what is the names of the African Americans who contributed to our society globally?
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There are so many..do a google on these few to start you off.\n\nMaya Angelou \nJosephine Baker \nBessie Blount\nMarita Bonner\nDorothy Dandridge\nJessie Redmon Fauset\nAlthea Gibson\nBillie Holiday\nLena Horne\nZora Neale Hurston\nHarriet Jacobs\nMae Jemison\nMarjorie Stewart Joyner\nCoretta Scott King\nNella Larsen\nToni Morrison\nRosa Parks\nLeontyne Price\nCondoleezza Rice\nBessie Smith\nMaria Stewart\nDebi Thomas\nHarriet Tubman\nSojourner Truth\nEthel Waters\nIda Wells-Barnett\nPhillis Wheatley\nCathay Williams
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There are too many to name. For the person who said black people are disgusting, sweetie you don't know what you are missing. To name a few, Allen Iverson, Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Marques Huston. Good question!!
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There's plenty...Alice Paul, Pocahontas, Amelia Earhart, Carrie Chapman Catt, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Elanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Madame C.J. Walker, Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller, Lucille Ball, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Emily Dickinson, Marilyn Monroe...just to name a few. I suppose some people would consider Oprah Winfrey a hero too...I guess it depends on what you're looking for.\nThere's countless others. I hope this helps you.
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Fathers, Mothers, uncles, aunts, ministers, teachers, scientists, the old neighbor lady next door who teaches piano, the guy who owns the corner store...there are many great people in the African American community who are nameless, but do the work anyway.
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Yes, if you're born in Africa you're African American. That's why some people prefer to be called black because African American classifies anyone born in Africa.
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why are sctions like these so neglected...\nDID YOU KNOW... that an African American man named Lewis Latimer who worked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell drew up the plans for Bell's first telephone?\nIf you did, you are probably among the fortunate few who possess such knowledge. It is a fact that has not been well publicized. There are countless inventions by African Americans and they cover everything from food processing to electrical technology. The inventions by African Americans point out the contributions that African Americans have made to the comfort and advancement of mankind. The following are some inventions by African Americans.\nAmerica's Hi-Tech "Invisible Man"\n\nPatricia E. Bath was the inventor of the laser eye surgery technique now widely used. In fact, she is the only African American woman doctor to ever receive a medical patent.\n\nFrederick Jones invented the air conditioner unit and the automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.\n\nJ.W. Smith invented the lawn sprinkler.\n\nSarah Boone invented the ironing board.\n\nJan Matzeliger invented the shoe-lasting machine (for attaching \nsoles on shoes in Lynn, Mass. His invention revolutionized the shoe industry.\n\nLydia Newman invented the hair brush.\n\nL.P. Ray invented the dust mop.\n\nThomas W. Stewart invented the mop.\n\nJohn Love invented the pencil sharpener.\n\nLee Burridge invented the typewriter.\n\nJohn Burr invented the lawnmower.\n\nGarrett Morgan invented the traffic light.\n\nJohn Standard took out a patent on an improved refrigerating device... the refrigerator.\n\nAlice Parker invented the heating furnace.\n\nAlexander Miles invented major improvements to the elevator.\n\nDr. Charles Drew invented a way to store blood and then created the first blood bank.\n\nM.A. Cherry invented the tricycle.\n\nMajor Robert H. Lawrence was the first African American astronaut chosen \nto make a journey to the moon. He had a doctoral degree in Chemistry \nand would have made one of the first lunar trips, but he died in the crash \nof an Air Force F-104 jet at Edwards Air Force Base, CA in 1968.\nErnest E. Just was the first biologist to receive the Springarn Medal. He received distinction in his field through his research on egg fertilization and the functioning of cells.\n\nHarold D. West was the first person to synthesize the amino acid threonine in the laboratory.\n\nDr. William Hinton devised a test to determine syphilis.\n\nAndrew Bryan was the first African American pastor, ordained in 1788.\n\nConstance B. Motley was the first African American female appointed as a Federal Judge in 1966.