Black History – Flashcards

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This person started a school in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and framing.
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Booker T Washington
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This person started a newspaper called "The North Star".
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Fredrick Douglas
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This person refused to give up a seat on the bus. That led to a 382 day bus boycott by black people in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rosa Parks
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When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold as a slave.
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George Washington Carver
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Because this person led so many slave to freedom, he or she was sometimes called Moses.
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Harriet Tubman
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This person was a doctor who spent two years working with poor people in Africa before she went on to become famous.
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Mae Jemison
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One of 13 children, this person birth name was Isabella Baumfree.
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Sojourner Truth
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The president named this person to be the first black to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court on the land.
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Thurgood Marshall
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In 1962, this person became the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Jackie Robinson
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This person performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous.
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Jesse Owens
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This person invented a machine, called a "lasting machine," that stitched the leather shoe to its sole.
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Jan Matzeliger
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This person served 3 years in reform school for attempted burglary before writing many famous rock-in-roll songs.
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Chuck Berry
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This person sang in church choirs while growing up as the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers.
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Leontyne Price
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This person worked at childcare center before becoming a well-known political figure.
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Shirley Chisholm
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A Nation of Islam minister at one time, this person was assassinated while giving a speech in 1965.
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Malcom X
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Given first and middle names at birth were "Edward Kennedy".
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Duke Ellington
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The first black congresswomen to be elected from the Deep South.
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Barbara Jordan
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A Harvard grad, played a role in starting the National Association from the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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W.E.B DuBois
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This person helped register black voters in Mississippi and led boycotts there of firms that practiced racial that practiced racial discrimination.
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Medgar Evans
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awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in making a Arab-Israeli peace in 1949.
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Ralph Bunche
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This lay preacher led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831.
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Nat Turner
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This person, who was 1/13, died in an airplane crash.
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Bessie Coleman
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This person, who was famous writer of piano music, was known as the "King of Ragtime".
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Scott Joplin
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When first out of college, this person worked as a TV news reporter.
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Oprah Winfrey
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This person, a well-known trumpet player, was known by the nickname "Satchmo".
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Louis Armstrong
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This person attend the University of California on a tennis scholarship.
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Arthur Ashe
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This person was a teacher in Mississippi before she became a well-known journalist.
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Ida-Wells Barnett
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This person was appointed by President George Washington to help survey the land that would become Washington DC.
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Ben Banneker
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This person was the world heavyweight boxing champ in 1937 to 1949.
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Joe Louis
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wrote proudly of black people in books, poems and plays.
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Langston Hughs
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IN 1870, this person was the first black to serve in the US House of Representatives.
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Joe Hayne Rainy
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This person, the child of former slaves, invented the ironing board, the lawn sprinkler, and many other useful things.
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Elijah McCoy
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one of the first people killed in the cause of American Independence.
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Crispus Attucks
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This civil rights advocate told her life story in the book "A Colored Women in a White World".
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Mary Eliza Church Terrell
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This person, the 15th of 17 children to born of former slaves, grew up to become a college president.
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Mary McClead
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This herons, the child of ex-slaves, developed a hair product and died a millionaire.
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Madame CJ Walker
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Many consider this fur and grain trader to be the founder of the city of Chicago.
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Jean Baptist
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This former col mine worker born to former slaves got a degree from Harvard and started "Black History Month".
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Carter G Woodson
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Many consider this doctor to be the originator of the Blood Black concept.
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Charles Drew
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This person, the child of a runaway slave, was a football All- American and well known actor and singer.
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Paul Rebesson
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