Historical Figures

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  1. 3. Journalist and co-founder of the NAACP
  2. 4. Historian who originated Black History Month in 1926
  3. 6. African American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion
  4. 7. NASA's first Black women engineer
  5. 9. She was the first African American women to travel to space
  6. 10. Inventor of the electric railway and an electric roller coaster called the Figure Eight
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  1. 1. First Black woman elected to the US congress and the first Black woman to run for president of the US
  2. 2. He was the first African-American astronaut in space
  3. 3. She is known for developing the mathematical model for the Global Positioning System (GPS)
  4. 5. February was the month chosen due to the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and this historical figure
  5. 8. Leader who started the Civil Rights movement
  6. 9. NASA mathematician who calculated orbital mechanics for John Glenn's orbit