Black History Month

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  1. 3. Langston ______ from Joplin, Missouri was an instrumental figure in the Harlem Renaissance and jazz poetry.
  2. 7. Muhammad Ali was one of the best boxers to ever live and was nicknamed “The ________”.
  3. 8. Marsha P. _________ was a Black LGBT woman who was an important figure in the gay rights movement.
  4. 9. To help Black people travel safely in the early-to-mid 20th-century, Victor H. Green created The _____ Book.
  5. 10. This Georgian state representative was one of the first 13 Freedom Riders, marched with MLK, and got into plenty of “Good Trouble.”
  6. 11. Born in St. Louis in 1928, this author, poet, and civil rights activist wrote the bestselling autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
  7. 13. His written work, such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, influenced both the civil rights and the gay liberation movements of the mid-20th century.
  8. 16. In 1939, Jane Bolin was the first African-American woman to become a ______.
  9. 17. He was a gay Black man who taught MLK on non-violence, organized the March on Washington, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
  10. 21. Fred Hampton was the founder of the _______ Coalition that sought to unite poor Black, white, and Hispanic workers.
  11. 22. He was a revolutionary, a Muslim minister, and a human rights activist until his assassination in 1965.
  12. 25. This Black singer currently has the record for most Grammy wins (32), the latest being the 2023 Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for her 2022 album, Renaissance.
  13. 27. Gloria __________ led the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, negotiated the “Treaty of Cambridge,” and was one of the “Six Negro Women Fighters for Freedom”.
  14. 29. George Washington Carver was a world-renowned botanist famous for finding 300 uses for this legume.
  15. 30. Isabella Bomfree was born enslaved in 1797 and, once freed, traveled the nation to challenge people’s beliefs on race and gender while using this name.
  16. 32. Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his “I Have a _____” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
  17. 33. Despite enduring segregation and racist practices in the military, nothing could stop General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and his ________ Airmen from flying combat missions during WWII.
  18. 34. Ida B. ____ was an investigative journalist who exposed the sinister truths about mob violence and lynchings during the late 19th-century and early 20th-century.
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  1. 1. Shirley ______ was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and the first Black American to run for president.
  2. 2. Sparking a Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, this woman stood up to segregation by sitting down.
  3. 4. With top hit songs like “Ride Wit’ Me” and “Country Grammar," this Black American rapper, singer, and actor is considered a St. Louis music icon
  4. 5. Mildred and Richard _______’s interracial marriage helped make interracial marriage legal in all states.
  5. 6. This woman was the first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license and said “the air is the only place free from prejudice.”
  6. 12. This man served two terms as our 44th president from 2008 - 2016.
  7. 14. Actress Hattie _______ was the first Black American to win an Oscar.
  8. 15. Harriet Tubman was a former enslaved woman who served as a Union spy, leader, and conductor of the Underground ___________.
  9. 18. The architect of Brown vs. Board of Education, this man challenged school segregation and went on to be the first Black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  10. 19. William Wells Brown escaped slavery in St. Louis and became America’s first Black _____.
  11. 20. NASA astrophysicists Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan were depicted in this 2016 book and movie.
  12. 21. Jackie _________ broke the “color line” by becoming the first African-American baseball player in Major League Baseball.
  13. 22. This woman is the first African-American woman to travel to space.
  14. 23. This “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll” sold over 100 million music copies, won 12 Grammy’s, and was both the first Black and female artist to be on the cover of Rolling Stones.
  15. 24. W.E.B. __ ____ was an American historian, author of Black Reconstruction in America, activist, and the first sociologist to study African-American society.
  16. 26. Born in 1906 in St. Louis, __________ Baker was the sensational icon of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties.
  17. 28. Madam C.J. ______ was the first American woman to be a self-made millionaire.
  18. 31. The lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston was famously nicknamed “The Man who killed Jim ____”.