Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'

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• Will Rogers

  Actor

  Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
  Thursday, Aug 15, 1935

• Barack Obama

  44Th U.s. President

  Friday, Aug 04, 1961
  

• William Blake

  Poet

  Monday, Nov 28, 1757
  Sunday, Aug 12, 1827

• Martin Luther

  Monk

  Saturday, Nov 10, 1483
  Monday, Feb 18, 1546

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

  34Th U.s. President

  Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
  Friday, Mar 28, 1969

• Kim Kardashian

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  Tuesday, Oct 21, 1980
  

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
  Thursday, Oct 06, 1892

• George Orwell

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  Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
  Saturday, Jan 21, 1950

• Thomas Jefferson

  3Rd US President

  Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
  Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826

• Steve Jobs

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  Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
  Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011

• Stephen Covey

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  Monday, Oct 24, 1932
  Monday, Jul 16, 2012

• Winston Churchill

  Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

  Monday, Nov 30, 1874
  Sunday, Jan 24, 1965

• Kanye West

  Songwriter

  Wednesday, Jun 08, 1977
  Thursday, Jun 04, 2015

• Vincent Van Gogh

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  Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
  Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890

• Carl Jung

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  Monday, Jul 26, 1875
  Tuesday, Jun 06, 1961