Family Education Network
January 2001February 2001
     

I was the youngest-ever Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I am President Bush's Secretary of State.
Who am I?


In 1969, I was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I wrote "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
Who am I?
         

I received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.
I refused to give my bus seat to a white man.
Who am I?


I was a New Orleans jazz musician.
My nickname was "Satchmo."
Who am I?

I wrote The Temple of My Familiar.
I won a Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple.
Who am I?

I co-wrote the song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" in 1938.
I won 14 Grammy Awards.
Who am I?
I was the first black man to win Wimbledon.
I was the first tennis player to earn $100,000 in a year.
Who am I?
         

I was a famous abolitionist and suffragette in the 1800s.
I helped desegregate the streetcars in Washington, DC.
Who am I?

I wrote three auto- biographies.
I was an advisor to President Lincoln.
Who am I?

As a lawyer, I won Brown v. Board of Ed.
I was the first African- American Supreme Court Justice.
Who am I?

I was the first black photographer at Life magazine.
I wrote The Learning Tree.
Who am I?

In 1952, I received the World Peace Council Prize.
I founded the NAACP.
Who am I?
         

I was a Guggenheim fellow and Poet Laureate.
I was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer.
Who am I?

I'm a Grammy Award-winning writer and composer.
I read one of my poems at President Clinton's inauguration.
Who am I?

I was a spy for the Union army.
I freed hundreds of slaves along the Underground Railroad.
Who am I?
I am a professor at Princeton University.
I won the Pulitzer Prize for the book Beloved.
Who am I?

I was an agricultural scientist and inventor.
Peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes were my specialty.
Who am I?
         

I was committed to black economic independence.
I wrote many books and ran the Tuskegee Institute.
Who am I?

I was the first black woman to carry an LPGA card.
I was the first African American to win Wimbledon.
Who am I?

I used Mahatma Gandhi's approach to peace.
"I have a dream..."
Who am I?

 
         
 

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