ASTRONAUTS /EXPLORERS: Ronald McNair Guion Bluford Mae Carol Jemison Frederick Drew Gregory Matthew Henson James Pierson Beckwourth	GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: Shirley Chisholm Ralph Bunche Barbara C. Jordan Thurgood Marshall Thomas Bradley Andrew Jackson Young Jr. Colin Powell	POETS /PLAYWRIGHTS: Phillis Wheatley Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Paul Laurence Dunbar Lorraine Hansberry	SCIENTISTS /INVENTORS: Ernest Everett Just Benjamin Banneker George W. Carver Garrett Morgan Jan Ernst Matzeliger Lewis Howard Latimer
ATHLETES: Jesse Owens Jackie Robinson Arthur Ahse Wilma Rudolph Althea Gibson Jackie Joyner-Kersee	FILM/ T.V. PERSONALITIES: Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Oprah Winfrey Lou Gossett JR. Spike Lee James Earl Jones	MUSICIANS: Louis Armstrong Count Basie Dean Dixon Duke Ellington Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker	SINGERS: Marian Anderson Leontyne Price Ella Fitzgerals Lena Horne Sarah Vaughan Nat “King” Cole
CIVIL RIGHTS: Rosa Lee Parks Fannie Lou Hamer Coretta Scott King Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jesse Jackson W.E.B. DuBois Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman	DOCTORS /NURSES: Charles Richard Drew Daniel Hale Williams Susie King Taylor Mary Elizabeth Mahoney	EDUCATORS: Mary McLeod Bethune Booker T. Washington Benjamin E. Mays E. Franklin Frazier	WRITERS: Virginia Hamilton Alice Walker Toni Morrison Alex Haley Langston Hughes

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