AUSTIN — Texas has cut about five dozen people from its social studies curriculum to streamline the number of historical figures about whom students will learn.

The State Board of Education voted on these cuts to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, curriculum in November. But a finalized list wasn't available until recently. The Dallas Morning News combed through the 445 people on the list to figure out who made the cut and who didn't.

Several people slated for deletion were ultimately kept in the curriculum after public outcry. These include Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton, who are recommended but not required to be taught in third grade and high school history, respectively. The following nine people and groups were also kept in the curriculum after being on the chopping block:

José Antonio Navarro (kindergarten, Grades 4 and 7)

The Women Airforce Service Pilots , or WASP (Grade 2)

The Navajo Code Talkers (Grade 2, U.S. History Since 1877)

Benjamin Banneker (Grade 3)

The Four Chaplains (Grade 3)

John Paul Jones (Grade 8)

Wentworth Cheswell (Grade 8)

Eleanor Roosevelt (Grade 1, U.S. History Since 1877)

Omar Bradley (U.S. History Since 1877)

But several others weren't so lucky.

For example, Colin Powell and Oprah Winfrey were cut, as were American Civil Liberties Union leader Clarence Darrow and Republican presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater. All four were recommended, but not required, to be taught.

Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock, whom second-graders were required to learn, was also cut. And eighth-graders will no longer need to learn about John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay or Daniel Webster.

Several other men were axed from a recommended list of "significant individuals and events concerning Texas and the Civil War," including Confederate Postmaster General John Reagan and Confederate soldier John Bell Hood of Hood's Texas Brigade, whose likeness adorns a large statue on the state Capitol grounds.

Teachers can still choose to include these individuals in their lesson plans. Removing them from the curriculum does not bar them from being taught in the classroom.

The board made its decisions based on recommendations from work groups that met early last year. The groups looked at the hundreds of people in the history curriculum in Texas, created a rubric for their importance, ranked them on that rubric and then recommended several be eliminated. The board first voted on these cuts in September, then took a final vote two months later.

Here is a full list of the historical figures eliminated from the Texas curriculum: