Early Black American History (1639-1900)

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  1. 4. Activist and businessman who organized and led thousands of formerly enslaved Black Americans to settle Kansas, known as Exodusters in 1879
  2. 9. First Black American United States Senator
  3. 10. Abolitionist, Civil Rights activist, Women's Rights activist, and advocate for the Temperance Movement
  4. 11. First person martyred in the Boston Massacre leading to the American Revolution
  5. 14. First Black college president, president of Wilberforce University in Ohio
  6. 16. Editor, organizer, suffragist and founder of the Woman's Era, the first newspaper by and for African-American women
  7. 18. Abolitionist who escaped slavery and came to Philadelphia, led the Underground Railroad
  8. 21. First Black Governor of any US state (Louisiana)
  9. 24. Entrepreneur and philanthropist, made cosmetics and hair products for Black women
  10. 26. Influential sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist
  11. 27. Investigative journalist and early Civil Rights leader, documented lynchings throughout the 1890s
  12. 28. First Black member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  13. 29. Influential Black American theorist and leader of the 19th Century
  14. 30. First Black Billionaire in the South, became rich after investing in Memphis
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  1. 1. Enslaved man who led a mutiny on the Amistad slave ship, leading to a Supreme Court case which ruled in favor of the enslaved Africans who rebelled on the ship
  2. 2. US Army regiment of Black servicemen
  3. 3. United States Senator for Mississippi who was born enslaved and became the first Black American to serve his full term to the Senate
  4. 5. Philadelphia businessman who used his wealth to support abolitionism and the success of Black Americans
  5. 6. Planned a slave revolt in South Carolina but was caught and punished
  6. 7. Bishop founder of AME and abolitionist in Philadelphia, co-founded the Free African Society with Absalom Jones
  7. 8. Influential Black American leader and educator, helped found and lead the Tuskegee Institute
  8. 12. Enslaved Black man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and the freedom of his family, leading to a significant Supreme Court ruling
  9. 13. Texas union organizer and chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
  10. 15. Leader of the Southampton Insurrection slave revolt in modern day Virginia
  11. 17. Trade unionist, founder of Colored National Labor Union
  12. 19. Civil War hero who freed himself for slavery and fought for the Union
  13. 20. Abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, co-founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen
  14. 22. Leader of the 1811 German Coast Uprising slave revolt in modern day Louisiana
  15. 23. Businessman, lawyer, politician, and abolitionist, born free in Philadelphia
  16. 25. Wrote A Voice from the South, one of the first writings of Black Feminist theories