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  1. 6. Obama, an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
  2. 7. Baker, an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France.
  3. 11. T. Washington, an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.
  4. 13. Parks, an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  5. 15. Hughes, an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
  6. 16. Neale Hurston, an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker.
  7. 17. Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
  8. 18. Wheatley, the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight.
  9. 19. B. Wells, an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
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  1. 1. Powell, an American politician, diplomat and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.
  2. 2. Garvey, a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator.
  3. 3. Scott, an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters
  4. 4. an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
  5. 5. Rice, an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
  6. 6. an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.
  7. 8. Washington Carver, an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
  8. 9. O. Davis, a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen. He was the first black Brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
  9. 10. Luther King Jr., an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
  10. 12. X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement.
  11. 14. Tubman, an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions.