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A minister, educator, and writer, founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States. He was the first to opened a AME church in Philly in 1794. He was born into slavery, he bought his freedom in the 1780s and joined St. George's Church. He lef to create his own church due to seating restrcitions that Blacks had, he turned an old blacksmith shop into a church in 1787. The first church for blacks in the United States.

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989)

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989)

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Alexander was the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, as well as the first black woman student to graduate with a law degree from Penn Law School, AND the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania. All of her work veiws have been recorded and are saved in Penn's archieved.

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Simone was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music was every genre, she learned how to play the piano as a young child. She would go to the white part of town to study with a piano teacher and was later accepted into The Juilliard School. She went on to record more than 40 albums and in 2003. A few days before her death, the Curtis Institute awarded her an honorary degree.

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Nipsey Hussle may be mostly known for his music, but as well as that he was an American activist, entrepreneur, and Grammy Award winning rapper. Nipsey would join gangs to survie, and shortly after became a sucsessful artist, in hismusic he would rap/sing about things to inspire young boys like him, mostly about gun violence.  while speaking openly about his experiences with gang culture. Nipsey was shot and killed a day before he was to meet with LAPD officials to address gang violence in South Los Angeles.

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Even though Kobe Bryant is known for his incredible basketball skills, he ade a mark on history with how he got there. He  was drafted  out of Lower Merion High School at the age of 17. He won five titles as one of the marquee players in the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. He was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. men's basketball teams at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games. In 2015 he wrote the poem "Dear Basketball," a short film of the same name he narrated. The work won an Academy Award for best animated short film. But as well as his athletic capabilities, Kobe and his wife vanesa were vocal advocates for the homeless. Vanessa started the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation aimed to reduce the number of homeless in Los Angeles.

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When Ruby was 6, Bridges left and iconoic and historical walk to school as the first African American student to go to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. Although she ate lunch alone and sometimes played with her teacher at recess, but she never missed a day of school that year. In 1999, she established The Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2000, she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in Washington, DC. And until this day she is still an activist.