Eminent Leaders
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Born in Harlem 1937 Awarded Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Solidiers Medal 1st asst to President Reagan for National Security Affairs 1st Black Secretary of State (Bush)
Who is Colin Powell
100
Civil Rights Activist noted for desegregating the University of Mississippi Killed by Byron DeLaBeckwith - (30 yrs to bring killer to justice)
Who is Medgar Evers?
100
Created blook banks Dicovered technique for preservation of blood DIscovered everyone has same blood plasma
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
100
Founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) First African American Owner of Professional Sports Team (Bobcats)
Who is Robert Johnson?
200
Founder of Provident Hospital Improved conditions for Blacks in hospitals Fellow of American College of Surgeons
Who is Dr.Hale Lewis
200
Instituted in 1914 by James Spingarn Gold award for the highest and noblest achievement by an American Negro Purpose of the medal is to call attention to the existence of distinguished merit and achievement among Blacks and serve as a reward for such achievement
What is the Spingarn Medal?re
200
First Black hospital director (Freedman's Hospital) First black professor at a medical school First black commissioned in segreated U.S. Army Highest Black officer (Lt. Col)
Who is Alexander Thomas Augusta
200
Became San Francisco's first black female cable car operator Author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"; "Georgia, Georgia" Noimated for the Pulitzer Prize (1972)
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
Author of Up from Slavery Founder of Tuskegee Institute Helped Black Americans rise from ecomonic slavery
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
First African American to run for President First African American women elected to Congress C-Founder of National Organization of Women (NOW)
Who is Shirley Chislom?
300
Educated by Quakers and self-taught Helped survey D.C. (first territory) Built one of the first watches made in America Published Farmer's Almanac
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
300
Author of "Song of Solomon"; "Beloved"; 'The Bluest Eyes" Won Nobel Prize for Literature (1993)
Who is Toni Morrison
400
Preacher Helped recruit solidiers for 1st black MD regimen Established a school for freedman 1870 elected as a Senator (Mississippi) First African American Senator President of Alcorn College, the first landgrant college for balck students
Who Hiram Revels?
400
Born January 30, 1944 Professor at Antioch School of Law Worked for PEPCO - Vice Presient of Public Polocy 1990 - Elected as first African American female mayor
Who is Sharon Pratt Dixion
400
Born May 22, 1940 Television journalist First Chief anchor of CNN Moderated 1988 presidental debate covered 1989 Tinanment Square
Who is Bernard Shaw?
400
Poet; playwright Wrote essays about race and social justice Hailed as the Negro Poet Laureate
Who is James Langston Hughes?
500
Created phrase "black is beautiful" Leader of "back to Africa" movement Garveyism - gospel of racial pride deported back to Jamaica (1927)
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
Attended Oberlin College (graduated 1884) Married Robert Herberton Terrell Appointed to DC Board of Education Charter member of NAACP Formed Delta Sigma Theha Sorority at Howard
Who is Mary Church Terrell
500
Author of "Roots" story of his family's journey from Africa to America
Who is Dr. Alex Haley?
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