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| Ranked 43rd in Comdey Central's list of 100 greatest comedians ? | |
| Studied at the Juilliard School of Music? | |
| Sang backing vocals for Diana Ross, Roberta Flack, Gary Glitter, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Donna Summer, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, and David Bowie. ? | |
| After visiting Africa, he swore to never use the N-word in his stand-up comedy routine again.? | |
| In January 1972, Time magazine named him 'TV's first black superstar'.? | |
| Joined the inaugural Lollopalooza tour in 1991.? | |
| In 2000, they were given the chance to record a new album with several special guests, including Gwen Stefani, George Clinton, Rick James, H.R. of Bad Brains, Donny Osmond.? | |
| Led the Capitol Hill drive to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.? | |
| First African-American elected to the Texas Senate after reconstruction and the first Southern black woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives? | |
| The first major-party black candidate for President of the United States? | |
| His work would lay the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills. ? | |
| Archbishop of Atlanta? | |
| Served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer from 1983 to 1985, before becoming the first African-American to travel to space.? | |
| Second African-American woman to travel into space.? | |
| Born in Chicago, graduate of Whitney Young HS, she became the third African-American woman to travel into space.? | |
| Despite his youth and lack of experience he began choreographing, directing scene and costume designs, and running rehearsals at the age of 22. ? | |
| Co-creator, director and choreographer of the musical Fela!, receiving a Tony award for best choreography. ? | |
| Her granddaughter, Naima Mora, was the Cycle 4 winner of the America's Next Top Model television show.? | |
| During his career as a writer, he worked to a strict timetable, writing in the morning, devoting the rest of the day to heroin. ? | |
| Protested and refused to give up her seat, 71 years before Rosa Parks. ? | |
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| Author, Uncle Tom's Cabin? | |
| Graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1792.? | |
| First African American woman in the world to earn an aviation pilot's license, she was thrown from a plane at 500 feet and died instantly when she hit the ground.? | |
| Inventor orginated a respiratory protective hood; holds a patent for a type of traffic signal; invented a hair straigtening preparation.? | |
| Born Sarah Breedlove, she was an African-American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur and philanthropist.? | |
| Became the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.? | |
| Prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.? | |
| On May 8, 2009, ___________ and 21 others were arrested while protesting President Barack Obama's commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame. ? | |
| Allegations of conflict of interest and voter disenfranchisement led to the filing of at least sixteen related lawsuits naming ____________ .? | |
| Civil rights activist and lawyer.? | |
| Former US Secretary of State? | |
| Died after two strokes, putatively after reading a mistaken, and negative, obituary of himself in the Chicago Defender which stated he died 'broke, alone and unpopular'. ? | |
| 1998, Time named his autobiography as one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.? | |
| US Ambassador to the United Nations? | |
| He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization | |
| On tap to plan Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's inauguration.? | |
| Her father is professor emeritus in Pathology and Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical School.? | |
| In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University's Community Service Center? | |
| After graduating college, he was director of the Developing Communities Project, in the greater Roseland area on Chicago's South Side. ? | |
| What did the five fingers say to the face?? | |
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