Benjamin Banneker
Mathematician and scientist Benjamin Banneker is credited for designing the layout of Washington, D.C.
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Georgia Gilmore
Georgia Gilmore, cook and activist who organized others and whose project “The Club from Nowhere” fed and funded alternate transportation during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.
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In the Netherlands and United Kingdom Black History Month is celebrated in October.
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Usain Bolt first man to win three world records in a single Olympics in 2008.
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Stacey Abrams in 2019 became the first black woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address.
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Lolo Jones, one of the few athletes to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics in 2008 and 2014.
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Mike Espy was both the first black and first person from the Deep South to serve as the United States Secretary of Agriculture; 1993 to 1994.
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Betty Carter created the program, Jazz Ahead, which took 20 students who were given the opportunity to spend an entire week training and composing with Carter; 1993.
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Danny Glover, actor and film director, delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University; 2010.
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Dr. Elma Lumsden founded the Temple of Light Church of Religious Science in Kingston, Jamaica in 1981. She said: “Until you can walk on water, take a boat” and “life is a school and we are not on holiday”.
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