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He was the first African american male to win an individual gold medal during the 1924 summer Olympics in Paris by winning the long jump event .
Who is DeHart Hubbart
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He was a NASA astronaut, and the first African-American in space
Who is Guion Bluford
100
was a African-American revolution socialist organization active in the U.S. from 1966 until 1982
Who is Black Panthers
100
She is an African-American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and and T.V. shows spanning more than fifty years.
Who is Maya Angelou
100
he is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
Who is Jesse Jackson
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She is the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion
Who is Gabby Douglas
200
He was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut
Who is Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
200
He is an African-American social activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Who is Julian Bond
200
He was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic
Who is James Baldwin
200
he was an American, lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and advocate for the civil rights of African Americans. He was the first African-American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a Federal judge, and as a Federal appellate judge.
Who is William H. Hastie
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She is the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics
Who is Dominique Dawes
300
She became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12,1992
Who is Mae Jemison
300
was a Civil Rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Who is James Farmer
300
She is an African-American writer commentator, activist and educator. She is currently a distinguished professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Who is Nikki Giovanni
300
she is an American feminist politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first and to date only African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator in an election, and the first and to date only female Senator from Illinois.
Who is Carlos Mosety Braun
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she is the first African-American woman to win an Olympic medal
Who is Alice Coachman
400
he was a physicist and NASA astronaut, he died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger mission
Who is Ronald McNair
400
She is an African-American political activist, scholar, and author, and had an involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Angela Davis
400
she was an African-American author who became the first African-American woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel
Who is Ann Lane Petry
400
he was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, who in 1975 became the first black American to reach the rank of four-star general.
Who is Daniel James, Jr.
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He was crowned his achievement with Olympic gold at the London games in July 1908
Who is John Taylor
500
He is a former astronaut. On February 9, 1995 he became the first African-American to perform a spacewalk during the second of his two space shuttle flights
Who is Bernard Anthony Harris
500
He founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
Who is Marcus Garvey
500
She was an African-American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
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is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served the Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from the 5th district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Who is Andrew Young