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- 7. an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 and was the first Black president
- 9. American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
- 10. American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
- 11. an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
- 15. likely the first Black person in the U.S. to receive a patent. In 1821, he was granted a patent for “dry scouring,” a method for cleaning clothes that preceded modern-day dry cleaning.
- 17. American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records
- 18. challenged gender stereotypes in American fiction, white privilege in their narratives, and racism in her profession. She helped reshape the genre of science fiction by offering grounded, naturalistic stories
- 19. singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood's first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet, and civil rights activist
- 20. The most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings
- 21. earned acclaim as a Black poet, and historians recognize her as one of the first Black and enslaved persons in the United States to publish a book of poems
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- 1. author, educator, orator, philanthropist, he founded in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881 Tuskegee University
- 2. American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
- 3. invented a device to heat homes more efficiently and safely using natural gas, which became one of the precursors for the development of the modern HVAC system.
- 4. African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination.
- 5. an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
- 6. civil rights activist, married to Dr. MLk Jr., founding the MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- 8. an American political activist, professor, and author who was an active member in the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party.
- 12. American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars
- 13. led the successful peaceful sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters starting in 1960 and co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- 14. American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989
- 16. discovered and invented a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco