Black History Month: Who Do You Know ?

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  1. 4. an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
  2. 7. is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017
  3. 9. was the first African-American secretary of state
  4. 10. an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement
  5. 13. an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Best known for her unique writing style.
  6. 14. an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal
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  1. 1. was the inventor of laser cataract surgery
  2. 2. an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America
  3. 3. was an educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  4. 5. was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store
  5. 6. an escaped enslaved woman who became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
  6. 8. an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women's rights activist and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826.
  7. 11. an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  8. 12. was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.