Astronaut Mae Jemison is acrophobic.
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Maya Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday after MLK was assassinated.
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Valerie Thomas developed the first 3D optical illusion device.
Marjorie Joyner invented the Permanent Waving Machine.
Ella Baker is considered the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Ida B. Wells, who led the campaign against lynching, was born enslaved in 1862.
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Henrietta Lacks unknowingly led a medical revolution.
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