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James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. he’s the oldest of 9 children. When he was 14, he started to work as a preacher. By delivering sermons, he gained his writer quality. After high school, he started writing novels. In 1948, Baldwin moved to Paris, France at age 25 to escape the racism and homophobia that was thrown at him in new york. In 1953, James Baldwin wrote his first novel “go tell it on the mountain” about how the church is a place with recession and hope. it was popular throughout black and white readers. James Baldwin was well known for his fiction, he often put in his views about race, culture, class, and religion and soon made an essay called “notes of a native son” speaking on those topics. Baldwin was deeply involved with the civil rights movement seeing as his friends and family were going into addiction, incarceration and suicide. In 1963, he published “the fire next time” an essay about racial struggles and holding “white America” accountable. He looked deeper into it and said that racism affects white people too. He was a big leader in the civil rights movement. James Baldwin changed history by breaking the literary stigma with the exploration racial issues and social issues. he was a great inspiration for civil rights and gay rights movements.

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August Wilson was born as Fredrick August Kittel on April 27, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, Fredrick went to st Richards Parochial school. His parents soon divorced afterwards and him, his siblings and his mother moved down to Oakland. His mother remarried and he moved once more to a suburb in Pittsburgh. While in high school Wilson and his family would get a lot of racial threats, he soon quit high school after being accused of plagiarizing a paper. He started self education, reading many books in a public library and learning things from his neighbors. In the late 60s he became the co founder and director of black horizons theatre in Pittsburgh and also change his last name to Wilson. For a few years after, Wilson published poetry books. In the 1980s, he moved to st Paul, Minnesota and started writing plays and he kept going from there. August Wilson was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright. he made a difference in the world by making plays about African american issues and struggles.

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Jesse Jackson was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. he was an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and politician.

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Ralph Bunche was born on August 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan. he was the first African american man to win a noble peace prize.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. he was a Neo Expressionist painter

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Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She is a billionaire philanthropist.

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Judy W Reed was the first African American women to receive a patent. There are not any records of her life so this is Judy W Reed's invention. Judy invented the dough kneader and roller, that smooths dough. When the dough is placed in between the two rollers and then the crank is turned, the dough flattens out. In early 1884, Reed applied for a patent to improve her "dough kneader and roller". On September 23, 1884 Reed received patent No. 305,474 for her invention. Judy W Reed changed history by proving that not only African Americans but African American women are able to achieve these claims and licenses from the government.

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Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 in Southampton county, Virginia. He was a leader of a slave rebellion.

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Benjamin Banneker was born to freed slaves in Maryland in 1731. he taught himself astronomy, engineering, mathematics and biology. He used his astronomy to accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses. He predicted the solar eclipse of 1799. He is known for making a striking  clock out of wood. Andrew ellicot worked with Banneker to plan out the layout of Washington dc. In 1792 Banneker started posting almanacs. Benjamin Banneker changed history by demonstrated that African American were capable of scientific and technological achievements.

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Jupiter hammon was born into slavery on Lloyd Neck, Long Island, New York in 1711. he was the first African american to be published in the united states with his poem "an evening thought"

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lets hop right in

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Because of these African Americans, WE CAN  

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Because of these African Americans, WE CAN  

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Live together and be Humanity

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Because of Martin Luther king Jr, WE CAN

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Because of Martin Luther king Jr, WE CAN

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go to school with all races

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vote

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sit anywhere on a bus

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have basic rights

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have our freedom

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go another day without being sold and bought

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Celebrating Black History Month: Because of Rosa Parks....We Can!

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The ABCs of Black History Month | African-American History

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Kobe Bean Bryant was born on August 23, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kobe Bryant spent his early years in Italy and joined the NBA straight out of high school. Kobe Bryant won five NBA championships and the MVP Award in 2008 with the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe Bryant scored 33,643 points throughout his whole life. Kobe Bryant was one of the greatest basket ball players of all time. He was an inspiration for everyone. He was a big leader and a representative in the NBA. Kobe was known every where. If you heard his name, you would know exactly who he was and what he did. Kobe was a great man. His daughter, Gianna Maria Onore Bryant or as her father would call her, Mambacita was up next. Following in her fathers footsteps she played basketball, planning on playing in the WNBA. Gigi was already a great basketball player and she was a special player. Neither of them are with us anymore but they will always be with us in our hearts. RIP Mamba and Mambacita.

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W. E. B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist, he started the NAACP.

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Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. she was a leading abolitionist and a leader in the underground railroad freeing over 300+ slaves.

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Madam CJ walker was born on born December 23, 1867 near Delta, Louisiana. she was the first African american millionaire selling hair care products for women of color.

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Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. he was a was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist who changed the world forever by leading the civil rights movement.

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since there are not any african americans that were born in the 1990s-2020 that changed the world, i put people that made a difference and are still alive for this one

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born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. he was an american songwriter and record producer.

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Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 44th president of the US, and the first African american president in the US.

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Harriet E Wilson was born as Harriet E Adams sometime in 1828 in Milford, New Hampshire.
she is the first African american women to publish a novel called "Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North. Showing that Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There"

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Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Arkansas. She was the first African american women to have a nonfiction bestseller.

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Absalom Jones was born into slavery in Delaware on November 7th, 1746. he was the first African american to be a priest