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Whose actions triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in 1955?
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Who was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Congress?
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Who was the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States?
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Who served in the 1990's as a nonvoting member of the U.S. Senate from the District of Columbia?
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Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
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Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
