Black History Bee Flashcards
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Who wrote, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?
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Zora Neal Hurtson
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Who is the author of the first published novel, Clothel, by a Black American in 1833?
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Williams Wells Brown
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Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903
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W.E.B Dubios
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Who was the first Black American chosen as Miss America?
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Vanessa Williams
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In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels
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Toni Morrision
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What New York library houses rare collections of Black Culture?
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The Schomburg Center
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What Harlem theater is a showcase for Black Culture?
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The Apollo
8
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What author promoted her first novel, Mama, by contacting colleges and universities?
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Terry Wiliams
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Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Renaissance arts director Augustus Savage was what type of artist?
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Sculptor
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Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag
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Scott Joplin
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What musical instrument did jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. play?
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Saxophone
12
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What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
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Marian Anderson
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Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in the Sun?
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working at what popular magazine?
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Life
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Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?
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Leotyne Price
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What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African Royalty?
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Kente Cloth
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What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?
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Jazz
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The first work authorized by a black female former slave was a book written by Harriett A. Jacobs in 1861. What was the name of this book?
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Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Angelou’s first autobiography?
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Who wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Steve
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What terms generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920” and early 1930’s?
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Harlem Renaissance
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Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Who was the first Black performer to receive a Tony Award?
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Hattie McDaniel
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Who was the first Black woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer
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Florence Prince
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What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planet's Peanuts?
Elmer Stoner
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She is a dance choreographer, director, and producer who was involved with the television show Fame.
Debbie Allen
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Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the US?
Philadelphia Tribune Allen
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Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
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Who published the first Black American women's in the US?
Josephine Ruffin
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The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
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What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
Ebony
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\What was the name of Marcus Garvey's shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks?
Black Star Line
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Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue Magzine?
Beverly Jones
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What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Cars Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March in Washington?
A. Philip Randolph
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Who was the first Black American woman to have her one weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
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What organization helps fund over forty Black American Colleges
United Negro College Fund
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What is the name of the institute that was founded b Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskee Inistitute
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Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
Spelman College
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Who was the first Black American to receive a degree from Harvard University?
Richard Greener
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Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University
Patrick Healy
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Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore Maryland in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. What school is this today?
Morgan State University
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Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, see he had to be escorted to class by US Marshalls?
James Merdith
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Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine at what famous Black college in Washington?
Howard University
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Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune find?
Bethune-Cookman College
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What artist recorded the songs, "I Will Always Love You", "The Greatest Love of All", and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"?
Whitney Houston
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What film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for best actor?
Training Day
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Which of Micheal Jackson's albums is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling album of all time
Thriller
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What is the name of the group that wrote the first rap song (Rapper's Delight) to achieve commercial success in 1979?
The Sugar Hill Game
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Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White House?
Sammy Davis Jr.
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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, he recorded the 1957 hit You Send Me.
Sam Cooke
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Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizzell made up a famous 80's rap group. What was the name of the group?
Run DMC
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She is known as the "queen of hip-hop soul".
Mary J. Blige
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This trumpet player was a vocalist who was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What is his name?
Louis Armstrong
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James Tod Smith is the given name of what Rap/actor?
LL Cool J
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Billie Holiday's life was subjected of what famous film?
Lady Sings the Blues
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Who was the first Black American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
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What famous musician's trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skywards?
Dizzy Gillespie
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Who is called "The Queen of the Blues"?
Dinah Washington
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Who is the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet who sold over 4 million copies of their album, Cooley High Harmony?
Boyz ll Men
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B.B. King is famous for what kind of music?
Blues
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Noted as the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what artist is known as the "empress of the blues"?
Bessie Smith
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Who is known as the "queen of soul"?
Aretha Franklin
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What anti-slavery newspaper was founded y Federick Douglass?
The North Star
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In 1960, what did four black American students do at a whites-only lunch counter to protest against discrimination?
Staged a "sit-in"
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What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?
Spinx
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What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
National Associations of the Advancement of Colored People
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After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was he?
Malcolm X
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Who lost her teaching job as a result of a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked as "White-Only"?
Ida B Wells
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Who were the founders of the Black Pantehr's Part?
Huey P Newton and Bobby Seals
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What New York City neighborhood was known as the "Negro capital of the world"?
Harlem
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In 1961, groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips to protest segregated bus terminals. y what name was this group known?
Freedom Rivers
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Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen in what country?
Egypt
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What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first church?
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
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Known as the "Father of Negro History" and created black history month.
Carter G Woodson
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Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp?
Booker T Washington
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Who was the first black American awarded a Rhode's Scholarship in 1940?
Alin Leroy Locke
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During the Civil War, this black pilot sailed a Conferredate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina, and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862
Robert Smalls
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The first African American to die in World War ll during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines.
Robert H Brooks
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Who became the first Black American to hold of major during the Civil War?
Martin Delany
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Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later become an advisor to the U.S. Government?
Henry Flipper
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As well as freeing slaves, she served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army.
