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 Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born on July 10, 1943, in Richmond, Virginia. He was the first and only African American player to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon. After brain surgery in 1988 came the discovery that Ashe had been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. Ashe established the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS to provide treatment to AIDS patients and to promote AIDS research throughout the world.

 Roberto Walker Clemente was born in Barrio San Anton in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18, 1934. Roberto Clemente is remembered today as one of the game's best all-round right fielders, with one of the best arms in baseball. Often referred to as "The Great One," Clemente was the first Latin American player elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. Tragically, Roberto Clemente's life ended on December 31, 1972 in a plane crash while en route to Nicaragua with relief supplies for earthquake victims.

 Born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts DuBois was a scholar and political activist. W.E.B. DuBois' life-long fight for racial equality earned him a lasting and important place in this country's history. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois attended Harvard University and in 1895 became the first African-American to receive a doctorate from the school. DuBois continued for decades as a strong public voice on behalf of African-Americans.

 Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C. He divided his studies between music and commercial art, and by 1918 established a reputation as a bandleader and agent. In 1923 he went to New York City and soon became a successful bandleader. After the 1940s he concentrated more on longer works, including several suites (arrangements of music) built around a central theme, frequently an aspect of African American life. Always a fine orchestral pianist, with a style influenced by the Harlem stylists of the 1920s.

 Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair was the second African American to fly in space. He was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. He graduated for North Carolina A&T State University where he graduated with a bachelor's of science degree in physics in 1971. He and six other astronauts died aboard the space shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986. To honor Dr. McNair, the United States Congress endowed the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

 Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1935 he successfully attacked segregation in education when he participated in the desegregation of the University of Maryland Law School. The most famous case won by Marshall was Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed segregation in public schools and more or less ended the practice once and for all. On October 2, 1967, Marshall became the first African American justice to sit on the Supreme Court.