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Kingdom of Kuba

The Kuba Kingdom, also known as the Bakuba Kingdom or Bushongo, is a traditional Central African kingdom. The Kuba Kingdom flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries in the heart of the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordered by the Sankuru, Lulua, and Kasai rivers. The Kuba Kingdom was a federation of several smaller Bushongo-speaking principalities, as well as …

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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield ( 1819 – 1876)

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was born a slave in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1819. She had little reason to dream of the life that would become her own. Because of a series of strange events and her own hard work, she became known as the first African American singer to become famous in both the United States and Europe. Long before she …

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Vivienne Malone-Mayes: the fifth African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Vivienne Malone-Mayes was born on February 10, 1932. She was the fifth African American woman to get a Ph.D. in math. Malone-Mayes was born and raised in Waco, Texas. She graduated from A.J. She was only 16 when she went to Moore High School. Even though she went to a separate high school in Waco, she did well and moved …

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