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  1. 5. enslaved woman who was able to escape George and Martha Washington on May 21, 1796
  2. 8. became the youngest-ever inaugural poet in 2021
  3. 9. American double spy on British during the Revolutionary War
  4. 11. first African American head coach in the national football league
  5. 12. NASA mathematician whose calculations helped the Apollo rockets make it to the moon and back in 1969
  6. 13. inventor, businessman, and community leader who invented a breathing device that became the blueprint for WWI gas masks
  7. 15. first African American to play major league baseball on April 14, 1947
  8. 21. an enslaved person who escaped and went back many times to help other enslaved people escape
  9. 22. 15 year old who refused to give up her bus seat to a white person10 months before Rosa Parks did
  10. 23. basketball player for the Lakers who holds the record for the most points scored 33,643
  11. 24. first African American woman to reach space
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  1. 1. first African American child to desegregate the all-white school in Louisiana on November 14, 1960
  2. 2. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963
  3. 3. wrote “It Don’t Mean A Thing” and was considered to be the greatest jazz composer and big band leader of his time
  4. 4. George Washington’s enslaved chef who escaped during the President’s birthday celebration on February 22, 1797
  5. 6. first black person to play the lead role in a Marvel movie,“Black Panther”
  6. 7. first African American elected to President of the United States in 2008
  7. 10. enslaved person who made inscribed pottery at a time when it was not legal to teach an enslaved person to read or write
  8. 14. mother filed a case in Delaware so that she could ride the bus with white students. This case became part of Brown vs. Board of Education
  9. 16. first African American to win a grand slam tennis event in 1956
  10. 17. received the Presidential Medal of freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and named “the first lady of civil rights”
  11. 18. first person to step foot on the North Pole on April 6, 1909
  12. 19. successful entrepreneur and the first African American self-made millionaire in the United States
  13. 20. first African American female judge in the U.S.