Who Am I ? Black History people – Flashcards
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. Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 . I was a leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955 . Nonviolent protest
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I portrayed the great jazz singer Billie Holiday in the movie Lady Sings the Blues.
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Diana Ross
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Specializes in agricultural and industrial education
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Booker T. Washington
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Developed over 300 uses for the peanut
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George Washington Carver
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The first black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera Company
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Marian Anderson
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Scored most points in the NBA NCAA basketball championship Professional First NBA championship
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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Roots
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Alex Haley
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Broke the " color line " in major league baseball Brooklyn Dodgers
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Jackie Robinson
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First black U.S. Senator
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Edward Brooke
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Served in the U.S. congress. In 1972 she ran for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
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Shirley Chisholm
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NAACP
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Killed in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770
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Crispus Attucks
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Mayor of Los Angeles
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Tom Bradley
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Heavyweight champion
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Muhammad Ali
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In 1950 she was the first black American ever to play in the U.S. lawn Tennis Association championship tournament at Forest Hills, New York
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Althea Gibson
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The first black American ever to serve on the U.S. supreme court
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Thurgood Marshall
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Born into slavery and became the greatest of the black abolitionist before the Civil War
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Fredrick Douglas
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For many years i was a follower of Elijah Muhammad, and a leading spokesman for his nation of Islam the " black Muslims". Later, however I broke with Muhammad.
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Malcolm X
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" Giant of jazz " " Satchmo "
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Louis Armstrong
