Identify The Pictured African-American and Give At Least One Fact About Each Trail Blazing King-Size Dreamer!

Black History Month Quiz #1

KING SIZE DREAMERS

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Minnie Joycelyn Elders

First Black Surgeon General of the United States.

Appointed to the Cabinet under President Bill Clinton from

9-1993 to 12-31-1994

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Dr. Charles DrewA pioneering African-

American medical doctor and

researcher, Dr. Drew made some

groundbreaking discoveries in the

banking and processing of blood

for transfusions.

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Alice WalkerMs. Walker is a poet, author, and novelist. Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her 1982 novel, The Color Purple.

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Attorney Obama

44th President Barack Obama gave his $1.4 million 2009 Nobel Peace Prize money to Haiti Fund, UNCF, and other charities. Obama Cares!

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Thurgood Marshall

As NAACP counsel, Marshall won the Brown v. Board of Education case. Marshall was the first black appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, serving 24 years.

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

Toussaint is known as The Black Napoleon! With no formal military training Toussaint, a slave, drove one of the world’s fiercest generals, Napoleon, out of Haiti; leading his country to independence in 1794!

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Doris “Dorie Raging Bull” MillerFirst black sailor to receive the Navy Cross for distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and disregard of his personal safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 12-07-1941.

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Dr. Ronald McNair

Physicist & Astronaut was selected as shuttle mission specialist in August of 1979. Dr. McNair lost his life in the Challenger explosion.

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Sanya Richards-Ross

Sanya became the most decorated female track and field Gold Medal Olympian of all

times from 2002 to 2012! She set the world records in

both the 200 and 400 meters relays.

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Dr. Alex JeffersonA Tuskegee Airman who served in World War II Red Tail of the 332nd Fighter Group. This POW and author is a member of Conant Avenue UMC.