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- 3. African- American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched at the age of 14 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
- 6. an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century
- 7. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
- 9. enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
- 10. the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
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- 1. awarded a Pulitzer Prize "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching."
- 2. First black woman to be elected into the United States Congress
- 4. First African- American woman to hold a pilot license.
- 5. Did research with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
- 8. She was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.