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Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most iconic part of his "I Have A Dream" speech.

Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female author.

W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Thurgood Marshall played a pivotal role in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for her performance in Gone With The Wind.

Nat King Cole was the first African-American to reach #1 on the Billboard charts.

Claudette Calvin also refused to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks.

Angela Davis was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List for her political affiliations and social activism.

Josephine Baker is known for smuggling information to the French Resistance in her sheet music during World War II.

Lena Horne was an African-American actress who refused to take roles that belittled or negatively stereotyped her.

Arthur Ashe was the first, and is currently the only African-American to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.

Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American woman in space.