Black History 2023

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  1. 3. He was a member of the inaugural class of inductees to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.
  2. 6. The first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor.
  3. 8. found Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Now Tuskegee University) in 1881 and the National Negro Business League two decades later.
  4. 9. “Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
  5. 12. refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus
  6. 13. a slave and social activist who served several masters before suing for his freedom. His case made it to the Supreme Court (Dred Scott v. Sandford) prior to the American Civil War.
  7. 15. Started "The crisis" in 1910
  8. 16. “by any means necessary”
  9. 18. I know why the caged bird sings
  10. 19. the first Black commander of an integrated fighter wing
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  1. 1. The first person of African descent to have her work published.
  2. 2. Found the first Black Women suffrage group
  3. 4. First Black president
  4. 5. First Black woman in motion pictures
  5. 7. She wrote "Their eyes were watching God"
  6. 10. the first African American to earn a bachelor's degree and study crop rotation/conditions.
  7. 11. credited with conducting upward of 300 enslaved people along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada.
  8. 14. He was the first African-American Secretary of State.
  9. 17. Founder of UNIA
  10. 20. Helped the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965.