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- 2. She was told to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused.
- 5. His most memorable act of “good trouble” occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
- 7. Is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North.
- 9. Became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College
- 11. He was such an amazing speaker that he started traveling all over the northern states, trying to convince large groups of people to end the practice of enslaving people.
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- 1. Delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech, which boosted public support for civil rights
- 3. His best known case was Brown vs. Board of Education, which challenged school segregation, when white and Black students are forced to go to separate schools.
- 4. Her thrilling speeches won her the respect of many educated people fighting for the rights of Black people and women. That included President Abraham Lincoln.
- 6. The first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license
- 8. One of her biggest accomplishments at NASA was helping calculate the trajectory, or path, of the country’s first human spaceflight in 1961, making sure astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., had a safe trip.
- 10. Decided to run for president (the first African-American woman to do so)