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100

She was the first woman in space

Mae Jemison

100

He often used his writing to discuss themes that appeared in his mother's letters to him.

Langston Hughes

100

Period of artistic revival for African Americans

Harlem Renaissance

100

synonym of infer

Extrapolate

100

Madam C.J. Walker the first AA millionaire started as a hairdresser.

the first AA millionaire

200

one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist

Katherine Johnson

200

Believed that African Americans could progress through education and entrepreneurship

Booker T. Washington

200

This former plantation became the site of a college for African Americans

Tuskegee Institute

200
antonym of coherent

Discombobulate

200

One of the leading AA scientists George Washington Carver encouraged farmers to produce alternative crops.

One of the leading AA scientists

300

The first African American to publish a book of poetry

Phillis Wheatley

300

First AA to earn a PhD from Harvard

W.E.B. Dubois

300

Event in which tens of thousands of African Americans moved from the South for better opportunity and equality

The Great Migration

300

antonym of harmonious

Acrimonious
300

Black History Month established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson is celebrated every February.

established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson

400

Co-founder of the National Women's Caucus

Shirley Chisholm

400

He represented the Browns in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954

Thurgood Marshall

400
A discriminatory practice which results in food deserts, poor healthcare, and poor education for certain populations.

Redlining

400

antonym of uninformative

Didacticism

400

Many entertainers have been inspired by Scott Joplin the King of Ragtime

the King of Ragtime

500

Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

500

Is considered the first AA sonnet writer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

500

A civil rights organization founded to promote justice for African Americans

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

500

antonym of untrue or unreal appearance

Verisimilitude

500

In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first AA person to win an Oscar for her work in Gone With the Wind.

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