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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
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Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
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What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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Who was a teacher and civil rights activist while serving as the first Black President of Atlanta's School Board?

Who is Benjamin Elijah Mays

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Which Columbia native graduated from the Naval Academy, joined the US Marines and flew four missions in space?

Who is Charles Bolden Jr

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Who was the first African-American female admitted to the Mississippi Bar.

Who is Marian Wright Edelman

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Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 Who was the first African-American woman admitted to the SC Bar. Ten years later, working in Atlanta and active in the NAACP, she assisted Thurgood Marshall on cases which ultimately overturned the legality of segregated public facilities in the South.

Who is Cassandra Maxwell

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This grueling protest resulted in the death of Three students whom were boycotting the segregation laws of All-Star Bowling Triangle bowling alley.

What is the Orangeburg Massacre

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This Charleston native is known for his scientific advancements in Physiology of development, experimental parthenogenesis, and cellular division.

Who is Dr. Ernest Everett Just

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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
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This US Congress representative hijacked a Confederate steamship and drove to Union safety

Who is Robert Smalls

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Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
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This Beaufort native is most known for his grueling battle with Muhammad Ali which lasted 14 rounds.

Who is Joe Frazier

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This Georgetown Native was the first African American elected into the House of Representatives?

Who is Joseph Hayne Rainey

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Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
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Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
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Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
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Which Cheraw native taught himself how to play the trumpet which led to the rise of bebop and modern jazz.

Who is Dizzy Gillespie

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Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?

Who is Madame CJ Walker

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Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
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Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
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Who helped establish Citizenship Schools across the south the help African Americans to read and write?

Who is Septima Poinsette Clark

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Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
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