AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS!
February is Black History Month!
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Hank AARON beat Babe Ruth's record of 713 careers homeruns in 1974
Comedian, actor, and famous father Bill COSBY
Author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots: Alex HALEY
Talk show host, actress and producer OPRAH Winfrey
Abolitionist, women's suffragist, and former slave Sojourner TRUTH
Famous educator BOOKER T. Washington ran the Tuskegee Institute 1881 - 1915
Academy Award winning actor DENZEL Washington
One of the founders of the NAACP in 1909: W.E.B. DUBOIS
First African American to play Major League Baseball: JACKIE Robinson
Sports and business leader, and one of basketball's greatest: Michael JORDAN
NAACP activist whose murder fueled the Civil Rights Act of 1964: MEDGAR Evers
Appointed to the Supreme Court replacing Thurgood Marshall, Clarence THOMAS
Abolitionist and "conductor" on the Underground Railroad: Harriet TUBMAN
Actress and comedienne born Caryn Elaine Johnson: WHOOPI Goldberg
Famous poet, author, performer and speaker: Maya ANGELOU
Three time heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali, Born CASSIUS Clay
Civil rights activist and former presidential candidate Jesse JACKSON
Nation of Islam leader with sometimes militant views: MALCOLM X
Leading antebellum abolitionist, Frederick DOUGLASS
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood MARSHALL was appointed in 1967
Controversial filmmaker of Do The Right Thing and School Daze SPIKE LEE
Controversial leader of Nation of Islam: Louis FARRAKHAN
Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus ROSA PARKS
He won four Olympic gold medals in track and field in 1936 JESSE OWENS
Youngest player ever to hold the number one ranking in professional golf TIGER WOODS
The first African-American to be appointed U.S. Secretary of State COLIN POWELL
The first African-American woman to be U.S. Secretary of State: CONDOLEEZZA Rice
Baptist minister and influential civil rights leader: MARTIN LUTHER King Jr.
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