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English: Former WNBA star Lisa Leslie spoke at the Women’s Conference about how to build self-esteem and leadership in young women. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige in the uniform of the Kansas City Monarchs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Satchel Paige (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Margaret Walker (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Brandon Jacobs signing autographs at a New York Giants training camp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Publicity photo of Della Reese. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Della Reese at a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony for Mark Brunett. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
50 Cent at the 2009 American Music Awards Red Carpet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: President Reagan and Arthur Ashe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Interior Of Arthur Ashe Stadium During 2007 US Open (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Brandon Lloyd, a player on the Denver Broncos American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: “The Oaks”, former home of Booker T. Washington located on the Tuskegee University campus in Tuskegee, Alabama. The building is a contributing property to the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and National Landmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow staff members at the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University) located in the U.S. state of Alabama. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Faculty of Tuskegee institute (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
History class at Tuskegee, 1902 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tuskegee Institute usdaphoto (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Amantle Montsho at the 2011 Bislett Games (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cropped screenshot of Hazel Scott from the trailer for the film Rhapsody in Blue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
061205-N-8148A-074 – Montel Williams, a talk show host and former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, spends time aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG-83) while traveling through the 5th Fleet area of operations to collect footage for a holiday special dedicated to U.S. service members. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Montel Williams at the premiere of War, Inc. at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
kristin.eonline.com – L.A. Confidential/Belvedere/Water Club/Sapporo Emmy Party (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
DR. CHARLES RICHARD DREW, M.D., C.M., MED. D.Sc. – PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, HOWARD UNIVERSTITY, CHIEF SURGEON… – NARA – 535693 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. White House East Room. People watching include Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, Speaker of the House John McCormack. Television cameras are broadcasting the ceremony. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Medgar Evers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Patrice E. Lumumba; Congo prime minister, premier ministre congolais, kongolesischer Ministerpräsident (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Street in Kumasi, Ghana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Beach with palms in Ghana, Westafrica (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Map of Ghana Español: Mapa de Ghana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Carl Lewis at the “green carpet” for the Save the World Awards 2009 (Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, Lower Austria). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Carl Lewis – 1998 Houstonian (Photo credit: University of Houston Digital Library)
English: Carl Lewis in midair during a long jump for track and field as an athlete at the University of Houston (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Willie Dixon in 1979 in Cary, Illinois at Harry Hopes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
