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Bessie Coleman, the Black Cherokee Female Pilot Who Made Aviation History
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Dorothy Thompson, the Journalist Who Warned the World About Adolf Hitler
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Ibn Battuta, One of the Greatest Travelers of All Time
Eliza Leslie: The Most Influential Cookbook Writer of the 19th Century
Lincoln Perry, the First African-American Movie Star
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Zora Neale Hurston, Genius of the Harlem Renaissance
Clarence Birdseye, the Father of the Frozen Foods Industry
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