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Many African American operatic and concert singers, including Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman, Shirley Verrett, and Kathleen Battle, have credited Marian Anderson as their inspiration to seek professional vocal careers. Norman recalled the first record ...
http://www.afrovoices.com/anderson.html
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- The African American
Created in 1995 by USC librarian Dennis Thomison, the Ethnic Studies web site was designed to provide access to research resources available through the Internet based on a global perspective of ethnicity and migration issues.After Dennis Thomisons d ...
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/ethnicstudies/africanamerican/black_a...
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- A Tindley Charles
Lowershores staff includes a cluster of contract professionals including attorneys, writers, web developers, graphic artists, and marketing specialists that assist in all areas of service. Currently, lowershore retains the outside services of over t ...
http://www.lowershore.net/famousnatives/tindley.htm
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- A Faces of Science
Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The accomplishments of the past and present can serve as pathfinders to present and future engineers and scientists. African American ...
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
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- A Black Military
The United States military is today viewed by many as a great bastion of upward mobility for blacks and other minorities, but it has not always been receptive to black soldiers. Despite a sometimes hostile reception in official quarters, blacks have ...
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/lists/?article=BlackMilitaryHeroes
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Gale®, part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in eresearch and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of fulltext maga ...
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/gates_h.htm
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- The Mary McLeod
Mary McLeod Bethune, born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom from discrimination for black Americans. Bethune believed that through education, blacks could begin t ...
http://www.nahc.org/NAHC/Val/Columns/SC10-6.html
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Debbie Allen was born in Houston, Texas, where her father, Andrew Allen, was a dentist and her mother, Vivian Ayers Allen, was a Pulitzer Prizenominated writer. Her sister, Phylicia Rashad, became well known for her role as Claire Huxtable on the tel ...
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/biographies/allen.html
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- A Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show market with her unique and natural style and rose to become the host of the most watched daytime show on television, which boasts 22 million viewers daily threefourths of whom are women. She is the first Afr ...
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/winfrey_o.htm
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Abolitionists Biography
