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Black inventors
100

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority of poor children live in what neighborhoods 


Rural Areas 

100

an opinion or liking that does not let one be fair

Bias

100

she was the one responsible for inventing the first home security system, during the 1960's

Marie Van Brittan Brown

200

During the state constitutional conventions held in the years ___, did Black and white Americans stand side by side for the first time in political life?

1867

200

when you help fight institutionalized racism, colonization, and white supremacy by blocking or impeding racist people

Accomplice

200

he created a control unit for pacemakers, small devices that help regulate the heartbeat by administering electric stimulation, in 1964

Otis Boykin

300

The Ku Klux Klan targeted local Republican leaders and Black citizens who challenged their white employers, how many Black officials were murdered by the Klan and other white supremacist organizations during the Reconstruction era.

35 officials

300

When someone is open to learning other cultures and traditions from diverse races.

Intercultural Competency

300

Discovered that plasma had a longer shelf life than blood and could be separated for transfusions. His work not only saved thousands during World War II, but it also laid the groundwork for long-term blood preservation and storage techniques that have saved countless lives since, in 1941

Charles Drew

400

who was the man who escaped enslavement and then served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Robert Smalls 

400

when someone is open and includes other rces and imbraces diverse cultures and traditions 

Inclusion

400

In 1989, he put this idea to work, using 65,000 processes to invent the world’s first massively parallel processing supercomputer — able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Philip Emeagwali

500

In 1967, almost a century after Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce served in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction, there was a Massachusetts man who became the first Black senator elected by popular vote. whats his name?

Edward Brooke

500

A term that was commonly used to describe someone non-white a person of color or Indigenous 

BIPOC

500

Created the first “safety hood” to help firefighters navigate smokey buildings, later modifying it to carry its own air supply— making it the world’s first effective gas masks. 

Garrett Morgan

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