[Answer] 1. An African-American activist, this woman was famously arrested for refusing to vacate her seat on a bus for a white man. She was later rewarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Who is she?

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...1. Claudette Colvin 2. Irene Morgan 3. Rosa Parks 4. Sarah Keys Rosa Parks was born on the 4th of Febuary 1913 and passed away on the 24th of October 2005. A notable civil rights activist, she was infamously arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. Honours she received include the Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. She was referred to by the US Congress as "the first lady of civil rights." The other three woman also famously refused to stand for white people on a bus, but they did not fit the rest of the description.

[Answer] Who was the first African-American to play major league baseball in 1884?

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...Moses Fleetwood Walker broke through the barrier between black men and major league baseball in 1884. Walker played in the years immediately following the Civil War. He suffered verbal abuse from fans at most games. Walker was a good-field, no-hit catcher. He was born in a way station along the Underground Railroad in 1957. He played several seasons with a minor-league white minor-league team, then joined the American Association with the Toledo Blue Stockings. Segregation at that time was a "gentlemen's agreement" with no state or federal laws to stop a black man from playing. So, Walker integrated the game at age 26. Walker had to quit baseball in 1889 because of racism. Source: MLB.mlb.com

[Answer] Who was the first African-American coach in the NBA?

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...William "Bill" Felton Russell hails from Monroe, Louisiana. After joining the NBA, he became the first outstanding defensive center in professional basketball's history. During his career, he won 11 NBA titles over his 13 seasons as a player with the Boston Celtics. In 1966 he took on a dual role: he became the player-coach of the Celtics. This gave him the historic distinction of being the first African-American coach in the men's professional basketball league. Source: Britannica.com

[Ans] Which African-American athlete died of AIDS on this day in 1993?

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Arthur Ashe is the only African-American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. He is also the first African-American man to be ranked as the No. 1 tennis player in the world. He would also become the first African-American man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Arthur Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6, 1993.

[Answer] Which African-American athlete died of AIDS on this day in 1993?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which African-American athlete died of AIDS on this day in 1993?"

...Arthur Ashe is the only African-American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. He is also the first African-American man to be ranked as the No. 1 tennis player in the world. He would also become the first African-American man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Arthur Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6, 1993.