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1. I won the Heisman Trophy but never played professionally.
2. I was the youngest of 13 children. I founded the only California town to be founded, financed and
governed by African Americans.
3. Most of the time I’m feeling good but strange fruit makes me sick.
4. I created a super way to keep cool in the summer.
5. Born in a Metropolis, I founded by own film and book company, producing and directing over 40 films.
6. I stung like a bee, before Ali.
7. I almost drowned in a pool as a child, but at the 2012 Summer Olympics, I won silver medals in the 4x100-
meter freestyle relay and the 50-meter freestyle.
8. Though self-taught, I helped design plans for the nation’s capitol, designed clocks, and developed detailed
almanacs.
9. Before I directed the movie Shaft, I was already a prominent photographer.
10. I have 19 Grammies but I don’t sing tenor or alto.
11. If you’ve ever played a video game, you have me to thank. I built the first cartridge video game system.
12. I looked after Scarlett O’hara
13. I spearheaded the March on Washington and organized the first black labor union.
14. Black History Month would not exist without me.
15. I run a company who’s name is shorter version of the word, Xerography, meaning "dry writing"
16. In 1980 and 1984, I ran for Vice-President of the United States under the Communist Party
17. I am a black billionaire before Oprah or Bob Johnson.
18. My invention of a gas mask became known nationally when I and three other men used it to save several
men after a 1916 tunnel explosion under Lake Erie.
19. I was the first Black woman to travel in space.
20. Tyra Banks discovers the next top model, but I have appeared on more than 500 magazine cover—the first
black model on the cover of Vogue, in fact.
21. I’m a doctor. I developed methods for successful blood transfusion but died when I couldn’t receive one
myself.
22. I went from senior class president to president of a Fortune 500 company. My American Express card has
no limit….
23. I was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet
24. I am an artist famous for expressionism and folk art like my rendition of these musicians playing in the
street.
25. I was the first black person to win a Pulitzer prize in poetry.
26. I broke the color barrier in the sport of tennis.