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Black History Month

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Spent 20 years in jail for his opposition to apartheid
Frederick Douglass was a leader of which movement during the Civil War?
Group of black students who worked to desegregate all-white Central High School in Little Rock, AR.
Used to go north to freedom
Act of 1957
Poet Still I Rise
Author of Roots
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A U.S. civil rights organization set up in 1909 to oppose racial segregation and discrimination by nonviolent means.
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Invented and patented Tunnel Construction for the electric railroad system
First African American to make a space flight
Created Black History Month
Inspiring leader of the non-violent civil right movement.
Political and social protest to oppose the city's policy of segregation in the bus systems.
Team of African American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.
44th President
She refused to give up her seat.