ancestors home raison d'être webmaster ... Maya Angelou Brief Summary - A world famous poet, author, historian singer and civil rights activist. This Grammy and Horatio Alger award winner was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. The following web resources contain related information: Maya Angelou's Black Family Pledge Visions: Maya Angelou Official Website for Dr. Maya Angelou Marian Anderson Brief Summary - An African American operatic and concert singer that was renowned thoughtout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice. The first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. The following web resources have related information: Marian Anderson at the Penn. Library Marian Anderson - A Voice of Hope Josephine Baker Brief Summary - Entertainer, war heroine and civil rights activist. The following web resources have related information: Josephine Baker - Bio Benjamin Banneker Brief Summary - He worked with Pierre LEnfant, Andrew Ellicott, and others to plan Washington, D.C., the new capital of the United States. . Before being appointed by President George Washington to work on the capital, Mr. Banneker distinguished himself as a self-taught mathematician and astronomer. He predicted the solar eclipse that occurred on April 14, 1789, contradicting forecasts by more prominent astronomers. Guion S. Bluford, Jr. | |
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