Black History Month 2023

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  1. 4. Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go where?
  2. 5. In what month was Frederick Douglass born?
  3. 6. What is the last name of the first African American woman elected to Congress?
  4. 10. Before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama served as a U.S. senator of which Midwestern state?
  5. 11. What is the last name of the first African American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature?
  6. 12. In what business did the first “sit-in” occur at a segregated lunch counter?
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  1. 1. ________ Airmen is the nickname for the all Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps which escorted Allied Bombers through European airspace on 1,578 mission during World War II
  2. 2. What is the acronym for America's oldest and largest civil rights organization?
  3. 3. The Omaha ____ is the only remaining African-American newspaper in Omaha
  4. 4. What was Rosa Parks’ occupation at the time of her historic bus incident?
  5. 5. Who was the first president to recognize Black History Month?
  6. 7. What is the last name of the Virginia slave who mailed himself to freedom in 1849?
  7. 8. What is the acronym for the group that launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
  8. 9. Which U.S. president signed the Emancipation Act?
  9. 11. ___ once said, "Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."