Black History Flashcards by Sharon Boyd

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First woman on postage stamp

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Harriet Tubman

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First US Poet Laureat

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Rita Dove

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First to win Pulitzer for poetry

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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First to win Pulitzer for lit

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Alice Walker

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First awarded nobel for lit

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Toni Morrison

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First awarded nobel peace prize

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Ralph Bunche

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First singer at Met Opera

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Marian Anderson

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First miss america

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Vanessa Williams

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First grammy winner

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Harry Belafonte

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First female grammy winner

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Ella Fitzgerald

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First Academy Award (supporting actress)

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Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)

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First Best supporting actor

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Oscar Lou Gossett, Jr (An Officer and a Gentleman)

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First Best Actor Oscar

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Sidney Poitier (lilies of the field)

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First Best Actress Oscar

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Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball)

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First US ambassador to UN

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Andrew Young

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First Supreme Court Justice

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Thurgood Marshall

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First Surgeon General

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Jocelyn Elders

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First Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Colin Powell

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First Congresswoman

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Shirley Chisholm

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First Woman in Senate

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Carol Mosley-Braun

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First to reach north pole

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Matthew Henson

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First in space

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Leon Bluflord, Jr

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First female in space

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Mae Jemison

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First All-american athlete

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Paul Robeson

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First Heavyweight boxing champ

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Jack Johnson

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First masters golf champion

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Tiger Woods

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First to win at wimbledon

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Althea Gibson

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Major League Baseball Player (19th Century)

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Moses Fleetwood Walker

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Major Leagu Baseball Player (20th Century)

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Jackie Robinson

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American League baseball Player (20th Century)

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Larry Doby

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First in the NBA

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Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton

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First to hold a patent (corn harvester)

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Henry Blair

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1st Mayor of Cleveland

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Carl Stokes

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First Mayor of Chicago

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Harold Washington

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First Mayor of NYC

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David Dinkins

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First Mayor of LA

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Tom Bradley

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First Mayor of Detroit (Five times)

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Coleman young

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First female mayer of DC

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Sharon Pratt Kelly

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First Mayor of Atlanta

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Maynard Jackson

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First to enroll at the University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

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First Flying Squadron

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Tuskegee Airmen (WW2)

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Man Killed at Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

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Female Preacher, Abolitionist and Activist

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Sojourner Truth

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19th Century Orator and Former Slave

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Frederick Douglass

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Preacher who led 1831 Slavery Insurrection

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Nat Turner

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Underground Railroad “Conductor”

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Harriet Tubman

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Male Tennis Champio

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Arthur Ashe

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The “Ambassador of Love”

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Pearl Bailey

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Playwright Born in Harlem, 1924

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James Baldwin

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“One O’clock Jump” Band Leader

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Count Basie

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Founder and Ebony and Jet magazines

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John Johnson

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Former Urban League Head and Clinton Advisor

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Vernon Jordan

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Founder of Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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Peanut Cultivator

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George Washington Carver

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Aided in Developing Blood Banks

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Charles Drew

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The Voice of Darth Vader

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James Earl Jones

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Rat Pack Member

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Sammy Davis, Dr

Q

Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus

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Marcia Fudge

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Rainbow Coalition Leader

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Jesse Jackson

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OJ Simpson’s Defense Lawyer

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Johnny Cochran

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Prosecutor in OJ Simpson Trial

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Christopher Darden

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CNN Washington Anchor

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Bernard Shaw

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Founder of the American Dance Theater

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Alvin Ailey

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NAACP Founder

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W.E.B. Dubois

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NAACP rep murdered in Mississippi

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Medgar Evers

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Medal Awarded by NAACP

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Spingarn Medal

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Fund Founded at Tuskege institute, 1944

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United Negro College Fund

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Nationalist Leader assassinated in 1965

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Malcolm X

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Nation of Islam leader

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Louis Farrakhan

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale’s Party

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Black Panthers

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Black Panther Leader and Newspaper Editor

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Eldridge Cleaver

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He coined the term “Black power”

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Adam Clayton Powell

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City of the 1955 Bus Boycott

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Montgomery

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Montgomery Bus Boycott Initiator

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Rosa Parks

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GW Bush National Security Advisor

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Condelezza Rice

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City High School Integrated, 1956

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Little Rock

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University Integrated in 1962

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University of Alabama