African American Jeopardy III
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- Dorothy Height
- president of National Council of Negro Women
- Violette M. Anderson
- first AA female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court
- Edward Bouchet
- first AA to obtain a Ph.D. in physics
- Josephine Ruffin
- published first AA women's newspaper in U.S.
- Jane Matilda Bolin
- first AA female judge in United States
- W.C. Handy
- "Father of the Blues"
- National Negro Network
- first AA radio network
- Dorothy Height
- received the NAACP key of Life Award in 1988
- Richard Greener
- first African American to receive a degree from Harvard
- 1903
- Maggie Lena Walker becomes first AA woman bank president
- Bernard Shaw
- chief Washington correspondent for CNN
- Paul Williams
- AA that designed homes for celebrities such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra
- Roy Innis
- presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would enable AAs to control education, business, and social services within their own community
- Cotton Club
- name of Harlem club where many famous African American entertainers began their career
- Abraham
- interpreter for the Seminole Indians who requested a guarantee that his people would not be returned to slavery upon leaving the Indian sanctuary
- Carl J.Murphy
- served on the board of directors of the NAACP for 36 years
- Vernon Jordan Jr
- president of United Negro College Fund and chief executive officer of the National Urban League
- Debi Thomas
- first AA to win a medal in Winter Olympics
- E. Simms Campbell
- AA cartoonists became famous for the cartoon "Cuties"
- Prince Hall
- first African American member of the fraternal society the Masons
- Channing Tobias
- former YMCA official who worked for interracial cooperation during the 1930s and 1940s
- Vanessa Williams
- first African American chosen as Miss America
- James Weldon Johnson
- "Every race and ever nation should be judges by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst"
- Lerone Bennett Jr
- executive director of Ebony
- David Bradley
- "There are no good times to be black in America, but some times are worse than others