Marcus Garvey advanced a philosophy to on economic empowerment focusing on the African continent known as Garveyism in the 1960’s.

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Yolanda King 1955 to 2007. She was an activist and an actress. Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

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John Singleton was born in 1968. He is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. In 1991 he was the first black person as well as the youngest person to be nominated for best director at the Academy Awards.

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Anita Hill is an attorney, writer, activist and academic. In 1991 she testified against then U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment. A polygraph revealed she was being truthful. Thomas refused a polygraph.

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Malcolm X, 1925 to 1965, Nation of Islam minister and civil rights activist.

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Winnie Mandela born 9/26/1938 died 4/2/2018. A.K.A. First Lady of South Africa and Mother of the Nation. She was a social worker, activist, and politician. She headed the African National Congress Women’s League. She was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, he was imprisoned for 27 of those years.

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Patrice Lumumba born 1925 executed in 1961. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo from June to September in 1960.

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Coretta Scott King born 1927, died 2006. She was a singer, civil rights activist and advocate and widow to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.n

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Blanche Bruce was the 1st black person elected to the U.S Senate by the Mississippi State Legislature, he was a Republican; 1875 to 1881.

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Merlie Evers born in 1933 is a journalist and civil rights activist. In 2013 she was the first woman and first layperson to deliver the invocation at a presidential inauguration. She is the widow of Medgar Evers.

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