\n\nBarbara Watson Federal was the first African American and first female to serve as Asst. Secretary of State.\nShe held her post in 1974.\n\nBernice Gaines Hughes was the first African American female to obtain the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Armed Forces.\n\nAlonzo Pietro (known as "il Negro") was one of Columbus' navigators on his first voyage to America in 1492.\n\nalso look into:\n\nMore Inventors\n\n1st Lt Stephen Swails \nA. Philip Randolph\nAdam Clayton  Powell Jr.\nAhmed Baba\nAhmos\nAlaine Locke\nAlexander Dumas\nAlexander Pushkin\nArthur A. Schomburg\nBenjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.\nBishop Richard Allen\nBlack Reconstruction Congress\nCapt. Erwin B. Lawrence\nCarol Mosley\nCharles Clinton Spaulding\nClarence Harris\nCleopatra\nColin L. Powell\nColonel Charles A. Young\nColonel Guion Bluford\nDaniel Hale Williams\nDr. Benjamin S. Carson\nDr. Carter G. Woodson\nDr. George R. Carruthers\nDr. Katherine G. Johnson\nDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\nDr. W. E. B. Dubois\nDuke Ellington\nElijah McCoy\nEthel Waters\nFanny M. Coppin\nFrancois Louveture\nFredrick Douglas\nGranville T. Woods\nGwendolyn Brooks\nHarriet R. Tubman\nIda B. Wells\nIMHOTEP\nJackie Robinson\nJames Baldwin\nJames Forten\nJames Weldon Johnson\nJesse Owens\nJohn B. Russwurm\nJohn H. Johnson\nJohn Henry Lawson\nJoseph Barrow Louis\nJosep
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Is the African American Black or White?
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights leader\nMaya Angelou - Author\nBooker T. Washington - Politician\nGeorge Washington Carver - Botanist\nBarak Obama - Senator\nClarence Thomas - Supreme Court Justice\nCondoleeza Rice - Secretary of State\nTom Bradley - Mayor of Los Angeles\nBill Cosby - Actor, comedian\nW.E.B. DuBois - Historian, poet, activist, first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard.
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none, we are all americans and should not be listed as a group of this or that.
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Because they're Egyptians (or Egyptian-American if they become naturalized).  Blacks are called African-Americans because they don't know from which african culture their ancestors were forcibly removed, so froma social standpoint, they're basically orphans.  Du Bois said the same thing (sort of).
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Elbert Frank Cox (December 5, 1895–November 28, 1969) was an American mathematician who became the first black person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He spent most of his life as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was known as an excellent teacher. During his life, he overcame various difficulties which arose because of his race. In his honor, the National Association of Mathematicians established the Cox-Talbert-Address, which is annually handed out at the NAM's national meetings. The Elbert F. Cox Scholarship Fund, which is used to help black students pursue studies, is named in his honor as wel
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http://www.african-americanshakes.org/index.html
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i know that he was a black man that did alot of good for his black people and gave all the rest of us a holiday!!!
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I think African Americans Have Made Themselves Known as Intelligent People Not just Gangsters and Thugs And Hispanics Love Faamily Family is Everything That is a Wonderful Thing, I am 14, Polish, Puerto Rican , Spanish, Canadian and a tad Irish
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We owe our country's success as a producing nation to the sweat of our early laborers.  Today, we still out-produce every country on most every good and service.  And blacks are still broke, sick, and under-represented.  We still haven't made reparations for what we owe.  They aren't blaming whites, they just want (and deserve) their money.
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My church did the play "A Lesson Before Dying".This was also televised on tv.You could also pick black historians who made a difference in society.eg;Madame C.J. Walker,George Washington Caver,Eli Whitney,and Garrette A. Morgan.Read up on the accomplishments that they succeeded in life.Go to a school teacher supply store and you'll find alot of informations to help you.The public library is another source of information.
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Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, Marcus Garvey, Elridge Cleaver\n\nSNCC - Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_African-American_legislation