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What year did Rosa Park's bravery start the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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1955
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1953
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1954
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1956
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Rosa Parks is one of only four Americans to receive the honor of lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
Who was the first woman and the first African American to run for a major political party's presidential ticket?
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Rep. Shirley Chisholm
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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
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Barbara Jordan
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Cardiss Collins
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder became the first African American governor in America in 1990.
Who was the first black artist to win a Grammy?
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Michael Jackson
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Prince
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Jimmy Hendricks
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is the black person with the most Grammy awards. He collected an astonishing 80 nominations and 28 awards in a career that spanned 60 years.
What was the first African country to gain independence?
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Ghana
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South Africa
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Nigeria
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Egypt
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A whooping 17 African Countries gained independence in 1960.
Who was the first African American in space?
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Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
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Fredrick D. Gregory
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Ronald McNair
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Charles Bolden
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The spacecraft that carried the first African American to space was called the Orbit Challenger. The name seems like something from a sci-fi movie!
Who was the first African American general?
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Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.
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William H. Carney
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Henry Ossian Flipper
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Della H. Raney
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Cathay Williams became the first African American woman to enlist in the military in 1866.
Who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal?
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John Baxter Taylor Jr.
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Kipchoge Keino
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Muhammad Ali
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Simone Biles
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Lauryn Williams is one of five athletes to have won both a summer and winter Olympic medal and was the first woman to do so.
Who was the first African American to win a Nobel prize?
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Ralph Joseph Bunche
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Albert John Luthuli
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Marie Curie
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Ralph Bruce received the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a cease-fire between Israelis and Arabs in 1948!
What year was slavery abolished in England and America, respectively?
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1833 and 1865
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1807 and 1811
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1819 and 1510
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1865 and 1877
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The first-ever public sale of slaves was in Portugal in 1444.
What African countries were never colonized?
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Liberia and Ethiopia
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Egypt and South Africa
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Egypt and Madagascar
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Ethiopia and Kenya
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The Ethiopian calendar system is seven years behind the rest of the world!
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