Did you know that the February 17, 2005 bill declaring June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month included the names of influential Caribbean -Americans such as Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the pioneer settler of Chicago; Claude McKay, a poet of the Harlem Renaissance; James Weldon Johnson, the writer of the Black National Anthem; Shirley Chisolm, the first African-American Congresswoman and first African-American woman candidate for President; and Celia Cruz, the world renowned queen of Salsa music?
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