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Who was an American track-and-field star whose performances during the mid-1930's in college and in the Olympic Games made him one of the most famous athletes in sports history?
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Who was an American journalist who campaigned against the lynching of blacks during the late 1800's and early 1900's, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
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Who, in 1955, became the first black soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera of New York City?
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Who was the leading black opponent of racial discrimination in the early 1900's, and won fame as a historian and sociologist?
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Who was the founder and head of Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school for blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama, and served as adviser to two Presidents--Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--on racial problems and policies?
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Who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States because he believed that blacks would never receive justice in countries where most of the people were white?
