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Cicely Tyson is a legendary African American actress. She is known for her remarkable performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and The Help, and has been nominated for a BAFTA Award and won two Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for highly prestigious Academy Award and the Golden
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(1886) Alexander Crummell, “Common Sense in Common Schooling”
On September 13, 1886, Alexander Crummell preached a sermon at his church,  St. Luke’s Church in Washington, D.C. where he challenged many of the prevailing ideas about the importance of classical education.  His sermon is reprinted
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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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Saint Lucia
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Selma
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Althea Gibson, a sharecropper’s daughter, entered the world of sports when segregation severely limited opportunities for African Americans. She eventually became the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis and
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Kerry Washington
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Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson was a tennis player and later professional golfer who became the first African American woman to cross the racial barrier and compete professionally in both sports. She was born on August 25, 1927 in South Carolina. Her family was under severe financial duress due to the Great
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(1984) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “The Rainbow Coalition”
In 1984 Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigned for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Although he entered the Democratic convention at San Francisco with little hope of winning, his appeals on behalf of the dispossessed of America whom he characterized as the Rainbow Coalition, ensured that his
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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
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Sugar Ray Leonard
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George Washington Carver
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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"
The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven
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