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On June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month, this rapper, singer, and songwriter came out publicly as gay on Twitter
Who is Lil Nas X
She is the first Black, first South Asian American and first woman Vice President of the United States
Who is Vice President Kamala Harris
This is the instrument that Jimi Hendrix was famous for playing
What is a guitar
One of the most recent and significant black leaders of our time is none other than the 44th US president
Who is Barack Obama
American gay liberation activist and drag queen- she was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969
Who is Marsha P. Johnson
She created specialized hair products for African American hair care and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
Michael Jackson and his family were a part of this music group founded in 1965
What is The Jackson 5
The celebration of Black History Month was created in 1926 by this man, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher
Who is Carter G. Woodson
She made history in November 2017 by becoming the first openly elected transgender woman elected to public office in the U.S.
Andrea Jenkins
An American attorney and author who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Who is Michelle Obama
This author is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences
Who is Maya Angelou
the first African-American person to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960
Who is Ruby Bridges
This author is is perhaps best known for his 1955 collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son," and his groundbreaking 1956 novel, "Giovanni's Room," which depicts themes of homosexuality and bisexuality
Who was James Baldwin
One of the first physicians to perform open-heart surgery in the United States- he founded a hospital with an interracial staff
Who is Daniel Hale Williams
This blind American musician became one of the most creative musical figures of the 20th century with hits like "My Cherie Amour," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "Superstition."
Who is Stevie Wonder
This was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
What was the Montgomery bus boycott
She was the first African American lesbian elected to the Texas Senate in 1966, and the first woman and first African American elected to Congress from Texas in 1972
Who was Barbara Jordan
the first black woman to fly an airplane- she taught herself French and moved to France, earning her license from Caudron Brother's School in just seven months
Who was Bessie Coleman
He was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century.
Who was James Arthur Baldwin
She was first American to get the Covid-19 vaccine outside of trials
Sandra Lindsay