Black History

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First US Poet Laureate

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Maya Angelou

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First to win the Pulitzer fro Poetry

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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First to win the Pulitzer for Literature

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Alice Walker

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First to win the Nobel for Literature

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Toni Morrison

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First to win the Nobel Peace Prize

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Ralph Bunche

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First Singer at the Metropolitan Opera

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Marian Anderson

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First Miss America

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Vanessa Williams

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First Grammy Winner

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Harry Belafonte

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First Female Grammy winner

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Ella Fitzgerald

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First US Ambassador to the UN

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Andrew Young

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First Supreme Court Justice

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Thurgood Marshall

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First Surgeon General

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Jocelyn Elders

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First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Colin Powell

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First Congresswoman

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Shirley Chisholm

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First Woman Senator

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Carol Mosley-Braun

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First to reach the North Pole

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Matthew Henson

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First in Space

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Leon Bluford, Jr.

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First female in space

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Mae Jemeson

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First starring role on TV

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Diahann Carroll (for Julia)

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First coach in any professional sport

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Bill Russell

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First MLB coach

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Frank Robinson

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First All-American athlete

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Paul Robeson

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First Heavyweight boxing champ

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Jack Johnson

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First Masters golf champion

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Tiger Woods

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First Wimbleton winner

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Althea Gibson

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First MLB player (19th century)

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Moses Fleetwood Walker

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First MLB player (20th century)

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Jackie Robinson

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First AL baseball player

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Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton

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First NBA player

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Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton

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First patent holder (for corn harvester)

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Henry Blair

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First Mayor of Cleveland

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Carl Stokes

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First Mayor of Chicago

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Harold Washington

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First Mayor of NYC

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David Dinkins

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First Mayor of LA

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Tom Bradley

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First Mayor of Detroit (5 times)

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Coleman Young

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First female mayor of Washington, DC

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Sharon Pratt Kelly

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First Mayor of Atlanta

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Maynard Jackson

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First to enroll at the University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

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First Flying Squadron

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Tuskegee Airmen

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Man killed at Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

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Female preacher, abolitionist, and writer

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Sojourner Truth

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Orator and former slave

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Frederick Douglas

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Preacher who led 1831 insurrection against slavery

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Nat Turner

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Underground railroad "conductor"

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Harriet Tubman

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Male Tennis Champion

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Peter Bailey

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Playwright born in Harlem 1924

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James Baldwin

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"One O'clock Jump" band leader

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Count Basie

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President of SCLC after MLK

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Ralph Abernathy

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Founder of Ebony and Jet

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John Johnson

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Former Urban League head and Clinton advisor

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Vernon Jordan

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Founder of Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T Washington

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Peanut cultivator

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George Washington Carver

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Aid in developing blood banks

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Charles Drew

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Voice of Darth Vader

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James Earl Jones

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Rat Pack member

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Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus

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Maxine Waters

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Texas Congresswoman 1972-78

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Barbara Jordan

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Female figure skater

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Debi Thomas

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Miss America, 1990

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Debbye Turner

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Rainbow Coalition leader

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Jesse Jackson

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OJ defense attorney

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Johnie Cochran

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Prosecutor at OJ trial

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Christopher Darden

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CNN Washinton anchor

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Bernard Shaw

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Founder of American Dance Theatre

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Alvin Ailey

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Soprano at Metropolitan Opera 1976-85

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Leontyne Price

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NAACP founder 1909

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WEB DuBois

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NAACP representative murdered in Mississippi 1965

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Medgar Evers

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Medal awarded by NAACP

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Spingarn Medal

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Fund founded at the Tuskegee Institute 1944

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United Negro College Fund

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Nationalist leader assassinated in 1965

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Malcolm X

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Nation of Islam leader

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Louis Farrakhan

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seal's party, founded 1966

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Black Panthers

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Black Panthers leader and newspaper editor

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Eldridge Cleaver

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He coined the term "black power"

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Adam Clayton Powell

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City of 1955 bus boycott

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Montgomery

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Woman who initiated the boycott

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Rosa Parks

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GW Bush's National Security Advisor

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Condoleezza Rice

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City high school integrated 1956

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Little Rock Central High

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University integrated in 1962

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University of Alabama