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African American/Black Heritage: Activists and Leaders

Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

Angela Davis

Medgar Evers

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Claudette Colvin

Ruby Bridges

Librarian of Congress: Dr. Carla Hayden

Congresswoman Cori Bush

Barack Obama

John Lewis

Ayọ Tometi

Ieshia Evans

Ericka Hart

Martin Luther King Jr.

Harriet Tubman

Fannie Lou Hamer

Kamala Harris

Laverne Cox

Lee Merritt

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