Influential Black Figures

• Patrick Henry

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King

• Jeremiah Collins

Hint: journalist who reported the prejudiced violence against blacks, and helped found the NAACP

• Tina Shaw

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Harriet Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

Hint: first black justice on the Supreme Court, before that he won 29/32 cases as a civil rights lawyer for NAACP

• Hawson Smith

• Jamie Foxx

• John C. Brown

• Thurgood Marshall

Hint: considered a hero

• Aunt Jemima

• Aretha Franklin

• Coretta King

• Harriet Tubman

What did Frederick Douglass do?

• issued the Emancipation Proclamation

• write and speak against slavery; also proved blacks can be inntellectuals

• create the first bluetooth headphones

• not die

What is Crispus Attucks known for?

• first person to die for the revolution

• freed the slaves

• came up with the idea for the Boston Tea Party

• being white but actually not

• Jackie Robinson

• Usain Bolt

• Jesse Owens

• Fritz Pollard

• Muhammad Ali

• Don Newcombe

• Maxwell Sherman

• John Taylor

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Hint: writer and poet

• Diana Ross

• Mariah Springer

• Maya Angelou

• Sherie Braxton