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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator, Civil Rights Activist / 1875 - 1955
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.
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Carl Jung
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Carl Jung
Inventor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Journalist / 1875 - 1961
Carl Jung established the idea of analytic psychology. He advanced the idea of introvert and extrovert personalities and the power of the unconscious.
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Carter G. Woodson
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Carter G. Woodson
Historian / 1875 - 1950
Carter G. Woodson was an African-American writer and historian known as the "Father of Black History Month." He penned the influential book The Mis-Education of the Negro.
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J.C. Penney
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J.C. Penney
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist / 1875 - 1971
J.C. Penney was best known as an American businessman who founded a retail chain under the same name. His stores today sell general merchandise for the home.
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Ferdinand Porsche
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- Famous Inventors
- Famous Engineers
Ferdinand Porsche
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor / 1875 - 1951
Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche car company in 1931. In the early 1920s, he oversaw the development of the Mercedes compressor car, and later developed the first designs of the Volkswagen car with his son, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche.
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Maurice Ravel
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- Famous Songwriters and Composers
- Famous People Named Maurice
Maurice Ravel
Songwriter / 1875 - 1937
Maurice Ravel was a 19th and early 20th century French composer of classical music. His best known works are Bolero and Daphnis et Chloé.
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