In 1958, Irwin Holmes earned a tennis scholarship at this university becoming one of the very first African American athletes to have an athletic scholarship in the state of NC. (Hint; They wear red!)
North Carolina State University
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This was the first African American man to play Major League Baseball.
Jackie Robinson
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This is the highest grossing (made the most money) of any movie directed by and African American director.
Black Panther
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This man was the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
Barack Obama
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This minister advocated for peaceful resistance to unjust laws. He made the famous "I have a dream" speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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This man was a Muslim minister who believed that African Americans should be totally separate from Whites and advocated a "back to Africa" movement for African Americans.
Malcolm X
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This was the practice that kept schools and other places separated based on race.
Segregation
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This woman is the first African American and first female Vice President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
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First African American to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Hint: It was NOT Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
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This man was the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
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This woman was a former slave who was responsible for freeing many more slaves via the "underground railroad".
Harriet Tubman
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This man was a minister and educator from Oxford, NC. He fought in the Revolutionary War and was the first African American known to attend college in the United States.
John Chavis
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True or False: Edward Bouchet was the first African American to earn a PhD from an American University in 1876.
True. He earned a PhD in Physics from Yale University in 1876