African American Jeopardy V
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- Samuel Proctor
- AA associate director of the Peace Corps
- Henry Flipper
- first AA to graduate from West Point Military Academy and to later become an adviser to the US Governemnt
- Horace Pippin
- regarded as the first important AA painter
- Mohandas Gandhi
- MLK, Jr adopted his nonviolence strategy from this person
- Samuel Ward
- Black Daniel Webster
- Whitney Young Jr
- organized the National Skills Bank in order to improve job opportunities for AA
- Saints' Rest
- name given to the home of Rober and Harrie Purvis, which was open to runaway slaves and abolitionists in 1800s
- 1954
- year Joe Louis enters the Boxing Hall of Fame
- John Mercer Langston
- first AA to win an elective office
- Natalie Cole
- won a Grammy Award in 1992 for "Unforgettable", a musical tribute to her late father
- Rafer Johnson
- famous Olympic champion standing at Senator Robert Kennedy's side when Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan
- Brock Peters
- actor appered in To Kill A Mockingbird and Heavens Above
- Carter G.Woodson
- responsible for starting Black History Week
- Oliver Lewis
- first AA jockey to win the Kentucky Derby
- Bessie Coleman
- received her pilot's license in 1922; first AA woman aviator
- Young Men's Christian Association
- William L. Still organized this in 1880 for AA youth
- 1991
- Thurgood Marshall retires from US Supreme Court
- Martin Delany
- first AA to hold rank of major during Civil War
- Booker T.Washington
- advised presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt
- American Revolution
- Oliver Cromwell well-known freedom fighter in this war
- James Farmer
- organized the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Oscar Micheaux
- most well known AA movie producer in the 1920s
- Alexander Crummell
- 1897, began and led American Negro Academy
- Daniel Alexander Payne
- visited the White House frequently during the Civil War, trying to convince Abe Lincoln to free slaves
- The Black Manifesto
- document written by James Forma that demanded $500 million to be collected from white churches and synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by AAs