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  2. Jack Andraka - Wikipedia

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    Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers.

  3. Sal Castro - Wikipedia

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    Castro continued to lecture student groups across the country and helps run leadership conferences for high school students. On October 13, 2009, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to name a new Middle School, located on the campus of Belmont High School, Sal Castro Middle School. The school was officially dedicated on Saturday June 5 ...

  4. Jaime Escalante - Wikipedia

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    In 1974, he began to teach at Garfield High School. Escalante was initially so disheartened by the lack of preparation of his students that he called his former employer and asked for his old job back. Escalante eventually changed his mind about returning to work when he found 12 students willing to take an algebra class. [6]

  5. Elizabeth Eckford - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  6. Joe Louis Clark - Wikipedia

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    Clark was born in Rochelle, Georgia, on May 8, 1938.At the age of 6, Clark and his family moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he would graduate from Central High School. [2] [3] He went on to receive a bachelor's degree from William Paterson College, a master's degree from Seton Hall University, and an honorary doctorate from the U.S. Sports Academy.

  7. Barbara Rose Johns - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) [1] was a leader in the American civil rights movement. [2] On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.

  8. Black Boy - Wikipedia

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    Black Boy was first challenged in New York in 1976 by the board of education of the Island Trees Free School District in New York. [15] It was soon the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1982. [19] Petitioners against the inclusion of Black Boy described the autobiography as "objectionable" and "improper fare for school students."

  9. Leonard Covello - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Covello (November 26, 1887 – August 19, 1982) was an Italian-born American educator, most known as the founder and first principal of the Benjamin Franklin High School and for his work on behalf of the children of Italian and Puerto Rican immigrants.