History Flashcard

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Phillis Wheatley published a collection of poetry in .

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1773

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____________________ was an inventor who helped design Washington, D.C.

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Benjamin Banneker

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Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is considered the father of ________________.

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Chicago

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Garrett Morgan invented gas masks and __________________.

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the automatic traffic light

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__________ was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Ralph Bunche

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__________ was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall

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W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the founders of ________________.

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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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When the Daughters of the American Revolution wouldn’t let her sing in Constitution Hall in 1939, __________ gave a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

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Marian Anderson

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__________ was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall

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In 1993, __________ won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Toni Morrison