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Pocahontas 1596–1617Indigenous Leaders & Native NationsPowhatan woman whose life and later myth became central to American narratives of early colonization.
Dred Scott 1800–1858Civil Rights & Social ReformEnslaved man whose lawsuit produced the Supreme Court ruling that Black Americans could not be citizens.
Emmett Till 1941–1955Civil Rights & Social ReformFourteen-year-old from Chicago murdered in Mississippi in 1955, whose mother kept the casket open.Sally Hemings 1773–1835Civil Rights & Social ReformEnslaved woman at Monticello who bore children by Thomas Jefferson and negotiated their freedom in France.