Black History Month 2018

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  1. 3. ____________ is the celebration of June 19th 1865, when Union Soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX resulting in the freeing of remaining slaves, 2 yrs after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
  2. 5. ___________ was the first African-American woman to receive a patent.
  3. 6. ____________ ran for the 1972 Democratic nomination for President, becoming the first major party African American candidate in history.
  4. 7. The first immortal cell line came from _____________ after decades of failures growing tissue cultures. Those cells were named “HeLa” cells, to hide their origin.
  5. 8. The first African American Arctic Explorer was ____________. He was recognized as the first person to reach the North Pole in 1909.
  6. 9. Utilized in life-saving devices, the wire precision resistor for the pacemaker was invented in 1959 by _________.
  7. 10. Refrigerated truck systems were invented in 1939 by __________.
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  1. 1. In 1940, _____________ was the first African American to win an Oscar after playing head slave “Mammy” in the Civil War epic “Gone with the Wind”.
  2. 2. ____________ was the first African American woman named to U.S. Ambassadorship and the first to hold a Cabinet position.
  3. 4. For his roles in "Training Day" and "Glory", _____________ is the only African-American to take home multiple acting Oscars.