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Mae Jemison received two undergraduate degrees and a medical degree, served two years as a Peace Corps medical officer in West Africa.Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest child of Charlie Jemison

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she was murdered. she didnt grow up speaking spanish. ("Selena." Contemporary Hispanic Biography, vol. 2, Gale, 2002. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K2429100125/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=092ef0e9. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.)

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Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American playwright, actor, composer, and performer.

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He was the first white man to cross the Missisippi River.

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The first black man to play baseball and open the door to integrated sports. Jackie was a star in the negro national league for baseball. He was so good that he was drafted to the dodgers in a white league.

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First black and first woman to seek a presidential nomination. Unsuccessful for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"Shirley Chisholm." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 50, Gale, 2005. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1606003074/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=962c0d84. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.
"Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm." Gale Biography in Context, Gale, 2010. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC4295803583/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=4ddaa95e. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.

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"Bella Abzug." Gale Biography in Context, Gale, 2011. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC4205139055/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=3ae29d49. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.

Longtime activist for equal rights for all workers. She became well known when she was elected to be apart of the US congress in 1970. Her popularity came from her flamboyant style and her wisecracking public statements. Also she voiced liberal issues.

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Leader of the Tibetan Buddhist community. Considered to be one of the most revered and influential spiritual leaders in the world.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during a reception in her honor in the East Room, August 12, 2009, at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Sonia Sotomayor at a reception in Washington, D.C.

First-generation American Sonia Sotomayor's parents, Juan and Celina, emigrated from Puerto Rico during the grusome World War II.  She also was only brought up by her mother after they imagrated.

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He was the first colored man to go to the North Pole, he accompanies his white partner Robert E. Peary on his journey to reach the North Pole.

Matthew Alexander Henson." Gale Biography in Context, Gale, 2011. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC4205136138/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=1a4e5fa2. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.

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wrote a children's novel wonder

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She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Alabama.

She sparked the civil rights movement by standing up to the discrimination

"Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama." Gale Biography in Context, Gale, 2015. Biography in Context, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/UROMIJ907462855/BIC1?u=mlin_c_leichs&xid=a8047e81. Accessed 24 Oct. 2017.