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She was the first African American woman to become a pilot
Who was Bessie Coleman?
She wanted to be an astronaut.
Who was Mae Jemison?
He was the first Black American to go to outer space.
Who was Guion Bluford?
He was the fastest cyclist in the world in 1899.
Who was Major Taylor?
She read a poem at the president's inauguration.
Who was Maya Angelou?
The game he played the game was baseball.
What game did Jackie Robinson play?
In this career, people share information by writing in the newspaper, like Ida B Wells.
What is a journalist?
She went on September 12, 1992, and stayed for 8 days.
When and for how long did Mae Jemison go to space?
She would speak only when reading books out loud.
When would Maya Angelou speak, after she was attacked?
A style of singing in which the singer improvises a tune and uses made up words, like Ella Fitzgerald often did
What is scat singing?
The place she worked was NASA, as a computer.
Where did Katherine Johnson work?
He played for two cities: the Kansas City Monarchs, and the Brooklyn Dodgers in New York.
Where did Jackie Robinson play baseball?
The places he worked were on farms, in his town collecting garbage, and in coal mines when he was a teen.
Where did Carter Woodson work before going to high school?
She went to school in France
Where did Bessie Coleman go to flight school?
Harvard University
Where did Carter G Woodson and W.E.B. DuBois get their PhD's?
He read the newspaper to his friends and family.
How did Carter Woodson help people learn about current events?
She used geometry to calculate the way for spaceships to travel.
How did Katherine Johnson help astronauts?
He invented a carbon filament that would not burn out so fast.
How did Lewis Latimer improve Edison's light bulb?
She kept trying to be an astronaut because she and her parents believed in her.
Why did Mae Jemison keep trying to be an astronaut?
She lost a lot of her hair and wanted to care for her hair and scalp better
Why did Madam C. J. Walker invent her own hair care products?
She was very good with math and other skills at a young age.
Why did Katherine Johnson skip grades in school?
After her friend was killed, she wanted the world to know about violence against African Americans in the United States
Why did Ida B. Wells write in newspapers about violence against African Americans?
He wanted people to learn about Black History and to prove his professor was wrong
Why did Carter G. Woodson invent Black History Month?