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10.11.2010

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817, in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Because his slave mother, Harriet Bailey, used to call him her "little valentine," he adopted February 14th…
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10.11.2010

Jesse Owens

James Cleveland Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama to Henry and Emma Owens. When J.C. was eight, his parents decided to move the…
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10.11.2010

Malcolm X

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His…
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10.11.2010

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association from a critical link in black America’s centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest…
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10.11.2010

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Birth and Family Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Charles Johnson…
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