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100

HIRED THE FIRST BLACK DIRECTOR AT GHS

DANIS RUSSELL

100

"EBONY AND IVORY LIVE TOGETHER IN PERFECT HARMONY"

PAUL McCARTNEY AND STEVIE WONDER

100

EMMETT TILL'S AGE AT DEATH


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100

AN AMERICAN R&B/SOUL FAMILY MUSIC GROUP FROM ATLANTA, GA WITH THEY WERE THE FIRST TO RECORD THE HIT SINGLE VERSION OF "I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE"

GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS

100

HER DELICIOUS PIES ARE FAMOUS AND SOLD AT WALMART AND WILL GIVE YOU "A NEW ATTITUDE"

PATTI LABELLE

PATTI PIES


200

 AFTER LEARNING THE VENUE WAS SEGREGATED THIS PERFORMER DECIDED TO "HIT THE ROAD JACK"

RAY CHARLES


200

“THE TIME FOR YOU AND ME TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BRUTALIZED NON-VIOLENTLY IS PASSED... BE NON-VIOLENT ONLY WITH THOSE WHO ARE NON-VIOLENT TO YOU"

MALCOLM X

200

WHAT YEAR WAS THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE

1921 

200

MAKING DETROIT HER HOME THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND PIANIST HAS OFTEN DEMANDED "RESPECT" FOR HER ROLE AS "QUEEN OF SOUL"

ARETHA FRANKLIN


200

FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WIN OLYMPIC GOLD IN SOLO SPEED SKATING EVENT 

ERIN JACKSON


300

THIS GOVERNMENT AGENCY HIRED THEIR FIRST BLACK WOMEN "COMPUTERS" AND WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE SUCCESS OF JOHN GLENNS SUCCESSFUL MISSION-- A MOVIE WAS MADE IN 2016

NASA 

300

"CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?"

RODNEY KING


300

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN MINTED ON THE U.S.  QUARTER

MAYA ANGELOU

300

FIRST BLACK PERFORMER TO WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD

HATTIE MCDANIEL BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1940


300

CREATED THE IRONING BOARD AS WE KNOW IT TODAY


SARAH BOONE

400

PIONEERED THE ANTI-LYNCHING LAWS-CALLING FOR PRESIDENT MCKINLEY TO MAKE A REFORM

IDA B. WELLS

400

WE MUST GAIN SECURITY IN OURSELVES AND THERFORE HAVE RESPECT AND FEELINGS FOR ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE.

HUEY P. NEWTON


400

USUALLY FOUND "IN THE CLUB" THIS AMERICAN RAPPER, ACTOR AND ENTREPRENEUR FLEXED HIS POWER AT A 2022 MAJOR SPORTS EVENT WHO IS HE

50 CENT

SUPERBOWL HALF-TIME SHOW 2022


400

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO HOST AN AMERICAN TELEVISION SERIES 

NAT KING COLE


400

FIRST AMERICAN SLAVE WOMAN TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

500

SERVING ON PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN'S COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, SHE WAAS THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO GET A PH.D. IN ECONOMICS AND SECOND BLACK WOMAN TO GET A PH.D. 

SADIE ALEXANDER

500

"A CHANGE IS GONNA COME"

SAM COOKE 

500

WHAT YEAR WAS THURGOOD MARSHALL APPOINTED TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

1967


500

THIS 2013 BIOLOGICAL DRAMA IS BASED ON THE 1853 SLAVE MEMOIRS KIDNAPPED AS A FREE MAN AND SOLD INTO SLAVERY  

12 YEARS A SLAVE

500

THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN'S CELLS HAVE BEEN AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH IN CANCER

HENRIETTA LACKS

 

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