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March 12 is the Birthday of Andrew Young. Young graduated from Howard University in 1951 and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut in 1955.  A pastor at several black churches in the South, Young was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. 

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Young was the first African American to hold the position.  As mayor of Atlanta, elected in 1981, Young brought in $70 billion of new private investment.

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born into slavery at the Bolling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. She was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War and went on to become one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 

This American investigative journalist and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper became one of the most famous Black women in the United States.

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March 11 is the Birthday of Edward R. Dudley. 

In 1949, Edward R. Dudley was the first African American to hold the rank of ambassador. His legacy also includes a long history of civil rights activism and a distinguished career as an attorney.

Dudley was a civil rights lawyer in the 1940s, appointed to the New York Attorney General’s Office.  He was then recruited by Thurgood Marshall to become a Special Assistant at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 

In 1948, President Harry Truman sent Dudley to Liberia as a U.S. Envoy and Minister. Upon elevation of the Mission in Liberia to a full U.S. Embassy in 1949, Dudley was promoted to the rank of Ambassador. 

After departing Liberia in 1953 he continued to practice law and was later elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1965, serving on the high court until 1985.

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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. 

Morrison’s works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States.

On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

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On March 10, Timothy Zachary Mosley was born--aka Timbaland. The rapper-producer began to learn how to use studio equipment under the direction of producer and musician DeVante Swing at the age of 19.

Timbaland received three Grammy Awards for his work with Justin Timberlake. He also earned a Grammy for his contributions to Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.”

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. 

She was six weeks old when her family moved to Chicago, and from then on, it remained her home.

She published her first poem, "Eventide," in the magazine “American Childhood” when she was 13 years old. By the age of 16, she had already written and published approximately 75 poems.

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On March 9, Walter Francis White was named National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive secretary. He retained the role for almost a quarter of a century.

White waged a long and ultimately successful campaign against the lynching of blacks by white mobs in the United States.

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Born to parents who were sharecroppers, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. She’s the author of the multi-award winning book “The Color Purple.”  

She published “The Color Purple” in 1982 and received in 1983 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.

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On March 8, Marjorie Edwina Pitter King was born.

In 1944 she established a successful tax business called M and M Tax and Consultant Services. King was extremely active in politics, and was appointed to the State Legislature in 1965, becoming the first African American in the legislative body.

She operated her tax business for nearly 50 years.

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Alice Coachman Davis was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

She attended Tuskegee Preparatory and Albany State College, and went from cleaning sports facilities to becoming a teacher and track-and-field instructor, to dominating in the high jump to become an Olympic gold medalist.

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