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What is Isabella Baumfree?
SOJOURNER TRUTH'S BIRTH NAME
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Who is Charles Bolden?
First African American to lead the NASA space program
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What is NATIONAL NEGRO DOLLS COMPANY?
This company was founded to introduce African American children to dolls that looked like them
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Who is WALLY "FAMOUS" AMOS
First black to open a cookie only retail store
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Who is HENRY BROWN?
He escaped slavery by being mailed in a "box" from Richmond, VA to Philadelphia, PA
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What is NORTH STAR?
ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER FOUNDED BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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What is Hidden Figures?
Movie about FOUR FEMALE AFRICAN AMERICAN MATHMETICIANS AT NASA
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What is MAXWELL HOUSE?
Ann Fudge became the first African American woman to head a major company as President of this brand of Coffee
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What is SAN ANTONIO?
First Southern city to integrate lunch counters
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What is NEVER?
According to the Confederate Constitution, when could slavery be abolished?
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Who is IDA B. WELLS?
FEMALE BEST KNOWN FOR HER ANTI-LYNCHING CAMPAIGN
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What is Challenger?
Ronald McNain was the first black astronaut killed during a space mission on this shuttle
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What is WHERE YOU CAN'T WORK?
This campaign forced America to take a look at the economic potential of the black race "Don't Buy…………
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Who is STOKELY CARMICHAEL?
First person to popularize the phrase "Black Power!"
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What is MIDDLE PASSAGE?
The trip from Africa to North America for slaves
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What is seamstress?
ROSA PARKS'S OCCUPATION AT THE TIME OF HER ARREST FOR REFUSING TO GIVE UP HER SEAT
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What is France?
BESSIE COLEMAN OBTAINED HER PILOT'S LICENSE IN THIS COUNTRY
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What is DOOKY CHASES?
Famous black-owned restaurant in New Orleans during the Civil Rights Era
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Who is BOOKER T. WASHINGTON?
First black to be honored by having his likeness appear on a U.S. coin
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Who is WILLIAM TUCKER?
First black child born in the colonies
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Who is Malcolm X?
MEMBER OF THE NATION OF ISLAM BORN WITH THE LAST NAME LITTLE?
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What is Endeavor?
Mae C Johnson boarded this space shuttle as a science mission specialist.
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What is BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS?
Philip Randolph founded the first, major, nationwide black union
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What is APOLLO?
First theatre to feature black artists while being available to other minorities
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What is SEVEN?
Age of famous poet Phyllis Wheatley when she was kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave
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