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The Descendants

Pauline Copes-Johnson (Video still via theGrio.com)

Tubman relative's black history lesson

Brittany Tom
theGRIO Q&A - Pauline Copes-Johnson,85, is the great-grandniece, and her daughter Deirdre Stanford, 64, is the great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman has been giving presentations about Harriet Tubman's life for over ten years...
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The Descendants

Brittany Tom
SLIDESHOW - theGrio decided to track down some of the living descendants of well-known African-American historical figures to find out what it is like being related to some of most the influential people in history...
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A'lelia Bundles, descendant of Madam C.J. Walker (Courtesy of A'lelia)

Why Madam CJ Walker's great-great granddaughter left family business

Brittany Tom
theGRIO Q&A - Walker is credited with being the first female self-made millionaire through her successful beauty and hair product line targeted toward black women throughout the early 1900s...
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Kenneth Morris, descendant of both Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass (Courtesy of Kenneth)

Descendant of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass opens up

Brittany Tom
theGRIO Q&A - Booker T. Washington is known as one of the most influential black educators in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Frederick Douglass was a leader of the abolitionist movement who fought to end slavery in the southern United States, decades before the Civil War....
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Arthur McFarlane II, descendant of W.E.B. Dubois (Courtesy of Arthur)

W.E.B. Du Bois' great grandson: Legacy helped me understand identity

Brittany Tom
theGRIO Q&A - W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent scholar and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
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Michelle, Daniel and David Duster. Descendants of Ida B. Wells (Courtesy of Michelle Duster)

Ida B. Wells' great grandchildren say she was a 'crusader'

Brittany Tom
theGRIO Q&A - Ida B. Wells was one of the most prominent black journalists and newspaper editors at the time and an active member of the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s...
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