Black History Bowl - 5th Grade

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Who was the first black woman to practice law in Hillsborough County?

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Arthenia Joyner

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Who was the first African American woman to become an airplane mechanic?

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Willa Beatrice Brown

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Who started as a math teacher in Virginia and became one of the first African American women to hold a leadership position at NASA?

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Dorothy Vaughan

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Who wrote the Black National Anthem - "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?

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James Weldon Johnson

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Who opened a Blacks only school in Daytona Beach that later became a college?

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Only African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition who possessed great skills in scouting, hunting, and field medicine.

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York

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Which person was an author and anthropologist, and whose father was mayor of Eatonville, Florida?

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Zora Neale Hurston

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First African American to serve as head of a Florida state agency (Department of Community Affairs), 1970

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M. Athalie Range

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Who taught English at Blake High School and had a school named after her in 2022 in Hillsborough County?

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Dorothy C. York

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First African American woman from Florida to graduate from an accredited law school, Howard University. In 1922, she supervised schools for black children in Tampa and Hillsborough County.

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Blanche Armwood