Historical Black Leaders

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  1. 3. Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court
  2. 5. Enslaved man who unsuccessfully tried to sue for his, his wife, and his children's freedom
  3. 8. First African American woman to obtain an international pilot's license
  4. 9. Escaped from slavery and spoke at religious revivals, spoke about women's rights, and againts enslaving people
  5. 13. Minister and national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam
  6. 14. Prominent civil rights leader, made a speech about his dream
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  1. 1. Wrote articles in Tennessee newspapers about what was truly happening to Black people
  2. 2. Scientist who found hundreds of uses for peanuts
  3. 4. After escaping slavery, became the national leader of an abolitionist movement
  4. 6. First African American player in Major League Baseball
  5. 7. Refused to give up seat for a white passenger on a segregated bus
  6. 10. Conductor on the Underground Railroad
  7. 11. First African American president of the U.S.
  8. 12. Ranked greatest boxer of all time