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We dont have BHM in Australia but the curriculum has changed significantly since I was a kid at school. They now learn about Aboriginal heroes and freedom fighters. My favourite historical figures would be a toss up between Pemulway, Truganini or Windarine

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Kevin Christoffel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And really, isn't EVERY month Aboriginal/African/marginalized people's month? They've been shaping our world the whole time, too!

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    Wilma Rudolph: Olympic medal winning track athlete who, as a childhood polio survivor, had been told she would never walk again.

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    Martin Luther King Jr

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    Bass reeves the original lone ranger

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    Martin Kaine
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my favorite "Wild West" figures! Former slave who became a US Marshal. Three thousand arrests, many in Oklahoma (where white men feared to tread). Absolute bad*ss.

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    Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

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    Ola Hudson. She was an American fashion designer and costumier. She designed costumes for several famous musicians, including the Pointer Sisters, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, David Bowie, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. She is the mother of Saul Hudson, known professionally as Slash, of Guns N' Roses

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    Angela Davis...

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    Alice Ball
    She was a chemist who very early in her career pioneered a treatment for Hansen's Disease, known also as leprosy, which became known as the 'Ball Method. ' She was an African-American and made a technique that used a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy.

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    Nobody. I already knew them. Chadwick Boseman. Obviously.

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    Robert Smalls. We need a movie about him. Stole a confederate ship took it north and became a senator

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    #11

    Bars Fight

    August, twas the twenty-fifth,
    Seventeen houndred forty-six,
    The Indians did in ambush lay,
    Some very valiant men to slay
    Twas nigh unto Sam Dickinson's mill,
    The Indians there five men did kill.
    The names of whom I'll not leave out,
    Samuel Allen like a hero foute,
    And though he was so brave and bold,
    His face no more shall we behold.
    Eleazer Hawks was killed outright,
    Before he had time to fight,
    Before he did the Indians see,
    Was shot and killed immediately.
    Oliver Amsden he was slain,
    Which caused his friends much grief pain.
    Simeon Amsden they found dead
    Not many rods from Oliver's head.
    Adonijah Gillett, we do hear,
    Did lose his life which was so dear.
    John Sadler fled across the water,
    And thus escaped the dreadful slaughter.
    Eunice Allen see the Indians comeing
    And hoped to save herself by running:
    And had not her petticoats stopt her,
    The awful creatures had not cotched her,
    Not tommyhawked her on the head,
    And left her on the ground for dead.
    Young Samuel Allen, Oh! lack-a-day!
    Was taken and carried to Canada.

    -Lucy Terry Prince

    First known poem written by a Black American!

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    Helen Lacks - without knowledge of what her doctor did back in the 1940s, her cancer cells were harvested and are still used today for any and almost all medical cellular and cancer experiments.

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    whalien
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HeLa cells (Henrietta?)! It's horrible what they did to her, but it is pretty cool how her cells are just immortal.

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    Rosa Parks

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    Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

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    Bass reeves the original lone ranger

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    Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

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