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Person · Dover, Delaware, United States
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 - 1941
She classified more stars than anyone who has ever lived, and the system she built is still the one astronomers use.
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Person · Niobrara, Nebraska, United States
Standing Bear
1829 - 1908
In 1879 a federal court in Omaha was asked to decide whether a Native American was a person.
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Person · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Homer Plessy
March 17, 1863 - March 1, 1925
His name is on one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever handed down, and no photograph of him is known to exist.
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Person · Cascade, Montana, United States
Mary Fields
1832 - December 5, 1914
She was about sixty years old when she took the job, and she never missed a day.
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Person · Columbus, Georgia, United States
Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
1849 - 1908
He was born blind and enslaved in Harris County, Georgia, and by the time he was eight years old other people were making money out of him.
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Person · Denver, Colorado, United States
Clara Brown
1800 - 1885
She was sold away from her husband and three of her children at auction, and she spent the next forty-seven years looking for one of them.
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Person · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 - 1919
She was born on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana on 23 December 1867, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who had both been enslaved on that ground.
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Person · Sallisaw, Oklahoma, United States
Sequoyah
1770 - 1843
He could not read.
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Person · Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Isaac Burns Murphy
1861 - 1896
Isaac Burns Murphy won forty-four percent of the races he rode.
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Person · Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Garrett Augustus Morgan
March 4, 1877 - July 27, 1963
He had six years of school.
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Person · Walthill, Nebraska, United States
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
June 17, 1865 - September 18, 1915
She came home from medical school to be the only doctor for more than twelve hundred people spread across hundreds of square miles, and she was twenty-four.
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Person · Atlanta, Texas, United States
Bessie Coleman
January 26, 1892 - April 30, 1926
No American flight school would take her, so she learned French.
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Person · Bridgewater, NY
May Flora Washburn
November 7, 1947 - January 31, 2025
Ahead of her time and the most unique in her way of thinking.
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