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Barbie is a fashion model and cultural icon who has been at the forefront of American pop culture for more than six decades.

Isaac Singer, of Singer Manufacturing Company, invented an affordable sewing machine for use in the home and manufactured it with partner Edward Clark.

Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, subject of the 2023 biopic Rustin, planned the 1963 March on Washington and was best known for his role as an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

Ken Jeong is a Korean-American actor, comedian and physician, best known for his role as the comedic gangster Leslie Chow in ‘The Hangover’ film franchise.

Byron De La Beckwith killed civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963. After two trials had hung juries in 1964, he was finally convicted of the crime in 1994.

Pop singer Ricky Martin was a member of Menudo as a teenager and later exploded onto the pop charts as a solo artist with “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and “She Bangs.”

MC Hammer brought rap music to the mainstream audience with his album ‘Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em,’ the biggest-selling rap album of all time.

Pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the autobiographical ‘Little House’ kids’ book series, the basis of the popular television show ‘Little House on the Prairie.’

Langston Hughes was a Black writer whose poems, columns, novels, and plays made him a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

Nicknamed “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947, her body cut in half and severely mutilated and her killer was never found.