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Periodic Table of African Americans Part One
Created by Deirdre Smith of JDaniel4’s Mom Based on a Table Created by Lakeland Public Library
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Key to the Colors
= Athletes
= Activist
= Actors and Actress = Visual or Performing Artists
= Authors
= Politicians
= Entrepreneurs
= Famous Firsts
= Musicians
= Scientists
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Benjamin Banneker 11.9.1731 – 10.9.1806
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George Foreman 1.10.1949
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Fredrick Douglass 2.14.1818- 2.20.1895
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Marian Anderson 2.27.1897- 4.8.1993
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Blanche Bruce 3.1.1841
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David Blackwell 4.24.1919- 7.8.2010
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Edward Bouchet 9.15.1852- 1.28.1918
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Otis Boykin
8.29.1920- 3.13.1982
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Katherine Johnson
8.26.1918
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Samuel T. Wilcox 9.2.1776- 3.4.1842
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Medgar Evers 7.2.1925- 6.12.1963
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Matthew A. Henson 8.8.1866- 3.9.1955
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Ruby Dee 10.27.1942- 6.11.2014
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Shirley Chisholm 11.30.1924- 1.1.2005
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George Carruthers 10.1.1939
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Annie Easley
4.23.1933- 6.25.2011
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Marie Maynard Daly
4.16.1921- 10.28.2003
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Clara Brown 1.1.1800- 10.23.1885
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A. Philip Randolph 4.15.1889- 5.16.1979
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Mae Jamison 10.17.1956
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Maya Angelou 4.4.1928- 5.28.2014
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Alex Haley 8.11.1921- 2.10.1992
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Patricia McKissack 8.9.1944- 4.7.2017
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Walter Dean Myers 8.12.1937- 7.1.2014
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Octavia Butler 6.22.1947- 2.24.2006
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. 9.16.1950
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Phyllis Wheatley 5.8.1753- 12.5.1784
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Marian Hoffman 3.26.1944
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Virginia Hamilton 3.12.1934- 2.19.2002
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Halle Berry 8.18.66
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Pearl Bailey 3.29.1918- 8.17.1990
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Barbara Johnson 2.21.1936- 1.17.1996
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John Lewis 2.21.1940
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George Washington Carver
1.1.1864- 1.5.1943
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Bettye Washington Greene
3.20.1935- 6.16.1995
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Annie Turnbo Malone
8.9.1877- 5.10.1957
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Martin Luther King Jr. 1.15.1929- 4.4.1968
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L.Douglas Wilder 1.17.1931
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Langston Hughes 2.1.1902- 5.22.1967
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Jerry Pinkney 12.22.1939
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Carole Boston Weatherford
2.13.1956
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John Steptoe 8.12.1937- 7.1.2014
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Toni Morrison 2.18.1931
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Oprah Winfrey 1.29.1954
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Rita Williams Garcia 4.13.1957
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Ralph Ellison 3.1.1914-4.16.1984
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Booker T. Washington 4.5.1856- 11.14.1915
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Morgan Freeman 6.1.37
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Whoopi Goldberg
11.13.1955
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James Earle Jones
1.17.1931
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Barack Obama
8.4.1961
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Condoleezza Rice
11.14.1954
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Roger Arliner Young
1889- 11.9.1964
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Jay-Z 12.4.1969
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Sojourner Truth 1791- 11.26.1883
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Hiram Revels 11.27.1827- 1.16.1901
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Muhammad Ali 1.17.1942 – 6.3.2016
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Arthur Ashe 7.10.1943- 2.6.1993
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LeBron James 12.30.1984
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Michael Jordon 2.17.1963
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Jesse Owens 9.12.1913 – 3.31.1980
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Jackie Robinson 1.31.1919 – 10.24.1972
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Serena Williams 9.26.1981
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Jaqueline Woodson 2.12.1963
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Derrick Barnes 4.5.1856- 11.14.1915
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Nichelle Nichols 12.28.1932
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Sidney Poitier 2.20.1927
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Issa Rae 1.1.2.1985
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Will Smith 9.25.1968
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Jamie Fox
12.13.1967
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Carol Moseley Braun
8.16.1947
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Oprah Winfrey
1.29.1954
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Rosa Parks 2.4.1913- 10.24.2005
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Thurgood Marshall 7.2.1908- 1.24.1993
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Louis Armstrong 8.4.1901 – 7.6.1971
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Chuck Berry 10.18.1926- 3.18.2017
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Stevie Wonder 5.13.50
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Aretha Franklin 3.25.1942- 8.16.2018
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Diana Ross 3.26.1944
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Prince 6.7.1958- 4.21.2016
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Esperanza Spalding 1.18.1984
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Alvin Ailey 1.5.1931- 12.1.1989
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Edmonia Lewis
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Jacob Lawrence 9.7.1917
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Arthur Mitchell 3.27.1934- 9.19.218
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Amy Sherald 8.30.1973
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Alma Thomas 9.22.1891- 2.24.1978
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Misty Copeland
9.10.1992
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Debbie Allen
1.16.1950
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Beauford Delaney
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12.30.1901- 3.26.1979