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30 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first African American to graduate from College
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Alexander Twilight who graduated from Middlebury College
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What was the name of the first African American newspaper?
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Freedom's Journal
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Who was the first African American hero for World War II?
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Dori Miller
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Who was the first African American to win an Emmy Award?
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Harry Belafonte
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Who was the first African American woman to recieve a pilot's license?
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Bessie Coleman
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Who was the first African American inducted into the National Football League
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Marion Motley
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Who was the first doctor to perform a successful open heart surgery?
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
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Who was the first black woman inducted into the Rock In Roll Hall of Fame?
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Aretha Franklin
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Who is the composer of the Black National Anthem and what is it called?
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson and he is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University
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Who wrote the play "A Raisin in the Sun?"
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Which ammendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
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15th Ammendment
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Abramham Lincoln abolished slavery with what document?
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The Emancipation January 1, 1863
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The Selma to Montgomery march happened in what year?
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1965
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What was the original name for the Harlem Renaissance?
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The New Negro Movement
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Who was the inventor from Jackson, Tennessee who developed a mechanism to raise and lower the top on cars?
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James A Jones
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Who invented the gas mask?
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Garrett Augustus Morgan
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Who discovered a process for hair straightening?
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Madam C.J. Walker
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Who got a patent for the Stop Sign?
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Garett Augustus Morgan
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Who invented the adding machine?
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Selby J. Davidson
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What did Sarah Boone invent?
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The ironing board
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Who discovered aprocess for preserving blood and what university was he working at?
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Dr. Charles Drew and he was working at Columbia Universitiy
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Who wrote the autobiography "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race Inheritance"
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Barack Obama
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What does NAACP stand for?
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National Association for the Advancement Colored People
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Who was the first person to perform a successful oopen-heart operation?
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Dr. Daniel Williams
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Who wrote the playwright :The Chip Woman's Fortune"
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Willis Richardson
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Who is Rosa Louise McCauley?
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Rosa Parks born in 1913 in Tuskegee Al
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Who was the first African American to have a national monument dedicated to him?
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George Washington Carver
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Who was the first person to reach the top ranks of professional tennis?
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Althea Gibson
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Who shot Medgar Evers?
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Byron De La Beckwith
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Who is often referred to as "The Princess of Black Poetry"?
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Nikki Giovanni
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