HENRY “HANK” AARON
                                     (FEBRUARY 5, 1934-JANUARY 22, 2021)
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                                                      Hank Aaron was a major league baseball's leading home run hitter, with a career 
                                                      total of 755 home runs from 1954 to 1976. He also broke ground for the 
                                                      participation of African Americans in professional sports. He played for the 
                                                      Indianapolis Clowns of the professional Negro American League,  Milwaukee 
                                                      Braves , Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers 
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                                                      In 1956 he won the league batting championship with an average of .328, and in 
                                                      1957, having led his team to victory in the World Series, he was named the 
                                                      league’s Most Valuable Player.
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                                                      During his time with the Atlanta Braves, Hank Aaron broke a record that changed 
                                                      baseball forever. On the night of April 8, 1974, before a large crowd in Atlanta, 
                                                      Georgia, and with a national television audience looking on, Aaron hit his 715th 
                                                      homer off  the Dodgers pitcher Al Downing, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714 
                                                      homers since 1935. It was the highlight of Aaron's career, although it was 
                                                      tempered by a growing number of death threats and racist letters that made 
                                                      Aaron fear for his family's safety.
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                                                      Hank  Aaron retired following the 1976 season and rejoined the Braves as an 
                                                      executive. 
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                                                      Aaron's jersey number was 44. Both the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee 
                                                      Brewers have retired the number from use.
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                                                      He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on January 13, 1982 and in 2002 
                                                      awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom  in 2002.
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                                                      Aaron, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," is widely regarded as one of the greatest 
                                                      players in the history of the sport.
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          VIDEO OF HANK AARON’S BREAKING 
             BABE RUTH’S HOMERUN RECORD!
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqYThEVoSQ
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      SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
                 (NOVEMBER 30, 1924-JANUARY 1, 2005)
       • Shirley Chisholm was an American politician, the first African American  woman to be 
         elected to the U.S. Congress.
       • Shirley Chisholm was first  an education consultant for New York City’s day-care 
         division, she was also active with community  and political groups, including the National 
         Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and her district’s Unity 
         Democratic Club. 
       • In 1964–68 she represented her Brooklyn district in the New York state legislature.
       •  In 1968, Chisholm became the first African American to earn election to Congress, where 
         she worked on the Education and Labor Committee and helped form the Black Caucus
       • In 1972, she made history again by becoming the first Black woman of a major party to 
         run for a presidential nomination As a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. 
         president, she won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.
       • After serving seven terms in the House, Chisholm retired from office to become a teacher 
         and public speaker.
       • Shirley Chisholm paved a way for many African American women in politics especially 
         for Madam Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021. Madam Vice President was sorn in on 
         January 20, 2021 as the first woman and African American Vice President. 
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                W.E.B. DU BOIS
            (FEBRUARY 23, 1868-AUGUST 27, 1963)
         •  W.E.B. Du Bois, or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 
            was an African American writer, teacher, sociologist and 
            activist whose work transformed the way that the lives 
            of African American citizens were seen in American 
            society. 
         •  W.E.B. Du Bois became the first African American to 
            earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895.
         •   In 1903,  he published  his work, The Souls of Black 
            Folk, a collection of 14 essays. In the years following, he 
            adamantly opposed the idea of biological white 
            superiority and vocally supported women’s rights.  
         •  Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the 
            Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)  in 1909.
         •  Du Bois died on August 27, 1963 at the age of 95, in 
            Accra, Ghana, while working on an encyclopedia of the 
            African Diaspora. He died one day before  Dr. Martin 
            Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech 
            at the March on Washington
         Photo credit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/web-du-bois-racism-data-paris-
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