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1. Ruby Bridges. 2. Barthelemy Boganda. 3. Olaudah Equiano. Clue: Ruby Bridges became the first Clue: Barthelemy Boganda was a Clue: After purchasing his freedom from African-American child to integrate a politician who was instrumental in the slavery, Olaudah Equiano fought for white elementary school in Louisiana in independence of what is now the abolition in the British Empire. He is 1960. Today she is a philanthropist and a Central African Republic. shown here with his autobiography, The human rights activist. Image: By rfi.fr; Face to Face Africa; Public Domain Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Image: By Daniel Orme; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain r.ol ~ ice AHOVELer

4. The Color Purple. 5. Booker T. Washington. 6. Dorothy Vaughn. Clue: The Color Purple is a book by Alice Clue: Booker T. Washington was an Clue: Dorothy Vaughn was an American Walker from 1982. It inspired a muscial African American educator, reformer, mathmatician at NACA (later NASA) who of the same name that premiered on and political advisor. He was the head of worked as a computer during the Space Broadway in 2005 and had a revival in the Tuskegee Institute for thirty years. Race. She is one of three African 2015. The story follows the life of Celie, Theodore Roosevelt invited Washington American women covered in the an African-American woman living in to dine with him and his family at the biographical book Hidden Figures by the South in the early to mid 1900s. White House in 1901, an invitation that Margot Lee Shetterly. Image: By Alice Walker; Abe Books; ©Alice Walker was considered highly controversial at the time. Image: Unknown; ducksters; Public Domain ROOTS OF KNOWLEDGE UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY lJVU. SEARCH & FIND FEBRUARY- BLACKHISTORY Sapling- Page 2

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7. Langston Hughs. 8. Harriet Tubman. 9. Thurgood Marshall. Clue:Langston Hughes was an American Clue: Harriet Tubman is seen here Clue:Thurgood Marshall became the poet and novelist. He was a notable leading a group of slaves to freedom on first African American Supreme Court figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a the Underground Railroad. The Under­ Justice in 1967. When he was a lawyer, 1920s movement of interest and ground Railroad was an "underground" he argued for the plaintiffs in the expansion of the African American network of people and places to help landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of culture and society. slaves escape. It is estimated that Education. Image: By Jack Delano; Biography; ©Jack Delano around 100,000 slaves gained freedom Image: By Okamoto, Yoichi R; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain because of the Underground Railroad.

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10. Quote - Charles Seifert. 11. Jessie Owens. 12. Emancipation Proclamation. Clue: "A people without the knowledge Clue: Jesse Owens was an African Clue: As one of the most influential of their past history, origin and culture American track and field athlete who documents from the Civil War, the is like a tree without roots." Charles won four gold medals in the Summer Emancipation Proclamation went into Seifert was a Black historian who Olympics in Berlin. He set three-world effect on January 1, 1863 and stated focused on African and African American records in a span of 45 minutes. His that slaves in the rebelling states would history. He was very influencial in the performance was particularly inspiring be freed. Black arts community. This quote is in light of Hitler's claims of Aryan Image: By W. Roberts; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain from his book, The Negro's or Ethiopian's supremacy. Contribution to Art published in 1938. Image: By Unknown; Wlkimedia Commons; Public Domain

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