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Today’s Google doodle honors Esther Afua Ocloo, an entrepreneur and women’s rights activist who helped women — first in Ghana, and eventually around the world — start their own businesses. Born in Ghana on April 18, 1919, Ocloo’s first venture in business was as a teenager, when she began selling …

Today’s Google doodle honors Fazlur Rahman Khan, the architect and engineer behind some of the world’s tallest buildings during the latter part of the 20th century. Born in East Bengal, British India, in 1947, Khan completed his graduate work in the US, eventually working in the Skidmore, Owings Merrill design …

As we kick off Black History Month, Google is continuing to spotlight Americans who have pushed boundaries, with today’s doodle celebrating American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Born in New York in 1844, Google recognizes Lewis as the first US female of African-American and Native American descent to become a world-renowned sculptor. …

Google is honoring Japanese internment camp survivor Fred Korematsu on what would have been the civil rights activist’s 98th birthday. Born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents, Korematsu went into hiding in 1942 to avoid being incarcerated after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order to incarcerate people of Japanese descent …

Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to Ed Roberts, an early leader of the disability rights movement and co-founder of the World Institute on Disability. After contracting polio at age 14, Roberts was paralyzed from the neck down. In spite of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair and …