Black History Month

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  1. 1. The first African American child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana
  2. 7. Key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
  3. 8. Prominent black nationalist leader, he was also the spokesman for the Nation of Islam
  4. 9. Founded the black panther party
  5. 11. Most famous for his well-known "I Have a Dream" speech
  6. 13. Leader of the Nation of Islam, expanded the organization by teaching against white supremacy
  7. 14. Most famous for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott
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  1. 2. Leader of the abolishment movement in Manhattan and New York; publisher of the North Star
  2. 3. Inventor of the three-position traffic signal
  3. 4. Leader of the 1995 million-man march in Washington DC
  4. 5. The first African American woman to gain an official pilot license
  5. 6. The first to refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus
  6. 10. Freed over 70 enslaved African Americans and helped free many more
  7. 12. Known as the "peanut man" for his research of peanuts and finding over 300 uses for the peanut