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born November 7, 1964) is the first African-American to win medals in Winter Paralympic competition as a ski racer. Her mother, Ruby Cremaschi-Schwimmer, was a principal at Lincoln High School (San Diego).[1][2] Her father, Lee St. John, left before she was born.[3] St. John was born in Detroit but raised in San Diego.[4] At the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria, St. John won a bronze medal in the slalom, a bronze medal in the giant slalom, and was awarded a silver medal for overall performance thereby earning her the distinction of being the second fastest woman in the world on one leg in that year.

At the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, St. John was asked to speak during the opening ceremonies.[5]

Due to a condition called pre-femoral focal disorder, St. John had her right leg amputated below the knee when she was 5 years old. Despite these challenges, she went on to excel as an athlete, a scholar, a mother and a businesswoman. After graduating magna 🤬 laude from Harvard University in 1986, St. John won a Rhodes Scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford,[6] where she earned her M.Litt. degree in economics in 1990. She worked in the White House during the Clinton administration as a Director for the National Economic Council, and is currently CEO of Courageous Spirit, Inc.

Bonnie St. John was formerly married to Dr. Grant Deane, an ocean acoustician and physicist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.[7][8]

St. John has written and published seven books: Succeeding Sane; Getting Ahead at Work Without Leaving Your Family Behind; Money: Fall Down? Get Up!; How Strong Women Pray;[9] Live Your Joy; and written with her teenage daughter, Darcy Deane, How Great Women Lead. Together, they traveled around the world on an extraordinary mother-daughter journey into the lives, and life lessons, of fascinating women leaders including Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, fashion designers, CEOs, women’s rights activists, and many more. Her latest book is Micro-Resilience [10], written by Bonnie & her husband Allen Haines where they explore how you can learn to bounce back from setbacks and create a life of power and meaning.

In February 2007, as part of the celebration of Black History Month, St. John was honored at the White House by President George W. Bush who said: "[Bonnie St. John] is the kind of person that you really want to be around, and the kind of person that shows that individual courage matters in life."[11]

St. John was featured on a nationwide Starbucks beverage cup with the quote "I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster."[12]

NBC Nightly News selected St. John as "One of the five most inspiring women in America". She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Montel and the Discovery Health Channel. Leading publications, such as The New York Times and People have profiled St. John and noted her extraordinary achievements.
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(May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. Mahoney was one of the first African Americans to graduate from a nursing school, and she prospered in a predominantly white society. She also challenged discrimination against African Americans in nursing.[1]
In 1908, Mahoney co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah B. Thoms. This organization attempted to uplift the standards and everyday lives of African-American registered nurses. The NACGN had a significant influence on eliminating racial discrimination in the registered nursing profession.[1] In 1951, the NACGN merged with the American Nurses Association.
Mahoney has received many honors and awards for her pioneering work. She was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 and to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
Smith was born in West Philadelphia, the son of Caroline (Bright), a Philadelphia school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., a refrigeration engineer. He grew up in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. He has three siblings, sister Pamela, who is four years older, and twins Harry and Ellen, who are three years younger. Smith attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. His parents separated when he was 13, but did not actually divorce until around 2000.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
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Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad was born in Houston Texas on June 19, 1948, she is the second-born child of her mother Vivian
Elizabeth who was a poet and art director and her father Andrew Arthur Allen who was an Orthodontist.
Her younger sister Debbie Allen takes her part in fame by being an actress, dancer, and a producer. Phylicia Rashad speaks fluent Spanish from living her early years in Mexico because her parents didn't want her to experience any racism in America. Phylicia rashad has been married and divorced three times.

Phylicia Radshad has two birth children: son William Lancelot "Billy" Bowles III (born: 1973, father: William Lancelot Bowles Jr.); and daughter Condola Rashad (born: December 11, 1986, father: Ahmad Rashad). Phylicia Rashad also shares a birthday with comic-strip "Garfield," which made its newspaper premiere on June 19, 1978, which makes Phylicia Rashad is exactly 30 years older than thew titular feline.

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Demetrius Caiphus Newton (March 15, 1928 – September 11, 2013) was an American civil rights attorney and politician. He filed lawsuits to end desegregation, and represented Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and others in cases related to civil rights. He then served in the Alabama House of Representatives, representing the 53rd district, from 1986 to his death in 2013. He became the first Black speaker pro tempore in the history of the Alabama House, serving in the role from 1998 through 2010.Newton was born in Fairfield, Alabama. He graduated from Fairfield Industrial High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilberforce University and his Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law in 1952. The state of Alabama paid Newton to attend a law school outside of the state, in order to prevent having to desegregate the University of Alabama School of Law or create a law school for Blacks. At Boston University, Newton met Martin Luther King, Jr., who was enrolled as a seminary student at the time.
After he graduated from law school, Newton served in the United States Army's 325th Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division during the Korean War.

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Demetrius Caiphus Newton was an American civil rights attorney and politician. He born on March 15, 1928 in Fairfield, Alabama. He graduated from his hometown high school, then attend to law school in Boston where he met Martin Luther King Jr. After graduating from law school, he served in United States Army's Airborne Division during the Korean War. After serving in the military, Newton pursued a career as civil rights attorney in Birmingham, Alabama. he filed many lawsuits against segregationist laws, and he also represented the King during the Selma to Montgomery marches. Later on, He became to be first black speaker pro tempore when being elected to Alabama House of Representatives.

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Born August 4, 1961 is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The first African American to assume the presidency, he was previously the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 .

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Althea Gibson became the first person of color to win a grand slam title in 1956. Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer,  She also was the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. She became the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon, and later in the day she also won the women's doubles championship on July 6,1957. She won 11 grand slam tournaments including six doubles titles. She was inducted into the international tennis hall of fame and the international women's sports hall of fame. Althea also was the first black player to compete on the women's professional golf tour.
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