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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 America’s first black poets, Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872. He became Dayton’s 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 Duke’s 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 Ellington’s music. In 1928, Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement in which Mills produced and published Ellington’s music.
• Some of Ellington’s 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 1920’s, 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 1920’s. He became a poet in part of the Harlem Renaissance. He died in the 1930’s 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 Edison’s 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