Discover African American Heroes

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  1. 4. I’m a father of peanuts. I discovered 300 useful things made of a peanut.
  2. 7. The 1st African American supreme court in the U.S history was me.
  3. 9. I am an African American basketball play. The first Air Jordan shoes were produced for me.
  4. 10. All U.S. flight schools rejected because I was black and a woman. Later I became the first
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  1. 1. I led the slaves to freedom on my rail road, but I never conducted a train.
  2. 2. I was a civil rights lawyer before entering politics. At the age of 48 I became the first African American president of the United States.
  3. 3. The U.S. army never had a black general before me.
  4. 5. I was the first black American child attending a previously all white elementary school.
  5. 6. Born into slavery, I became an evangelist abolitionist, women’s right activist in 19th century.
  6. 8. I led the famed March on Washington for jobs and freedom on August 28 1963.