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First professional African American sculptor
Who is Edmonia Lewis?
First black to have a National Monument in his honor
Who is Martin Luther King?
Father of black History
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
First African American to win all around gold in gymnastics
Gabby Douglass
Kamala Harris was elected from this state
What is California?
First black female in the US to have a commercial license
Who is Willa Brown?
Famous sit in started from this college began the Woolworth sit ins in the 1960's
What is North Carolina A&T?
Booker T. Washington's middle name
What is Taliafero?
Founder of the Negro baseball league
Who is Rube Foster?
Made 1841 law decreeing that black and white mill workers could not look out the same window
What is South Carolina?
Current chairman of Microsoft
Who is John W. Thompson?
First southern city to integrated lunch counters
What is San Antonio?
First black professor at at predominantly white college
Who is Charles Reason?
First black in Major League Baseball
Who is Moses Fleetwood Walker?
1784 Connecticut law stated no one could be held in slavery after they were this age
What is Twenty Five?
First self made female millionaire in the US
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
Duo protested US racism at the 1968 olympics by giving the black power salute during the medals ceremony
Who is John Carlos and Tommie Smith?
First African American Secretary of Education
Who is Rod Paige?
First ever Kentucky Derby winner
Who is Oliver Lewis?
Julian Bond's birthplace
What is Tennessee?
Four female mathematicians at NASA
What is Hidden Figures?
1965 beatings of civil rights marchers on the bridge in Selma, AL known as
What is Bloody Sunday?
First Historically Black University in the US
What is Wilberforce?
First African American in the NFL
Who is Fritz Pollard?
First law to allow interracial marriage by repealing the law against it
What is Pennsylvania?