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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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