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Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and President Barack Obama

For the most part, educators say, K-12 students who do learn about black history are hearing about the same few historical figures over and over: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and President Barack Obama. Getty Images (4).