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Shirley Chisholm emerged as an important politician during the 1970s, serving as the nation's first African-American…
Oprah Winfrey is an important public figure in America, having overcome adversity to become a global icon.
African-Americans played a very important role the Civil War, as this article describes. Help your students better…
African-American filmmakers pushed the envelope by using their movies as a social and political commentary on American…
Jimi Hendrix was an astonishing musical innovator, whose style has yet to be defined.
Miles Davis was known as the Picasso of jazz.
A great American composer, Ellington's big band music became wildly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Louis Armstrong's talent as a trumpeter shaped the world of jazz.
Robert Johnson was a talented guitarist, whose music laid the groundwork for Delta blues.
Ralph Bunche served brilliantly as a professor and diplomat, and made many significant global contributions.
Malcolm X was a contrast to Dr. King, because he took a very different approach to the civil rights movement.
Dr. King's work inspired countless supporters to join him in his strategies of nonviolence and passive resistance as…
