Black History leaders
This national civil rights leader gave her support to the mostly female hospital workers in Charleston.
who is Coretta S. King
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
who is Jackie Robinson
__________ was born into slavery and was a leader of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s.
who is Toussaint L'Ouverture
Lloyd Albert Quarterman was responsible for designing a distillation system for purifying hydrogen fluoride as part of the ________.
what is Manhattan Project
Armstrong Williams received his B.S. degree at this HBCU.
South Carolina State University
She is the Globa Head of Inclusion at Paramount and Executive Vice President, Publich Affairs, Kids & Family Entertainment Brands at Paramount.
Who is Marva Smalls
He was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
who is Ernie Davis
John Elroy Sanford, AKA Redd Foxx, won a Golden Globe Award for this television show in 1973.
what is Sanford and Son
This African American published an almanac and invented a wooden clock.
who is Benjamin Banneker
This HBCU was founded in 1870 in Columbia, South Carolina
what is Benedict College
He organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and convinced President FDR to issue an executive order banning discrimination in the defense industry during World War Two.
who is Asa Philip Randolph
She was the first African American to head up an institution of higher learning (as principal of the Female Department of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia).
Fannie M. Jackson
In 1526, the first ________took place in America when enslaved Africans set fire to the Spanish settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina
What is Slave Rebellion
With more than 130 patents, this chemist pioneered the chemical synthesis of medicine from plants.
who is Percy Julian
Founded in 1869, ______ is the oldest historically black university in South Carolina.
what is Claflin University
._________ was an educator that participated in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Freedom Riders, the NAACP, and community service in his hometown of Sumter, South Carolina.
who is James T. McCain
She was the first African American woman to represent the US as an ambassador.
who is Patricia Harris
On March 3, 1970, angry white residents in the town of _____, attacked three buses carrying African American students to newly desegregated schools in Darlington County, SC.
Lamar
296. W.E.B. Dubois was a founder of this organization.
What is NAACP
This HBCU was first called Atlanta Baptist College.
what is Morehouse College
After he was denied a book from the white-only library, twenty Black students entered Greenville library to attempt to use it.
who is Jesse Jackson
He is the first African American to be promoted to the rank of full professor in the history department of the University of South Carolina.
who is Johnnie McFadden
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a powerful speech in 1852 that decried the injustice and cruelty of celebrating __________ when African Americans lacked freedom and citizenship.
what is Independence Day (4th of July)
Dr. Lloyd Augustus Hall was a pioneer in food chemistry. His patented method of ___________ is still used today.
What is Curing meats
These two Historically Black Colleges and Universities are located across the street from each other in Columbia, South Carolina.
what is Allen and Benedict