Abebe Bikila 8/7/1932-1960, was an Ethiopian runner who won the 1960 Summer Olympics 10,000 meter race barefoot.

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Beah Richards 1920-2000 was an actress, poet, author and playwright. She was a member and organizer with the Communist Party USA in Los Angeles.

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Jesse Owens 1913-1980 was a track and field athlete. He won four gold medals in the 1936 “Olympic Games”.

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Simone Biles 1997 first woman gymnast to successfully land a triple-double in a floor exercise in August 2019.

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Willmer “Little Ax” Broadnax 1916 – 1992 transgender gospel singer.

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Dovie Hudson 1914-1994 is the sister of Winson Hudson, she was an activist for Black equality against white supremacy in Mississippi.

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Rachel Robinson born in 1922 is a former professor, registered nurse and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson.

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Isaac Murphy 1861-1896 was a “Hall of Fame” jockey.

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Althea Simmons 1924-1990 was the head of the Washington branch of the N.A.A.C.P since 1979 and the chief lobbyist in the capital. She successfully lobbied for the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982.

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Max Robinson (1939-1988) served as a co-anchor for ABC World News Tonight. He was the first Black broadcast network news anchor in the history of American television and one of the original founders of the National Association of Black Journalists bacon 1978.

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