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Persistence ensures realisation of nursing dream

Plagued by several set backs, coupled with the need to provide for her children, Natalie Cole, through sheer resilience and determination, has successfully completed and achieved her long-held dream of becoming a registered nurse. Cole, who hails...

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Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and minister. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 to a 16 year high school student named Helen Burns out of wedlock. Jesse’s biological father was their 33 year old neighbor named Noah Louis Robinson who was married to someone

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National

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Carter G Woodson and the Origins of Black History Month

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1875

Inspirational Jomo Kenyatta Quotes

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Bouchet, Edward Alexander (1852-1918)

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Freeman, Joseph (1953– )

In 1978 Joseph Freeman became the first man of African ancestry to be granted the priesthood after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that any male could be ordained, regardless of race or color. Freeman was born July 24, 1953, in Vanceboro, North Carolina, to Rose Lee Smith

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2017

Tuskegee University (1881-- )

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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007)

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Wilt Chamberlain

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1936

(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

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(1880) P.B.S. Pinchback, “Campaign Speech for GOP Presidential Candidate James G. Garfield."

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Zora Neale Hurston

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1891

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Bert Williams--a Leading Comedian

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Touissant L'Ouverture, born

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1743

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Hawkins, Augustus (1907–2007)

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Alabama A&M University [Normal] (1875-- )

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1982

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21

1974

King, Alveda (1951- )

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1951

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