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  1. 2. This woman ran for U.S. Senate in 1992 - not only defeating a strong opponent but becoming the first ADOS woman to be elected a U.S. Senator
  2. 4. One of the greatest scholars in American history; he was the first American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS) to earn a PHD; he also co-founded the NAACP in 1909
  3. 7. One of the greatest statesman in American history; publishing several books, as well as founding and contributing to several abolitionist newspapers
  4. 8. This Amendment nominally abolishe; though the U.S. Federal and state governments found ways to entrap American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS)in convict-leasing (slavery by another name)
  5. 9. This man was assassinated at the height of the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee; advocated for civil rights, reparations, and protested American wars overseas
  6. 14. One of the most prominent figures in the Civil Rights movement; involved in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; a white doctor gave her a hysterectomy without her consent when she went in to have a tumor removed
  7. 16. The FBI illegally raided the home of and murdered this Black Panther Part member because of how he positively influenced the Black Community
  8. 18. He was one of the greatest inventors in American history, discovering over 300 hundred uses for peanuts including chili sauce, shampoo, shaving cream and glue
  9. 19. Founder of what started out as Black History Week, which is now nationally recognized as Black History Month
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  1. 1. A black organization founded in the 60s; developing food programs in black neighborhoods to help not only feed, but to provide free and quality education to black children
  2. 3. This woman sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts by refusing to give up her seat to a white person; causing the collapse of the bus system in Alabama in 1956, when the Supreme Court declared that the Alabama laws of segregated buses were unconstitutional
  3. 5. Federal, state, and local policies put in place to severely lower home values in black neighborhoods
  4. 6. Famous for his autobiography "Up From Slavery", he helped found one of the first HBCUs in America, Tuskegee Institute
  5. 10. This former slave led one of the most brutal and successful slave revolts in American history; this even cause new laws, making it illegal to teach ADOS how to read, write, and made it illegal for them to attend church without white people in attendance
  6. 11. A prominent female journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a founder of the NAACP,she dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for Black American's equality—especially that of women
  7. 12. One of the most prominent figures in the Civil Rights Movement and in the Nation of Islam; advocated for American Descendent of Slavery rights in America "by any means necessary"
  8. 13. After escaping slavery herself, she made countless perilous journeys to rescue hundreds of additional slaves; the journey was known as the Under Ground Railroad
  9. 15. Famous for her "Ain't I A Woman?" speech, comparing the white woman's struggle with that of the black woman
  10. 17. In this Supreme Court decision, the U.S. government codified that American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS) have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect"