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26 Cards in this Set

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Marian Wright Edelman
educator, lawyer, and children's rights activist
Tom Bradley
first black mayor of LA
James Van Der Zee
first black photographer
Naomi Sims
first black super model
Edward Wilburn
first black car designer of the Oldsmobile
Carole Simpson
journalist and first black to be hired on a major tv station
Maya Angelou
first black poet to be an inaugurational poet/her most famous book is called, "I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing"
John Conyers
first black U.S. Representative
Wally Amos
Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies/first black talent agent for the William Morris Agency
Harry Belafonte
black singer, actor, and producer/most famous for his Calypso song
Jan Matzelinger
first black inventor/made shoe machine
Charles Fuller
black playwright/most famous playwright is "A Soldier's Story"
Robert C. Maynard
first black to own a major newspaper
Mae Jemison
first black female astronaut
Maggie Walker
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/first black woman to be a bank president
Carol Braun
first black woman to be on the U.S. Senate
W.C. Handy
Father of the Blues/composer and band leader/known for writing the "Memphis Blues"
Barry Gordy
pro boxer/songwriter of "Motown"
Shelby Steele
educator and scholar/spent his life writing about the true meaning of "black politics"
Jackie Robinson
first black pro baseball player
Daniel "Chappie" James
airforce/the first black 4-star general in the U.S.
Henry Johnson
most famous black soldier to have fought in WWI/sergeant
Joe Clark
educator/tough high school principal/movie was made about his life called "Lean on Me"
Marcelite Harris
first black woman to be in the Air Force/general
Rebecca Cole
first black woman to establish a medical practice in Philedelphia, PA
Clarence Page
first black columnist to be awarded a Pulitzer award