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- 4. a Black trans woman and activist, was at the forefront of fighting for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 70s (including partaking in the resistance at Stonewall).
- 5. /clue King of Pop
- 8. King is usually credited for the March on Washington in August 1963. But it was THis man who organized and strategized in the shadows.
- 9. /clue the first woman self-made millionaire
- 10. American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
- 12. /clue-inspirin people with inspiring history
- 13. /clue You might know her as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. She was also a spy.
- 14. /clue have been inspired to become a lawyer after pulling a prank in high school.
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- 1. In 1894 he became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College, where he studied botany and fungal diseases, and later earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, Booker T. Washington offered him a teaching position at Tuskegee Institute, a college for African Americans.
- 2. /clue track-and-field athlete who set a world record in the long jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
- 3. Had no idea that the bold act she committed in 1960 would set off a chain reaction leading to the integration of schools in the South. She was just 6 years old when she became the first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the height of desegregation.
- 6. /clue I have a dream
- 7. /clue sheclueshe did not give up her seat on the bus.
- 11. /clue began working with local political organizations and in 1964 won a seat on the New York state legislature, representing her Brooklyn neighborhood.