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54 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first African American to earn a PhD in science?
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Edward Alexander Bouchet
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Which African American astronomer invented the first striking clock?
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Benjamin Banneker
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who was the first african american woman math teacher?
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Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
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Who was the first African American doctor to perform an open-heart surgery?
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
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Who was the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences?
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David Blackwell
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What was the name of the first school to be integrated? Where was it located?
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Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas
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What year was the first Historically Black University established?
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1837
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Who was first African American teacher?
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Marie Tarver
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Who was the first African american woman to receive a Bachelor's Degree?
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Mary Jane Patterson
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Who is America's first great African American speaker?
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Fredrick Douglas
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Who was the first African American chemist?
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George Washington Carver
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What African American produced,created,and hosted The Cosby show and Fat Albert
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Bill Cosby
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What Actress Received An Oscar In 1940 For The Film Gone With The Wind
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Hattie McDaniel
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What Actress Won An Award For Best Actress/Actor
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Halle Berry
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What American actor, dancer, and choreographer was best known for his portrayal of dancer Leroy Johnson in the 1980 film 'Fame'?
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Gene Anthony Ray
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Who was known as the "Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance”?
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Katherine Dunham
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Who was the first African American man to be signed to a NBA team?
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Nat "SweetWater" Clifton
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Who became the first African American to play in and win Wimbledon and the United States national tennis championship?
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Althea Gibson
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Who won the Masters golf tournament in 1997?
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Tiger Woods
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Who was the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team?
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Chuck Cooper
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What All-American Halfback and 1961 Heisman Trophy winner would go on to win MVP title in both the Cotton Bowl and the Liberty Bowl, and was inducted into the College Football Hall Of Fame in 1979?
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Ernie Davis
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This comedian is very well known for the following phrase: "Alright, alright, alright. You goin' to learn today"
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Kevin Hart
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Who regained the WBA title from Spinks seven months later in a decision, becoming the first boxer to win the heavyweight championship three times?
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Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay)
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What movie was produced in 1985 by Steven Spielberg and stars Danny Glover and Magaret Avery
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The Color Purple
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Who was the first African American player on a major league baseball team?
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Jackie Robinson
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What was the first African American Published poetry book?
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Phillis Wheatly
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Who was the first African American representative?
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U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne
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What was the first African American to become President?
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Barack Obama
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Who was the first black WOMAN federal judge?
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Constance Baker Motley
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Who was the first NBA player?
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Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton
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The first African American to hold a patent ?
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Thomas L Jennings
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Who was the frist african American Lawyer?
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Moses Wenslydale Moore
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Who was the first African American to win an Oscar?
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Hattie McDaniel
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Who was the first African American to graduate from Harvard?
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Dr. David J. Peck
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Who was the first African American to Play in the NFL?
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Charles Follis
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who invented the super soaker
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lonnie johnson
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Who was the first African American to invent the traffic signal?
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garrett morgan
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Who was the first African American to attend a all white school?
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Ruby Bridges
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Who was the first black to invent the gas mask?
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Garrett Morgan
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First African Americans to own a major metropolitan newspaper
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Robert C. and Nancy Hick Maynard
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Who was the first African American astronaut?
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Mae Jemison
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Who was the first African American to win a Grammy?
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Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
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Who was the first black WOMAN billionaire?
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Oprah Winfrey
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Who was the first black person apart of a major league baseball team ?
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Jackie Robinson
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Who was the first black golf champion?
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Tiger Woods
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Who was the first African American Diplomat?
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Ebenezer D. Bassett
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Who was the first black heavyweight boxin champion?
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Jack Jackson
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Who was the first black millionaire?
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Madame C.J Walker
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who invented the water closet
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lewis howard latimer
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who invented the sharpener
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john lee love
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First African-American woman to become a General in the U.S. military.
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HAZEL W. WINIFRED -
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The bureau's main focus was to provide food and medical care, to help the freedmen to resettle, to ensure justice for the freedmen, to manage abandoned or confiscated property, to regulate labor, and to establish schools.
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What was the Freedmen Bureau Bill?
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This system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between Blacks and Whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America
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What is the Jim Crow Law
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Name the professor that founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Booker T. Washington
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