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• CNN - Black History Month - CNN profiles men and women who have made people and society african-american lasting contributions, ranging from literature, music, and the people and society african-american arts to science and technology.
• Mary McLeod Bethune - Tells about the African-American educator who founded Bethune-Cookman african-american College.
• Famous African-Americans - Short biographies of inventors, musicians, educators, and others people and society who have made a difference.
• Encarta: African American Inventors - Highlights a few of the remarkable African American african-american men and biography women who changed the way people african-american live their lives.
• Voices from the Gaps: Angela Yvonne Davis - Tells about UCLA teacher and Black Panther Party sympathizer who people and society ended up on the FBI\\'s most wanted list after guns people and society registered to her were used in a courtroom shooting.
• Henry Louis Gates - Scholar and education who heads Harvard\\'s Afro-American Studies people and society program.
• Stamps on Black History - Tells the stories of dozens of black men and women african-american whose faces have appeared on U.S. postage stamps. Also includes african-american interactive quiz, word puzzles, writing activities, crafts, and coloring pages.
• Sambo Jackson - Tells how an accident resulted in ice cream.
• Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection - One of the many white Americans who expressed people and society biography interest in the achievements of black Americans during people and society biography the Harlem Renaissance was real estate developer William people and society biography E. Harmon. This collection of portraits and biographies people and society biography is based on the works he amassed in people and society biography the e
• Thurgood Marshall - Brief profile of the first African-American to hold the coveted people and society position of Supreme Court Justice.
• Tindley, Charles - Brief biography on the composer of the song "We Shall african-american Overcome" and generally considered the Father of American Gospel Music.
• Spike Lee - Introduces the filmmaker known for tackling the toughest issues that relate to the black community and basking in the controversy that surrounds his creations.
• Free To Dance: Debbie Allen - Features the multifaceted performer who is known as people and society biography an actress, dancer, singer, choreographer, director, and producer. people and society biography From PBS.
• Black History Heroes - Series of letters which contain biographical information written biography by the fourth and fifth grade students in biography Mrs. Sunda\'s Gifted Resource class at Brisas Elementary.
• Madame C, J. Walker - Chronological history includes the Harlem renaissance and her biography contribution to biography the cause of African American equality.
• Encarta: Black Military Heroes - Short profiles of blacks who have served their country with honor and bravery since the founding of the United States.
• Colin L. Powell - Distinguished Desert Storm hero and first African-American chairman of the people and society Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Booker Taliafero Washington - Born into slavery, Washington dedicated himself to education, people and society people and society became a teacher, then founded Tuskegee Normal and people and society people and society Industrial Institute in 1881.
• Marian Anderson - Potrays the life of the singer who, at the peak people and society of her career, was regarded as the world's greatest contralto.
• Alexander Crummell - Profile of the black nationalist and minister who was instrumental people and society in the 1897 founding of the American Negro Academy.
• Serena Williams - Photo and short biography of one of the top-ranked female african-american tennis professionals in the world.
• Wilma Rudolph - The only American woman runner ever to win biography three gold biography medals in the Olympic games.
• Oprah Winfrey - Award-winning daytime television host who overcame numerous obstacles african-american to achieve her current fame.
• African Americans in History - Learn about influential individuals who helped the political, biography social, and people and society technological development of the United States. biography Includes links to sound people and society files and original texts.
• African American Artists - Profiles and examples of work by Bearden, Clark, african-american Douglas, Hunter, people and society Johnson, Lawrence, and Tanner.
• Nat Love - Information on the life and adventures of the biography famous African-American biography cowboy.
• Muhammad Ali - Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who tossed an biography Olympic gold medal into a river because he biography was disgusted by racism in America.
• Nat King Cole - Black vocalist who left a permanent mark on the world of jazz.
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences - Biographies of African Americans working in the science people and society biography fields, ranging from geologists and astronomers to mathematicians people and society biography and inventors.

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