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agent of the Revolutionary War Banneker, Benjamin ( Ellicott City ) The African-American scientist who helped survey

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great Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 Hearst, George 19th century American mining and publishing

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1930-32), then embarked on an ill-fated film project in Mexico (sponsored by American writer Upton Sinclair ) before

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of Defense, and from 1969 to 1972 worked to get American POWs out of

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black slave and a white plantation owner, was the first African-American to serve

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and one of the few outlets for black culture on American television at the

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