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- 2. This woman ran for U.S. Senate in 1992 - not only defeating a strong opponent but becoming the first ADOS woman to be elected a U.S. Senator
- 4. One of the greatest scholars in American history; he was the first American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS) to earn a PHD; he also co-founded the NAACP in 1909
- 7. One of the greatest statesman in American history; publishing several books, as well as founding and contributing to several abolitionist newspapers
- 8. This Amendment nominally abolishe; though the U.S. Federal and state governments found ways to entrap American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS)in convict-leasing (slavery by another name)
- 9. This man was assassinated at the height of the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee; advocated for civil rights, reparations, and protested American wars overseas
- 14. One of the most prominent figures in the Civil Rights movement; involved in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; a white doctor gave her a hysterectomy without her consent when she went in to have a tumor removed
- 16. The FBI illegally raided the home of and murdered this Black Panther Part member because of how he positively influenced the Black Community
- 18. He was one of the greatest inventors in American history, discovering over 300 hundred uses for peanuts including chili sauce, shampoo, shaving cream and glue
- 19. Founder of what started out as Black History Week, which is now nationally recognized as Black History Month
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- 1. A black organization founded in the 60s; developing food programs in black neighborhoods to help not only feed, but to provide free and quality education to black children
- 3. This woman sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts by refusing to give up her seat to a white person; causing the collapse of the bus system in Alabama in 1956, when the Supreme Court declared that the Alabama laws of segregated buses were unconstitutional
- 5. Federal, state, and local policies put in place to severely lower home values in black neighborhoods
- 6. Famous for his autobiography "Up From Slavery", he helped found one of the first HBCUs in America, Tuskegee Institute
- 10. This former slave led one of the most brutal and successful slave revolts in American history; this even cause new laws, making it illegal to teach ADOS how to read, write, and made it illegal for them to attend church without white people in attendance
- 11. A prominent female journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a founder of the NAACP,she dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for Black American's equality—especially that of women
- 12. One of the most prominent figures in the Civil Rights Movement and in the Nation of Islam; advocated for American Descendent of Slavery rights in America "by any means necessary"
- 13. After escaping slavery herself, she made countless perilous journeys to rescue hundreds of additional slaves; the journey was known as the Under Ground Railroad
- 15. Famous for her "Ain't I A Woman?" speech, comparing the white woman's struggle with that of the black woman
- 17. In this Supreme Court decision, the U.S. government codified that American Descendent of Slavery (ADOS) have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect"