black history month

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  1. 2. first African-American woman elected to Congress.
  2. 3. civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.
  3. 5. 1920's painter, most famous paintings were of the Great Migration
  4. 6. first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot's license
  5. 7. A former slave. Became an outspoken advocate for abolition and civil and women's rights.
  6. 11. Father of Black History Month
  7. 12. American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist
  8. 13. first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era.
  9. 15. principal spokesman of the Nation of Islam during the 1950s.
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  1. 1. He disguised himself as a sailor to escape slavery.
  2. 4. His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered in 1963.
  3. 8. she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
  4. 9. died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
  5. 10. Young poet who wrote "The Hill We Climb" and performed it on January 20, 2021 at the Inauguration
  6. 14. 44th president of the United States