Harriet Tubman
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The first Black Americans to attend the US Naval Academy
Henry Conyers
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In 1770, this fugitive slave was the first to die in the Boston Massacre and was called the first mayor of the American Revolution.
Crispis Attucks
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Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiment in the regular U.S. Army, these soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Buffalo Soldiers
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Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
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In 1972, who became the first woman to candidate for president of the United States?
Shirley Chisholm
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In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, becoming the first Black American woman Mayer of a major US city?
Sharon Pratt Kelly
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The celebration observed June 19th to honor the emancipation of African American slaves in the United States is caled?
Juneteenth
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In 2009, he became the first African American U.S. Attorney General and head of the Justice Department
Eric Holder Jr.
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Who was the first Back American national security advisor
Colin Powell
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What militant group embodied the term "Black Power"?
Black Panthers
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The first black female Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice
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What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy?
Wendell Belfield
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These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War ll. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?
Tuskegee Airmen
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He invented the carbon fiber filament for the incandescent lightbulb, making electric lightning more piratical and affordable for the average household.
Lewis Lattimer
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He created the thermostat
Frederick Jones
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Lewis Lattimer prepared the drawings for his invention that ended up getting patented by Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone
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Who invented the common dust mop
T.W. Steward
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In 1872, this inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horse form carriages
T.J.Boyd
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This scientist used sweet potatoes to develop postage stamp glue
George Washington Carver
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He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the united States
St. Elmo Brady
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Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan. E. Marzeliger invented what?
Shoe lasting machine
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The ironing board was invented by what Black American woman?
Sarah Boone
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Who invented the automatic car washer and directional signals for the automobile?
Richard Spikes
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Who patented the envelope seal in 1897?
R. W. Leslie
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Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?
Potato Chip
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Who invented the disposable syringe?
Phil Brooks
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What breakthrough was preformed by Dr.Daniel Hale Williams
Open Heart Surgery
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Matthew Henson was the first expectation to reach what destination?
North Pole
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Who is responsible for inventing the method for converting gas into electricity?
Meredith Guordine
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Who invented the burglar alarm?
Louis Alexander
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Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly to space?
Gulon Bluford, Jr.
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Who designed and patented the dustpan?
L.P Ray
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Who invented the folding bed?
L.C. Bailey
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Who invented the bread crumbling machine and constructed by what Black American?
Joseph Lee
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The Holland Tunnel in New York was designed and constructed by what Black American?
Joseph Parker
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Who mad the first practical shoe-making machine?
Jan Matzelinger
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Who invented the pencil sharpener?
J.L. Love
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Who invented the lawn mower?
J.A. Burr
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Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator?
J. Standard
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Who invented the smallpox vaccine?
Dr. Louis Wright
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She is a viral immunologist at the forefront of creating the Covid-19 vaccine
Dr. Kizzemia Corbett
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Who invented the clothes dryer?
G.T Sampson
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He invented the gas mask for firefighters and the stop light
Garrett Morgan
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What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most well know of his inventions included the ironing tale, and the lubricating cup.
Elijah McCoey
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A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings or skyscrapers?
Elevator
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Who trained in France and received her pilot's license in 1921, making her the first Black Woman to fly a plane?
Bessie Coleman
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Who built the first model of steam power engine, but was unable to patent his work because he was a slave?
Benjamin Bradley
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ho invented a life=saving device for coupling railroad cars?
Andrew J Beard
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Who invented the door lock?
A.W. Johnson
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Who invented the railroad signal
A.B. Blackburn
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These sisters were born in 1980 and 1981. They are champions if Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments. Name Them
Venus and Serena Williams
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Who was the first lack African to play in the play in the National Hockey League?
Val James
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Julius played basketball in the NBA in 1976 until he retire. For what NBA team did he plays
Philadelphia 76ers
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What professional spot did Lee Elder play?
Golf
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She is the first woman and woman of color to be the Vice President of the United States of America.
Kamala Harris
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She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S history
Amdanda Gorman
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He is Georgia's first black senator.
Rapheal Warnock
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MSNBC President and first Black executive to run a major television news network
Rashida Jones
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Princeton University's first black valedictorian
Nicholas Johnson
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She is the first black woman CEO in the NBA
Cynthia Marshall
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Former track star who became and Olympic bobsledder and the first African American to win a gold medal at an olympic event for bobsledding
Vonetta Flowers
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He is the first Black astronaut to live in the International Space Station for an extended stay
Victor Glover
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This 13 year old launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks in November 2015, an international movement to collect and donate children's that features as the lead characters.
Marley Dias
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his former state represent has founded and organization dedicated ti fighting voter suppression. She also ran for Governor of the State of Georgia.
Stacey Arbrams
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She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Naomi Osaka
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This comedian is a native Philadelphian and she is the creator and star to the television show, Abbott Elementary.
Quinta Brunson
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She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Naomi Osaka
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The most decorated American gymnast and the third decorated gymnast in the world.
Simone Biles
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highest earning Black musician in history.
Beyonce Knowles
