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Martin Luther King Jr.
male, deceased - Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is...
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Norman Borlaug
male - Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...
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Mother Teresa
female, deceased - Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979...
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Jackie Robinson
male, deceased - Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson became the first African-America
n professional baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first...
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Coretta Scott King
female, deceased - Coretta Scott King was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader. Coretta King is a...
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Lady Bird Johnson
female, deceased - Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson was the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for...
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Byron Nelson
male, deceased - John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. He and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam...
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Dorothy Height
female - Dorothy Irene Height (born March 24, 1912) is an African American administrator, educator, and social activist. Irene Height is a recipient of the...
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Betty Ford
female - Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren Ford, known as Betty (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and was the...
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Roscoe Brown
male - Dr. Roscoe Brown (b. 1922) is one of the Tuskegee Airmen, and former commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. He...
