
• A noted Economist.
• Was the first black to serve in the U. S. Cabinet.

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Ida B. Wells

• Was the editor of an African American newspaper
  in Memphis,Tennessee.
• She wrote book called A Red Record.

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GRANVILLE WOODS

• Born April 23, 1856 Died January 30, 1910
  Birthplace Columbus, Ohio
• . And, in 1889, he filed his first patent for an
  improved steam-boiler furnace.

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MAJOR CHARLES YOUNG

• Higher ranking African American officer,
  commanded four units of African American troups
  in Cuba