Who was the lawyer who won the 1954 case Brown vs.Board of Education which abolished school segregation by race and in 1967 was appointed to the Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall.
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What musician opened up at the Cotton Club in Harlem and launched his career as one of the most influential artists in music history in the jazz genre?
Who is Duke Ellington.
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Who is a retired three time World Heavyweight Champion and can "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"?
What is Muhammad Ali.
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Who was the first African American women to be elected to the US Congress?
Who is Shirley Chisolm.
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Who is the first African American woman to travel in space, speaks three languages, and has a doctorate deegrea from Cornell University?
Who is Dr. Mae Jamison.
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Who broke numerous records at the the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin and became the first athlete to win four gold medals?
Who is Jesse Owens.
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Who was the first African American to win a Novel Peace Prize for his mediation work in Palestine concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict in the 1940's?
Who is Dr. Ralph Bunche.
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Who was the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States.She lived and practiced medicine on Beacon Hill in Boston.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler.
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Who was the first African American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy when competing for Syracuse University?
Who is Ernie Davis?
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Who was a prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African-Americans in the first half of the 20th century. He was laveled "The Father of Pan-Africanism."
What is William E. B. DuBois.
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What Quaker ship captain of Native American and African background established the first integrated school in Massachusetts?
Who is Paul Cuffee.
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Who was the first basketball player to score 100 points on a single game and the first in the NBA to score 30,000 points?
Who is Wilt Chamberlin.
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Who is the first African-American man elected to a state Supreme Court?
Who is Joseph W. Hatchett.
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Who was not only the first African American surgeon but is also attributed with performing the first successful open heart surgery in the 19th century?
Who is Dr. Danial Hale Williams.
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Who was the first African American ever to pay in the US Open as well as to win a Gran Slam event?