LEADERS & LEGENDS

  • As a child performing her first classical recital, Simone refused to perform until both her parents, who were moved to the back of the recital hall...
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  • Marvin Gaye's first role at Motown was as a session drummer, he played for the likes of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
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  • Muhammad Ali defeated every top heavyweight boxer in his era, and was named "Fighter of the Year" by 'Ring' magazine.
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  • At age 14 she became San Francisco's first African-American cable car conductor.
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  • Washington D.C's famed Busboys and Poets in the historic U Street district celebrates Langston Hughes's brief tenure as a busboy in the city.
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  • Hurston graduated Barnard College at the age of 37, showing it's never too late to learn.
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  • In 1954, Belafonte was the leading man opposite of Dorothy Dandridge in the film 'Carmen Jones'(based on the opera Carmen).
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  • In 1998, 'Time' named 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X 'one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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  • Davis ran as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party in the United States in 1980
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