Black History Month - Famous Former Debaters

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  1. 2. At age 17, this "Queen of All Media" won the Miss Black Tennessee pageant.
  2. 4. Dr. Alexa Canady was the first American woman and first Black person to become a...
  3. 6. This late, legendary debate coach earned the 2019 NSDA Lifetime Achievement Award.
  4. 9. James Farmer debated at this HBCU, spotlighted in The Great Debaters.
  5. 13. In the same year he earned the 1963 NAACP Spingarn Medal, he was assassinated.
  6. 14. Vice President Kamala Harris competed on the debate team at this HBCU.
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  1. 1. He became the first African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner for his role in Israel's mediation in the 1940s.
  2. 3. Gwen Ifill became the first Black woman to host a nationally televised US Public Affairs program on this channel.
  3. 5. John Davis, a formidable debater, co-founded the National Negro Congress and founded this magazine.
  4. 7. Johnson H. Johnson became the first Black person to appear on the Forbes 400 list after founding this famous magazine in 1945.
  5. 8. Justice Thurgood Marshall argued and won this landmark integration case, _________ vs. Board of Education.
  6. 10. This Congresswoman was played by Uzo Aduba in the recent historical miniseries, "Miss America"
  7. 11. James Earl Jones added this exclusive acronym to his CV after receiving an Honorary Academy Award from Sir Ben Kingsley.
  8. 12. After delivering the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, she became the first African American woman named as Time Magazine's person of the year in 1976.