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Before There Was
Supermodels Actresses Actors Judges Female
Millionaires Authors Female Musical
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African American Supermodels

• ByCatherine Reed

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Before There was Tyra Banks

• She has the 1 show America (Americas Next Top
  Model)
• Tyra Banks is a successful supermodel .
• Tyra Banks was born on December 4,1973.

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And Naomi Campbell

• Naomi Campbell was born on May 22,1970 in
  Westminster , London.
• She became a World wide model at the age of 27.
• Naomi Campbell did drugs, but luckily she fought
  the impact of different drugs.

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Iman

• Iman was born on September 21, 1921 in fountain,
  Monroe County, Illinois
• Her parents were Seth W. and Bertha
• Iman was one of the African American Model!

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Beverly Johnson

• Beverly Johnson was born in 1951
• Beverly Johnson became in August 1974 the first
  African American to appear on the cover of Vogue
  fashion magazine .

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BEFORE AND AFTER

• Created by Alexis Caldwell

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Before There Was
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HALLE BERRY

• She was born August14, 1966 in Cleveland Ohio.
• Her birth name is Halle Maria Berry.
• She attended Cuyahoga Community College in
  Cleveland Ohio.

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RUBY DEE

• She has 3 children.
• Her birth name is Ruby Ann Wallace.
• Her spouses name was Ossie Davis.

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Before There Was.

• By Marquita Rooks

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Before there was Denzel Washington
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there was Sidney Poitier
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Denzel Washington

• Denzel Washington a African American actor.
• Denzel star in over 50 movies.
• He even stared in Man on Fire.
• Denzel was born December 28, 1954.

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Sidney Poitier

• Sidney was a African American actor.
• Sidney stared in 8 movies.
• He even star in Lets Do it Again.
• Sidney was born February 20 1927.

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Before And After

• By Markita Mitchell

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BEFORE THERE WAS
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Clarence Thomas

• Clarence Thomas was born on June23, 1948.
  Clarence Thomas served for 13 years as Associate
  Justice. Bush appointed Clarence Thomas. He was
  commissioned on October16, 1991 and sworn in on
  October23, 1991

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Thurgood Marshall

• Thurgood Marshall was born on July2, 1908.
  Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the U.S Court
  of Appeals for the Second Circuit. President
  Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall.
  Thurgood Marshall won 14 out of 19 cases by the
  Supreme Court.

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Before there was..

• By Alexandria Richardson

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Before there was Oprah Winfrey

• . She was the first black billionaire .
• At 17 she was hired by WVOL radio in Nashville .
• Two years latter she sighed in with WTVF- TV in
  Nashville

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There was Madam C.J. Walker

• Her birth name is Sarah Breedlove .
• She built hair products for black women .
• She was born December23,1864 .
• She died May25,1919 .

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Before and After

• By Bianca Winters

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Before there was
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Alex Haley

• He wrote books with adventures.
• One of the books he wrote was, A Different Kind
  of Christmas.
• Alex Haley wrote Roots and the biography of
  Malcom X.

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Langston Hughes

• He wrote poems in the Harlem Recissance.
• Some of his poems are Dreams,I Sing Too
  America,and Life is Fine.

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Before There Was Destinys Child There was Diana
Ross The Supremes

• Created by India Pruitt

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Destinys Child

• Destinys childs first album entitled Destinys
  childs spawned their 1996 hit No,No,No.

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Diana Ross and the Supremes

• The Supremes started in in Motown in 1964 in
  Detroit Michigan.
• All together they made 294 hit songs.
• They met because they use to have the same
  career. Did you Know that?

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Politicians

• Barrack Obama and Harold Washington

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Before there was Barrack Obama

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There was Harold Washington!!!

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Harold Washington Info

• Harold Washington, Born in the Cook County
  Hospital on April 15, 1922-1987.
• 1954 he entered the world of politics as a
  counsel for the 3rd Ward democratic organizer. In
  1964, he was elected to the Illinois House of
  representatives. He ran for Mayor shortly after
  Richard J. Daleys death in 1976 and won a seat
  in the state senate leading him into being the
  first African American Mayor of Chicago.
  Washington won a re-election in 1987, but was
  struck down by a heart attack in November.
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Politicians

• Goodbye, and Thank you for visiting the Abdul
  Brimah.

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Musicians

• Winton Marsalis, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong
• Created By Abdul Brimah

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Before their was Winton Marsalis
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There was Ray Charles!,
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Ray Charles Info

• Ray Charles, Born 1930 in Albany, Georgia grew up
  in Greenville, Florida. At age six, he lost his
  eyesight from Glaucoma after watching his brother
  drown in a washing tub. He was blind and death
  but was still able to make many records and was
  even inducted into the Hall Of Fame for Blues
  Foundation and Rock Roll. Charles died in Los
  Angeles on June 10, 2004 at the age of 73.

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And Louis Armstrong!!!
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Louis Armstrong Info

• Louis Satchmo Armstrong Born from 1901. He
  became the was the greatest jazz Musician of all
  time! On July 6th 1971 the Worlds greatest Jazz
  Musician died in his sleep at the age of 70 in
  his home in Queens, New York.

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Musicians

• Goodbye, and Thank you for visiting the Abdul
  Brimah Slide Show

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Before There Was

• ByTatyana Buchanan

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New School v.s Old School

• The new school will be about Venus williams she
  and her sister where the first black girls to
  win the tennis games.
• The old school would be Althea Gibson she was
  the first black women to play for her dreams and
  she did .

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Venus Williams

• She was the world best women to player tennis .
• To be the best tennis player Althea Gibson.
• She was a tennis player when she was 12 years old
  she met her mind to it and did it.

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Before there was Althea Gibson

• She is the first black women to play tennis .
• She got a goal and she did it.
• Her mom told her girl if you fall down and stay
  there you are the loser.
• That is where she is today died but she did a
  lot before she died

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Before There Was

• By Daniel Ashford

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Walter Payton

• Born July 25, 1954.
• Birthplace-Columbia, Mississippi.
• Played in the NFL for the Chicago Bears
• He was a running back
• He holds 7 NFL football records and 28 Bears
  records

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Terrell Owens

• Terrell plays for the NFL EAGLES
• He is 266 pounds
• He is 6-3
• Born in Alexander City. Georgia
• He is a wide receiver
• Nickname TO

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