This man was the first African-American man on a U.S. postage stamp. He was responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama
Booker T. Washington
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This man was the first African American Supreme Court justice and he played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement?
Thurgood Marshall
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This man gave his most famous, âI Have a Dreamâ speech, in 1963, in which he spoke of his dream of a United States that is void of segregation and racism?
Martin Luther King Jr.
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This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
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This woman helped blacks escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad after moving to Battle Creek in 1857?
Sojourner Truth
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Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?
1976
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This man is a famous chemist and his research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops
George Washington Carver
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This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Toni Morrison
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This woman is called "the mother of the civil rights movement," and she helped the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
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This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a âconductor" of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
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This woman is a civil rights activist and best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman?
Maya Angelou
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Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?
February
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This woman became the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle?