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I was the first African American to travel into space?
Who is Guion Stewart Bluford
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This state had the first "sit-in protest" at a segregated lunch counter?
What is North Carolina
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I invented the elevator?
Who is Alexander Miles
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I am the American portrait painter based in New York City, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of Black people, frequently referencing the work of Old Master paintings.
Who is Kehinde Wiley
100
I won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and this was the first time an African American screenwriter won this award.
Who is Jordan Peele
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I was the first Black scientist to be memorialized in a national monument?
George Washington Carver
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In this year racial segregation in the US military was banned?
What is 1948
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I was the first African American medical doctor to receive a medical patent?
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath (invented a laser cataract treatment device in 1986. She was also the first African American to complete a residency in opthalmology and the co-founder of the American Institution for the Prevention of Blindness.)
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I was the first successful black writer-editor in mainstream comics?
Who is Christopher Priest
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I was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
Who is Halle Berry
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I was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
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I organized the League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation?
Who is Philip Randolph
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I filed a patent in 1966 for the first-ever home security system
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
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I witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. I was a singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the French resistance during World War II.
Who is Josephine Baker
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I was the first African American woman to play a lead role on a television drama?
Who is Nichelle Nichols (debuted as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek in 1964).
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I was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Who is Ralph Bunche (for having arranged a cease-fire between Israelis and Arabs during the war which followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.)
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This is one of my most famous speech?
What is "I Have a Dream"
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This engineer developed this mega water gun in his free time while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Who is Lonnie Johnson
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I was inspired as a child by the work of George Washington Carver, who is considered one of the pioneers for home gaming?
Who is Jerry Lawson
400
What year was the first openly transgender man nominated for an Oscar?
What is 2017.
Yance Ford became the first-ever openly transgender man nominated for an Oscar.
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I was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
Who is Misty Copeland
500
I planned a solo walk through Mississippi that ultimately became the March Against Fear?
Who is James Meredith
500
I was the inventor of refrigerated trucks and co-founder of the U.S. Thermo Control Company, later known as Thermo King, a global leader in refrigerated transportation?
Who is Frederick McKinley Jones
500
This was First African American-Owned Video Game Design Company is called what?
What is Videosoft
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I was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
Who is Sidney Porter