Statistics for 20 American historical figures everyone should know

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Abolitionist, suffragette, and political activist who served as a Union spy and helped more than 70 escaped slaves reach freedom	Harriet Tubman	72%
Won 4 Gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics; despite smashing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy, he was also never invited to the White House to meet the President	Jesse Owens	72%
Enslaved preacher who led a rebellion of enslaved and free Black people in Virginia in 1831	Nat Turner	33%
Civil rights organizer in the 1950s and 1960s who was never prominently credited because he was openly gay	Bayard Rustin	28%
Prolific playwright, novelist, and poet who was an innovator of "jazz poetry" and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance	Langston Hughes	28%
First African American and first Native American to hold a pilot's license, she was an inspiration to many before her death in a plane crash in 1926	Bessie Coleman	22%
Established protocols for collecting, storing, and transfusing blood; led collection of blood for US troops during WW2	Dr. Charles Drew	22%
Jazz pianist who wrote thousands of original compositions and provided the soundtrack for the Harlem Renaissance; honored in song by Stevie Wonder	Duke Ellington	22%
Accompanied (preceded, actually) Robert Peary to the North Pole	Matthew Henson	22%
Born into slavery in New York; escaped with her infant child and became a leading abolitionist and advocate for women's rights	Sojourner Truth	22%
Inventor, abolitionist, mathematician, astronomer, and clock-maker who helped survey the land that became Washington DC	Benjamin Banneker	17%
In March, 1955 she was arrested in Montgomery, AL at the age of 15 for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white man	Claudette Colvin	17%
Investigative journalist, educator, and early civil rights activist who was a co-founder of the NAACP	Ida B. Wells	17%
Political scientist who was involved in the formation of the United Nations and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation work in Israel	Ralph Bunche	17%
Civil rights activist, head of Illinois Black Panther Party, founder of the Rainbow Coalition, murdered by Chicago PD and FBI in 1969 at age 21	Fred Hampton	11%
Civil rights & women's rights leader; focused on issues of African American women; President of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years	Dorothy Height	6%
Navigated from New Orleans to Illinois where he settled and for 20 years; now regarded as the founder of Chicago	Jean Baptiste Point du Sable	6%
First player to cross major league baseball’s “color line”, with the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884	Moses Fleetwood Walker	6%
Real estate mogul who turned Harlem into a center of Black culture and art	Philip A. Payton, Jr.	6%
Abolitionist, preacher, former slave, educator; founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Philadelphia in 1794	Richard Allen	6%