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1-100 q • The inventor of the traffic light and the gas mask.

1-100 a • Garrett Morgan

2-100 q • He developed over one hundred forty uses for the peanut

2-100 a • Dr. George W. Carver

3-100 q • She started a college for girls in Florida with only $1.50.

3-100 a • Mary McLeod Bethune

4-100 q • The first African American to get her poetry published.

4-100 a • Phillis Wheatley

5-100 q • The Greatest Defensive Center in the history of basketball. He played for the Boston Celtics.

5-100 a • Bill Russell

6-100 q • The First African American Male to win an Academy Award.

6-100 a • Sidney Poitier

1-200 q • Invented a method to smooth and soften African American hair. The first black female millionaire.

1-200 a • Madame C. J. Walker

2-200 q • First to develop a blood bank.

2-200 a • Dr. Charles Drew

3-200 q • Has a Doctorate degree in Education and appeared on the TV show his name was Dr. Huxtable.

3-200 a • Dr. William Cosby

4-200 q • She read poetry at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

4-200 a • Maya Angelou

5-200 q • The First African American NFL coach to win the Super Bowl.

5-200 a • Tony Dungy

6-200 q • Called the “poet laureate of soul music”. A singer , songwriter, producer.

6-200 a • Smokey Robinson

1-300 q • Invented the ironing board.

1-300 a • Sarah Boone

2-300 q • She was the first black woman in space.

2-300 a • Mae Jemison

3-300 q • The first black president of a college in the United States.

3-300 a • Daniel Payne

4-300 q • The first female African American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

4-300 a • Toni Morrison

5-300 q • The first woman to repeat as Olympic heptathlon champion.

5-300 a • Jackie Joyner Kersee

6-300 q • The first African American female to win an Academy Award

6-300 a • Hattie McDaniel

1-400 q • Invented a lubricant for steam engines, known as the “Real”

1-400 a • McCoy • Elijah McCoy

2-400 q • The first black woman U. S. Surgeon General.

2-400 a • Jocelyn Elders

3-400 q • First African American to appear on a postage stamp.

3-400 a • Booker T. Washington

4-400 q • One of America’s most original writers, was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

4-400 a • Zora Neale Hurston

5-400 q • Hits 715 home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.

5-400 a • Hank Aaron

6-400 q • Known as “Satchmo”. The greatest jazz trumpeter of the 20th century.

6-400 a • Louis Armstrong

1-500 q • The inventor of first Farmer’s Almanac

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