Super Sleuths
African American History 

Welcome super sleuths.  Additional training is needed if you are going to be a good sleuth.  Our mission  is to match the clues with the right person.  Be careful, we don't want to make mistakes here.  A good sleuth always double checks his work.

Read each clue.  Each clue tells about a famous Black American on the list below.   Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person.  Write the name of the person that the clue tells about.  Remember to click the back button on the browser to return to this page.

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1. This person invented a machine, called a "lasting machine," that stitched the leather of a shoe to its sole. 

2. This person served three years in reform school for attempted burglary before writing many famous rock-and-roll songs. 

3. This person sang in church choirs while growing up as the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers. 

4. This person was a nursery school teacher before becoming a well-known political figure. 

5. A Nation of Islam minister at one time, he was assassinated by three members of the group while giving a speech in 1965. 

6. This person's given first and middle names at birth were "Edward Kennedy." 

7. This person was the first black congresswoman to be elected from the Deep South. 

8. A Harvard graduate, this person played a role in starting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 

9. This person helped register black voters in Mississippi and led boycotts there of firms that practiced racial discrimination. 

10. This person was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in making an Arab-Israeli peace in 1949.