Black People who change the world

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  1. 5. an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization
  2. 6. Civil right leader
  3. 8. Made underground tunnels
  4. 12. Refused to move to the back
  5. 13. she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire.
  6. 16. one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century
  7. 18. the first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions
  8. 19. Made the traffic light
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  1. 1. First black female author to have a play on broad way
  2. 2. an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. document
  3. 3. the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license
  4. 4. Civil Rights Activist. At the tender age of six
  5. 7. the only black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open
  6. 9. became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet.
  7. 10. an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African
  8. 11. First black president
  9. 14. an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems
  10. 15. is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil war
  11. 17. the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal
  12. 18. He organized temples; founded a newspaper; and led Temple No. 7 in New York City's Harlem