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Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Educator, Civil Rights Activist / 1856 - 1915
Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.
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Daniel Hale Williams
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Daniel Hale Williams
Surgeon / 1856 - 1931
Daniel Hale Williams was a physician who performed the first known open-heart surgery in the United States and who founded a hospital with an interracial staff.
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Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud
Scholar, Psychiatrist / 1856 - 1939
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.
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Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla
Engineer, Inventor / 1856 - 1943
Serbian-American inventor Nikola Telsa developed the alternating-current electrical system that's widely used today, and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery). -
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Educator, U.S. President / 1856 - 1924
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. resident, led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the last of which was creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace. Wilson also created the Federal Reserve and signed the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.
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Granville T. Woods
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Granville T. Woods
Inventor / 1856 - 1910
Known as "Black Edison," Granville Woods was an African-American inventor who made key contributions to the development of the telephone, street car and more.
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