Women in Black History
She was the first woman in space
Mae Jemison
He often used his writing to discuss themes that appeared in his mother's letters to him.
Langston Hughes
Period of artistic revival for African Americans
Harlem Renaissance
synonym of infer
Extrapolate
Madam C.J. Walker the first AA millionaire started as a hairdresser.
the first AA millionaire
one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist
Katherine Johnson
Believed that African Americans could progress through education and entrepreneurship
Booker T. Washington
This former plantation became the site of a college for African Americans
Tuskegee Institute
Discombobulate
One of the leading AA scientists George Washington Carver encouraged farmers to produce alternative crops.
One of the leading AA scientists
The first African American to publish a book of poetry
Phillis Wheatley
First AA to earn a PhD from Harvard
W.E.B. Dubois
Event in which tens of thousands of African Americans moved from the South for better opportunity and equality
The Great Migration
antonym of harmonious
Black History Month established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson is celebrated every February.
established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson
Co-founder of the National Women's Caucus
Shirley Chisholm
He represented the Browns in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954
Thurgood Marshall
Redlining
antonym of uninformative
Didacticism
Many entertainers have been inspired by Scott Joplin the King of Ragtime
the King of Ragtime
Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Is considered the first AA sonnet writer
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A civil rights organization founded to promote justice for African Americans
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
antonym of untrue or unreal appearance
Verisimilitude
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first AA person to win an Oscar for her work in Gone With the Wind.
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