SNCC Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee 1960 – 1976 founded by Ella Baker.

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Chuck D is a rapper, author and producer. Best known as the leader of Public Enemy.

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The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill is known as the first hip-hop album to earn Album of the Year

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George Curry, 1947 – 2016 dean of Black press columnists.

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Evelyn Boys Granville, born in 1924, was the second black woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University (1949). She worked as a Computer Scientist for IBM on the Project Vanguard and Project Mercury space programs and U.S. Space Technologies Laboratories. She was also a professor.

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The Jackson Street Hospital was established as the first institution of record solely for the care of Negroes, Augusta, GA; 1852.

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Archie Mountbatten-Windsor born May 6, 2019 is the first member of the British Royal family of Black descent by birth. He is the son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan. He has dual citizenship, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Statue of Liberty was designed to celebrate the end of slavery not immigrants.

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James Chaney, 1943 to 1964 one of three civil rights activists murdered during the Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

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