Get a fawkin grip

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Billie Holiday. Tanked her career for singing “Strange Fruit” but continued to sing it anyway

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Venus and Serena Williams shook the WORLD being amazing at tennis.

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During World War II, Baker became a spy for the French resistance, passing on critical Nazi information to aid the war effort.

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Shirley Chisholm became a household name after becoming the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968

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Maya Angelou has a distinct voice as a Black writer and activist.

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Nina Simone possessed a unique raspy voice and had a massive impact on the jazz community, as well as the civil rights movement

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Wangari Maathai was the first Black African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in environmental conservation.

Ruby Bridges was on the front lines of public school desegregation

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Ida B. Wells was a prominent Black investigative journalist, educator and activist in the early civil rights movement.

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American abolitionist Harriet Tubman is best known for her efforts to move slaves to liberation in the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists.

Surya Bonaly is a Black figure skater who is famous for landing a backflip on one blade at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano

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Marsha P Johnson. Black trans activist who threw the first brick at Stonewall

Madame C.J Walker. First Black woman self made millionaire

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Ain’t no body drew a crowd quite like MLK jr

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Regardless of how you feel on his politics, Obama was STILL the first Black president

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These amazing Black women 🖤

Freedom Riders took on the task of facing down segregation

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Let’s be honest, Barack would be no where without Michelle

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I would love to if I wasn’t so busy 🥲

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