Micah's Black History #3

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  1. 3. 1781, this slave ship departed the coast of Africa on the 6th of September with 470 slaves.
  2. 5. Was a turning point in black cultural history. It helped African American writers and artists gain control over the representation of black culture and experience, and it provided them a place in Western high culture.social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement.”
  3. 7. Black American Inventor Improves Rotary Lawn Mower. On May 9, 1899, he patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower & designed a lawn mower with traction wheels and a rotary blade that was designed to not easily get plugged up from lawn clippings.
  4. 10. In 1921, Elizabeth (Nickname in the puzzle) Coleman became the first black woman to gain an international permit to fly.
  5. 11. Patented the street sweeper trucks on March 17, 1896. He also patented a ticket punch design that would collect the chads rather than let them litter the ground.
  6. 12. The son of sharecroppers and grandson of slaves, was the first person to win four gold medals in track and field in a modern Olympic Games.
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  1. 1. Was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
  2. 2. obtained 12 patents for improvements in valves for steam engines
  3. 4. invented a heat apparatus, a gas burner, an electrotyper's furnace, a steam boiler, a trolley wheel controller, a tank signal, and a hydrocarbon burner system.
  4. 6. On March 13, 1957 he became the first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy assigned to duty.
  5. 8. Beard invented an automatic railroad car coupling device called the Jenny Coupler.
  6. 9. Bailiff Invented the Shampoo Headrest in the Year 1890 & he was the first African American to receive a patent for his invention.ElizabethBessieColeman In 1921, she became the first black woman to gain an international permit to fly.