| First black women elected to Congress |
| Mazie Hirono | Shirley Anita Chisholm |
| Tammy Duckworth | Carol Moseley Braun |
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| Set a World Record in Long Jump in 1936. |
| Mike Powell | Jesse Owens |
| Bob Beamon | Ralph Boston |
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| Led the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Martin Luther King | Roy Wilkins |
| Ralph Ellison | Rosa Parks |
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| First licensed Black Pilot in the World. |
| Bessie Coleman | Maya Angelou |
| Halle Berry | Micky Axton |
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| Led hundred of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. |
| Ruby Bridges | Frederick Douglass |
| Harriet Tubman | Tamika Mallory |
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| First Black author to win the Pulitzer in 1950 for the novel Annie Allen. |
| Toni Morrison | John Henry |
| Alice Walker | Gwendolyn Brooks |
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| A civil rights activist, poet who wrote 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'. |
| Maya Angelou | Sylvia Plath |
| Rudyard Kipling | Oscar Wilde |
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| First Black athlete to play Major League Baseball. |
| Ernie Banks | Willie Mays |
| Jackie Robinson | Monte Irvin |
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| A Black Educator and Inventor. |
| Denzel Washington | Morgan Freeman |
| Mohamed Salah | George Washington Carver |
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| An influential jazz singer. |
| Josh Gibson | Amy Winehouse |
| George Weah | Samuel L. Jackson |
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