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- 3. She is the First African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and known for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation.
- 6. She was an African-American social psychologist who focused on the development of self-consciousness in black preschool children.
- 8. She was an African-American computer scientist who developed software for NASA that contributed to the 1997 flight to Saturn of the Cassini probe.
- 9. This world-famous author and Civil Rights activist is best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style.
- 10. She was an politician who in 1968 became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress.
- 11. She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
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- 1. She was a Civil Rights hero, a publisher, a journalist and a lecturer.
- 2. This "conductor" of the Underground Railroad was known as the “Moses of her people”.
- 4. She was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
- 5. She is an engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space.
- 7. She is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement.