YWCA WCMI Black History Month 2022

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  1. 2. First Black president
  2. 6. Poet whose most iconic poems include "Harlem" and "I, Too"
  3. 8. an iconic Black writer and poet whose work coined phrases like “your silence will not protect you”
  4. 10. He invented over 300 uses for the peanut and developed methods to prevent soil depletion.
  5. 11. Engineer who received nearly 60 patents over the course of his life including inventions related to lubrication systems, an ironing board, a lawn sprinkler, and other machines.
  6. 13. First African American woman to become a self-made millionaire
  7. 14. Author of works that often grappled with issues of race, class and gender equity. One of her titles is "The Bluest Eye"
  8. 15. President who signed the Equal Pay Act into law
  9. 17. Best known for inventing a plastic coating for telephone wires that made universal service possible.
  10. 21. First African American USA Senator
  11. 23. First Black woman billionaire per Business Insider
  12. 25. First Black man to become secretary of state
  13. 27. This neighbor of the US also celebrates Black History Month in February
  14. 29. American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
  15. 30. First Black woman elected to the YWCA National
  16. 33. The first Black player for Major League Baseball
  17. 34. Earned over 130 chemical patents, including a firefighting solution called "Bean soup" which helped save the lives of thousands of sailors and naval arimen during World War 2
  18. 35. First Black actress to win an Academy Award
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  1. 1. Activist scholar who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
  2. 3. Famous author of many works including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," she is also the first Black woman to be featured on the US quarter
  3. 4. Civil Rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, ordained priest, and creator of the term #JaneCrow
  4. 5. The President that signed the Civil Rights Act into law
  5. 7. Per the NPCA, the "most photographed" American in the 1800's
  6. 9. best known for her major contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers. Her work was recently recognized and featured in the movie Hidden Figures.
  7. 12. First African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921
  8. 16. Activist organization founded in 1909
  9. 18. First Black man appointed to the US Supreme Court
  10. 19. This federal holiday commemorates the emancipation of African-American slaves
  11. 20. the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
  12. 22. This singer has won the most Grammy Awards of any singer in history
  13. 24. Age of Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to go to an otherwise all-white elementary school in the South
  14. 26. First Black man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908
  15. 28. The approximate number of people Harriet Tubman rescued from slavery
  16. 31. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1968. This was the state she represented.
  17. 32. First Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; coined the term womanism