Bh Flashcards

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Most decorated gymnast in World Championship history

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Simone Biles

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First Black woman to win Olympic all-around gold (gymnastics)

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Gabby Douglas

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Won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics

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Jesse Owens

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Overcame polio and won three Olympic gold medals

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Wilma Rudolph

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First Black woman to win Olympic gold medal

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Alice Coachman

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Olympians who raised a Black Power fist in 1968

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Tommie Smith and John Carlos

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First Black athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal

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Debi Thomas

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Sprinter whose world records still stand (Flo-Jo)

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Florence Griffith-Joyner

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First Black American gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal

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Dominique Dawes

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Boxer known as “The Greatest”

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Muhammad Ali

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Tennis legend with 23 Grand Slam titles

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Serena Williams

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NBA star nicknamed “King James”

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LeBron James

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Broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier

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Jackie Robinson

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First Black person to win an Academy Award

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Hattie McDaniel

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First Black man to win Best Actor Oscar

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Sidney Poitier

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EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) and entertainer

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Creator of Grey’s Anatomy

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Shonda Rhimes

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“Queen of Soul”

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Aretha Franklin

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19
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Director of Black Panther

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Ryan Coogler

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Director of Get Out

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Jordan Peele

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Artist behind the album Renaissance

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Beyoncé

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Founder of Roc Nation

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Jay-Z

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Wrote Beloved

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Toni Morrison

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Poet who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Maya Angelou

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Jazz singer “Lady Day”
Billie Holiday
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Jazz trumpeter “Satchmo”
Louis Armstrong
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“King of Pop”
Michael Jackson
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Media mogul and talk show icon
Oprah Winfrey
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First Black woman to win Grammy Album of the Year
Natalie Cole
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Painter known for “The Sugar Shack” and NFL-inspired Black life imagery
Ernie Barnes
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Contemporary fiber artist known for quilted Black portraiture
Bisa Butler
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Harlem Renaissance painter known for silhouette-style murals
Aaron Douglas
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Harlem Renaissance poet and cultural leader
Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston
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NASA mathematician featured in Hidden Figures
Katherine Johnson
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First Black woman astronaut
Mae Jemison
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First Black man in space
Guion Bluford
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First Black female NASA engineer (Hidden Figures)
Mary Jackson
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Inventor of traffic signal improvement and gas mask
Garrett Morgan
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Inventor of the Super Soaker
Lonnie Johnson
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Pioneer of blood bank storage systems
Charles Drew
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Inventor of early home security system
Marie Van Brittan Brown
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Early open-heart surgery pioneer
Daniel Hale Williams
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NASA mathematician and supervisor (Hidden Figures)
Dorothy Vaughan
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Computer engineer who helped create the IBM PC
Mark Dean
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What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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HBCU known as “The Mecca”
Howard University
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All-women’s HBCU in Atlanta
Spelman College
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MLK Jr.’s alma mater
Morehouse College
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HBCU in Tallahassee
Florida A&M University
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Oldest HBCU in the United States
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
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Famous HBCU marching band “The Marching 100”
Florida A&M University
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First Black U.S. President
Barack Obama
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First Black female Vice President
Kamala Harris
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First Black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
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First Black woman elected to Congress
Shirley Chisholm
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Gave the “I Have a Dream” speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
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Leader of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
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Abolitionist speaker and writer
Frederick Douglass
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Nation of Islam leader and activist
Malcolm X
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Founder of Black History Month / “Father of Black History”
Carter G. Woodson
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First Black woman bank president in U.S.
Maggie Lena Walker
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NAACP co-founder and scholar-activist
W.E.B. Du Bois
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First Black U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell
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Co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Alicia Garza
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Young poet at a presidential inauguration (2021)
Amanda Gorman
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Actor who portrayed Black Panther (T’Challa)
Chadwick Boseman
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TV show featuring the Huxtable family
The Cosby Show (likely test question)