The People Who Made Black History

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  1. 5. Langston Hughes is considered the poet ___ of African Americans as a key writer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
  2. 9. Matthew Henson became not only the first African American, but the first PERSON, to stand on the ___.
  3. 12. Marian Anderson was the first African American to sing at the ___ Opera House in New York City.
  4. 13. Muhammad Ali was born _____, and later threw his Olympic gold medal into a river due to discrimination.
  5. 14. This man was known for negotiating a peace settlement between Arabs and Jews in 1949. He was also in President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet."
  6. 15. Musician, composer, and band leader who helped elevate jazz music to a legitimate art form.
  7. 17. In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a tennis championship at ___.
  8. 19. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. became the first black general in the U.S. Army, and he fought to make sure the Army would be ___.
  9. 20. ___ Bluford, Jr. was the first black astronaut to go into space.
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  1. 1. Crispus Attucks was the first of five people to die in the ___ on March 5, 1770.
  2. 2. Nicknamed "Satchmo," he was a master trumpet player who also starred in many Hollywood films.
  3. 3. The first African American to win a ___ Prize for Poetry was Gwendolyn Brooks.
  4. 4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led his high school, college, and NBA teams to ____.
  5. 6. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, became an ___ and fought to end slavery
  6. 7. Benjamin ___ is known for building the first clock made entirely in America and helping to survey what would become Washington, D.C.
  7. 8. Known as the "Father of Blood Banks," Dr. Charles Drew discovered a way to store blood in ___ form to save lives.
  8. 10. Helped found the A.M.E. Church and led the first mass protest by blacks in U.S. history.
  9. 11. Blind from age 7, this musician has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Halls of Fame.
  10. 16. Hank Aaron held the MLB record for the most ___ with 755 from 1974-2007.
  11. 18. Paul Laurence Dunbar is famous as America's first great black poet, known for writing poetry in the black ____ of the time.