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Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks is remembered as the first American to die in the colonists’ fight for freedom from Britain.Crispus Attucks was an escaped slave of African and Native American descent.He was a part of the Revoulutionary War. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQYUVmazF0VDAtZVk/view?usp=sharing -
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Sojourner Truth
As an abolitionist, she helped runaway slaves.Sojourner Truth was also an African-American women's rights activist.
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was the Underground Railroad leader.She lead slaves that had escaped out of slavery to the north where it was a free country.She was once a slave but escaped at night with the help of white people who were in an organization called the Underground Railroad.( https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQblo1cUNMbHl4UUE/view?usp=sharing ) -
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington known as the black educator who started the Tuskegee Institute.He was the first teacher and principal championed learning and job training as the path to black self-reliance and success in America. Well-known as a powerful speaker. He rejected Washington’s idea that blacks should accept an inferior status for the present as they worked to improve themselves for the future. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQdDdQNllfQ2ttODg/view?usp=sharing -
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George Washington Carver
Taught former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency; known for suggesting hundreds of uses for the peanut, other plants. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQTDJOQ2JYYTFiR2s/view?usp=sharing -
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Marian Anderson
First African-American to perform on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQZHZObkVDYWxTbUk/view?usp=sharing -
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. He was known for his portrayals of black life in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQNVhMaENHNFRyaXM/view?usp=sharing -
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks rebelled over the law that segregated blacks and whites bus rule.She went to jail because she refused to giver her seat to a white on the bus.This resulted a bus boycott by African-Americans revered by Martin Luther King Jr.The boycott was a success and led the desegregation through the U.S,she became a national icon of civil right and African-American pride. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQOUpQVmZNLXctQWM/view?usp=sharing -
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Katherine Johnson
She was hired by NASA to calculate Astronaut John Glenn when he went into orbit. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQdDdQNllfQ2ttODg/view?usp=sharing -
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, he showed everybody ,even with their different race they could play baseball.He was the first person to play majorly baseball.He played with the Brooklyn Dodgers.He was named Rookie of the year that year.They won the World Series. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQdDdQNllfQ2ttODg/view?usp=sharing -
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was a black civil rights activist murdered .Evers traveled Mississippi trying to encourage voter registration and working to enforce federally-mandated integration laws. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQWTBMY2JVU0lDQVk/view?usp=sharing -
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Coretta Scott King
Coreta was married to Martin Luther King Jr.. She was known as a community leader. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQUEx3TDZhZC1HNGM/view?usp=sharing -
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Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan was a famous basketball player who played with the Chicago Bulls tand won six NBA championships and won the Most Valuable Player Award five times https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQVFVNLWVESGE1dDg/view?usp=sharing -
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Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.She was nominated in 2011 for the International Children’s Peace Prize, and that same year won Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize.She let woman have the same education and rights as the men/boys. https://drive.google.com/a/sausd.us/file/d/0BwjTbNX6v2GQcGJrSzE2LV9mdVk/view?usp=sharing