Black History Month

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  1. 5. American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only school
  2. 7. American politician; served as the 44th president of the United States
  3. 8. American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
  4. 10. American actor, producer and director with a career spanning over four decades
  5. 11. American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist; a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
  6. 13. American professional boxer and activist; regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time
  7. 15. American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen; one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969
  8. 16. American politician and attorney who is the 49th and previous vice president of the United States; first woman and woman of color Vice President
  9. 17. American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher; prominent leaders in the civil rights movement
  10. 19. American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre; the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer
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  1. 1. American abolitionist and social activist; helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad
  2. 2. the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
  3. 3. American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  4. 4. American professional basketball player; spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers
  5. 6. American artistic gymnast; most decorated American gymnast in history; widely considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time
  6. 9. American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist
  7. 12. Supreme Court's first African-American justice
  8. 14. American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut; the first African-American woman to travel into space
  9. 18. American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement; one of the founders of the NAACP
  10. 19. American Muslim minister and human rights activist; prominent figure during the civil rights movement