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TWELVE LIVES. INFINITE IMPACT.
Every card in the Education Hub opens into a full story page — the record, the receipts, and the line in the music it belongs to.
01 · Astronomer
Benjamin Banneker
1731—1806
The self-taught astronomer who measured the sky, surveyed a capital, and put the case against slavery in writing.
02 · Inventor
Garrett Morgan
1877—1963
The inventor whose safety hood pulled men out of a tunnel and whose signal still governs every intersection you cross.
03 · Emperor
Mansa Musa
c. 1280—1337
The emperor who spent so freely on pilgrimage that he moved the price of gold — and then bought libraries with the rest.
04 · Astronaut
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Doctor, engineer, dancer, astronaut — the first Black woman in orbit, who took an Alvin Ailey poster with her.
05 · Revolutionary
Thomas Sankara
1949—1987
Four years in power, a country renamed, millions vaccinated — and a president who sold the state Mercedes fleet.
06 · Statesman
Nelson Mandela
1918—2013
Twenty-seven years in prison, then a negotiated transfer of power instead of a reckoning.
07 · Freedom Fighter
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929—1968
The preacher who organised a bus boycott into a movement — and died campaigning for sanitation workers' wages.
08 · Freedom Fighter
Malcolm X
1925—1965
The man who read his way out of a prison cell and never stopped rewriting his own conclusions.
09 · Freedom Fighter
Harriet Tubman
c. 1822—1913
She escaped once, then went back roughly thirteen times — and never lost a passenger.
10 · Inventor
Lewis Latimer
1848—1928
He drafted the patent drawings for the telephone and made the light bulb last long enough to sell.
11 · Entrepreneur
Madam C. J. Walker
1867—1919
A laundress at twenty dollars a month who built a factory, a sales army, and a fortune she gave away.
12 · Mathematician
Katherine Johnson
1918—2020
John Glenn refused to fly until she had checked the computer's numbers by hand.