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Black History Flashcards

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Black underground railroad “conductor”

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Harriet Tubman

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Founder of Ebony and Jet magazines

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John Johnson

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3
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University integrated in 1962

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University of Alabama

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4
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Black orator and former slave

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Frederick Douglas

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5
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First Black Surgeon General

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Jocelyn Elders

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First Black starring role on television

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Diahann Carroll (for Julia)

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7
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Black 19th century educator; founder of Tuskegee institute

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Booker T. Washington

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First Black singer for the Metropolitan Opera

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Marian Anderson

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9
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First Black US Poet Laureate

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Maya Angelou

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10
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Black preacher who led 1831 insurrection against slavery

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Nat Turner

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11
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First Black US Ambassador to United Nations

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Andrew Young

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12
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First Black in space

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Leon Bluford Jr.

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13
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Black Rainbow Coalition leader

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Jesse Jackson

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14
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First Black in the NBA

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Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton

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15
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First Black major league baseball player (19th century)

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Moses Fleetwood Walker

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16
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First Black awarded Nobel Peace prize

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Ralph Bunche

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17
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First Black mayor of Los Angeles

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Tom Bradley

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18
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First Black to win Pulitzer prize for literature

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Alice Walker

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19
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First Black Congresswoman

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Shirley Chisholm

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20
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“One O’clock Jump” band leader

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Count Basie

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21
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First Black to reach the North Pole

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Matthew Henson

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22
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Black founder of The American Dance Theater

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Alvin Ailey

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23
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First Black awarded Nobel Prize for literature

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Toni Morrison

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24
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Black Peanut cultivator

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George Washington Carver

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25
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First Black heavyweight boxing champion

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Jack Johnson

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26
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First Black major league baseball player (20th century)

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Jackie Robinson

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27
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Black Texas congresswoman 1972-78

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Barbara Jordan

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28
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Woman who inititated the Montgomery bus boycott

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Rosa Parks

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29
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First Black Supreme Court Justice

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Thurgood Marshall

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30
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First Black American league baseball player (20th century)

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Larry Doby

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31
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First Black mayor of Detroit (five times)

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Coleman Young

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32
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First Black mayor of Atlanta

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Maynard Jackson

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33
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Black Soprano at Metropolitan Opera 1976-85

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Leontyne Price

34
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seal’s party - founded 1966

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Black Panthers

35
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Black female preacher abolitionist and activist

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Sojourner Truth

36
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First Black Miss America

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Vanessa Williams

37
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First Black Coach in any professional sport

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Bill Russell

38
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Black male tennis champion

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Arthur Ashe

39
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Nation of Islam leader

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Louis Farrakhan

40
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Black man killed at Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

41
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NAACP representative murdered in Mississippi - 1965

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Medgar Evers

42
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First Black female mayor of Washington D.C.

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Sharon Pratt Kelly

43
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O.J. Simpson’s defense lawyer

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Johnny Cochran

44
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Black Miss America - 1991

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Debbye Turner

45
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First Black mayor of New York City

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David Dinkins

46
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He coined the term “black power”

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Adam Clayton Powell

47
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First Black to hold a patent (corn harvester)

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Henry Blair

48
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First Black to win Pulitzer prize for poetry

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Gwendolyn Brooks

49
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Black female figure skater

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Debi Thomas

50
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Black Panther leader and newspaper editor

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Eldridge Cleaver

51
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First Black Major league baseball coach

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Frank Robinson

52
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The Voice of Darth Vader

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James Earl Jones

53
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First Black Grammy winner

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Harry Belafonte

54
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First Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Colin Powell

55
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First Black flying squadron

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Tuskegee Airmen (WWII)

56
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Prosecutor in O.J. Simpson trial

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Christopher Darden

57
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First Black to win at Wimbledon

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Althea Gibson

58
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First Black Woman in the Senate

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Carol Mosely-Braun

59
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Medal awarded by NAACP

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Spingarn Medal

60
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Former Urban League head and Clinton advisor

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Vernon Jordan

61
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First Black masters golf champion

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Tiger Woods

62
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City of the 1955 bus boycott

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Montgomery

63
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Black CNN Washington anchor

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Bernard Shaw

64
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George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor

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Condoleeza Rice

65
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First Black Academy Award winner

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Hattie McDaniel

66
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First Black mayor of Chicago

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Harold Washington

67
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First Black to enroll at the University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

68
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First Black woman in space

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Mae Jameson

69
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Black Nationalist leader assassinated - 1965

70
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Fund founded at Tuskegee Institute - 1944

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United Negro College Fund

71
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NAACP founder 1909

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W.E.B. DuBois

72
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Black aid in developing blood banks

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Charles Drew

73
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Black president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference after Martin Luther King

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Ralph Abernathy

74
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First Black mayor of Cleveland

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Carl Stokes

75
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The “Ambassador of Love”

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Pearl Bailey

76
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First Black Female Grammy winner

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Ella Fitzgerald

77
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Black playwright born in Harlem - 1924

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James Baldwin

78
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Black Rat Pack member

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Sammy Davis Jr.

79
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City high school integrated - 1956

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Little Rock

80
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First Black All-American athlete

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Paul Robeson

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