Notable Figures in Black History

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seamstress refused to give up her seat on Montgomery bus

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Rosa Parks

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minister who fought for civil rights

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Martin Luther King

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1st black major baseball player

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Jackie Robinson

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heptathlon silver medalist in olympics

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Jackie Joyner Kersee

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teacher, Bethune Cookman College for girls

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Abolitionist who fought to end slavery

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Frederick Douglass

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1st black US supreme court

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Thurgood Marshall

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Teacher after civil war, encouraged to learn a craft or trade

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Booker T. Washington

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father of negro history week

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Carter G. Woodson

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1st black pilot

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Bessie Coleman