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  Breaking Barriers: U.S. minority leaders
From the first Hispanic governor (in 1853) to the first African-American to be elected president, learn about how ethnic barriers have been broken in the United States through the years.

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Meet Tiana, Disney’s first black princess
Nov. 26: Little girls lining up in New York and Los Angeles for the limited preview of Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” will witness a first: a princess who happens to be African-American. NBC’s Chris Jansing reports.

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  Martin Luther King Jr.
See the civil rights leader in speeches and marches from Alabama to Washington.

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updated 6:18 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2007


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