Micah's Black History #7

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  1. 4. Worked as a cook, decided they would use their culinary talents to feed and fund the resistance, which came to be known as the Montgomery bus boycott. This person organized women to form the Club From Nowhere, a clandestine group that prepared savory meals (fried chicken sandwiches, fried fish, pork chops, greens, lima beans) and baked goods (peach pie, poundcakes) and sold them out of their homes, in local establishments and at protest meetings.
  2. 5. Was the first African American woman to formally enter the medical profession.
  3. 7. Worked on experiments on surgical shock and blue baby syndrome
  4. 9. Eleanora Fagan professionally known as _________ ________, was an African American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, she had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing.(April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959) was handcuffed to her hospital bed while dying! Harry Anslinger, the first FBI director, notorious for his hatred of Black people, made it his job to destroy her, because she refused to stop singing the song "Strange Fruit." Under his order the hospital was ordered to stop giving her medical attention and she died within days.
  5. 10. Was the founding dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Sullivan was also the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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  1. 1. Became the first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman's Civil Rights Leadership Award for helping raise the image of blacks. Attended Yale University.
  2. 2. Was the first doctor to successfully perform open-heart surgery.
  3. 3. In 1931, the sisters founded Carr’s Beach and Sparrow’s Beach which operaElizabeth _____ and Florence_____ Sparrow were daughters of a Black entrepreneur Frederick _______, who bought 180 acres on the Chesapeake Bay and gave some of the land to his four daughters. Elizabeth and Mary Sparrow decided to use the land to create beaches fted as separate entities but were side-by-side and run separately by the two sisters.
  4. 6. Developed anticancer drugs.
  5. 8. On November 26, 1962, this inventor patented a helicopter named the Lockheed Model 186 (XH-51). It was a compound experimental helicopter, and only 3 units were built.