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Protestant clergyman and educator, born near Lexington, Virginia, USA. The son of a merchant farmer, he underwent a religious conversion in 1789, began to evangelize, and proved to be a fluent and persuasive preacher.
Astronomer and mathematician. Born Benjamin Bannakay on November 9, 1731 near Baltimore, Maryland.
Educator and civil and women's rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina.
Educator. Born Lottie Hawkins in 1883, in Henderson, North Carolina.
Philanthropist, pioneer. Born a slave in 1800 in Virginia. Brown and her mother were bought by tobacco farmer Ambrose Smith.
American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South.
Engineer, inventor, writer. Born on May 27, 1898, in Nashville, Tennessee.
American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion.
Pediatric endocrinologist, U.S. surgeon general. Born Minnie Lee Jones on August 13, 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas.
Educator, author, editor. Born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia.
Catholic priest and educator. Born on February 27, 1834, in Jones County, Georgia.
American black explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on most of his expeditions, including that to the North Pole in 1909.
Astronaut, physician. Born October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a roofer and carpenter, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher.
Chemist, inventor. Born Percy Lavon Julian on April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Cell biologist, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Educator. Born on April 13, 1854, in Macon, Georgia.
Black leader, educator, and diplomat, who is believed to have been the first black ever elected to public office in the United States.
Entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, in Delta, Louisiana.
Writer, black leader, educator. Born Booker Taliaferro Washington on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia.
American physician and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, credited with the first successful heart surgery.
Inventor, born in Ohio, USA. Born to free African-Americans, he received little schooling and in his early teens took up a variety of jobs, including in a railroad machine shop, as a railroad engineer, in a steel mill, as an engineer on a British ship, and then back on the railroad.
Historian, educator, author, and publisher. Born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia.
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