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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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Sojourner Truth
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Crispus Attucks
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Hattie McDaniel: First Black Actress To Win An Oscar
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Fanny Jackson Coppin: Educator and Missionary
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Cathay Williams: First Black Woman To Enlist In U.S. Army By Posing As A Man
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Madam C. J. Walker
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