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Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award. She won it for her role in the great movie "Gone with the Wind."
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He was the first African American to gain a Medical Doctorate. He came up with the idea of blood transfusions. Saved many lives in world war 2.
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A two week long non violent protest of segregated buses in the Southern United States.
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Supreme Court declared segration of blacks and whites in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks an active member of the NAACP, was on a Montegomery bus and refused to give her seat to a white man. She was arrested and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Four Black students walked in a lunch counter and asked for coffee and sat in the diner all day. The server refused to serve them at the 'white only' counter