| Hint | Answer |
| Poet during the Harlem Renaissance; City College now awards a medal under his name. | |
| Called Moses, she led over 300 slaves to freedom. | |
| The first woman, black or white, to earn an international pilot's license. | |
| Gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech. | |
| The instigator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | |
| She wrote 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.' | |
| She was an activist and advisor to FDR. | |
| The inventor of modern ice cream. | |
| At age 6, she integrated a school in New Orleans. | |
| The inventor of peanutbutter. | |
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| She performed to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after being barred from Constitution Hall because of her race. | |
| He was stripped of his heavyweight boxing title because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. | |
| He single-handedly broke the baseball color barrier. | |
| She wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' | |
| He performed the first open-heart surgery. | |
| The first woman, black or white, to earn $1 million. | |
| The first American killed in the Revolutionary War. | |
| The first African-American woman to run for president. | |
| Self-educated leader of the Tuskegee Institute. | |
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