Black scientist and mathematicians
This black woman broke racial barriers in NASA while helping calculate the path for the flight to the moon.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This guy was the first black person the play Major League Baseball in the U.S. during the 20th century. He broke racial barriers in the sport while playing.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This woman was known as the mother of the civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This boycott was used to protest segregation on buses after the arrest of Rosa Parks.
What is The Montgomery bus boycott?
This person was the first public defender for Durham North Carolina.
Who is Robert Brown Jr.?
This person created the first clock made entirely out of wood.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
She was the first black women to win 3 trak and feild gold medals in one olympic game.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
This black man was a prominent civil rights leader and believed the black people had to fight against white aggression.
Who is Malcolm X?
This was a huge march that took place and where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This person was the first African American district attorney for Durham County North Carolina.
Who was Tracy Cline?
This person was the first black woman to work at NASA
Who is Mary Jackson?
This black man won 4 olympic gold medals in track in the 1963 olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This black activist helped organized and did the detailed planning for the March on Washington.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This was a famous sit-in in North Carolina that was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC.)
What is the Greensboro sit-in?
She was the first female black mayor in Durham.
Who is Elaine O'Neal?
He was the first black man to earn a Ph.D. in physics in an American college.
Who is Edward Bouchet?
She was the first ever black women to win Wimbledon.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This black woman was famous during the 19th century and was an outspoken, abolitionist, and fought for women's rights. She's known for her “Ain't I a Woman” speech against gender inequality.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This was a group of people who rode across the south protesting segregation in buses.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This was the first black owned bank in Durham, North Carollina.
What is Mechanics and Farmers Bank?
This black man invented many was to preserve food. Many of the modern ways to preserve food are based off his inventions.
Who is Lloyd Hall?
This personis the first black head coach in the NBA
Who is Bill Russell?
This woman led an anti-lynching program back in the 1980s. She also fought for women's rights and later becomes a part of the integral group fighting for African-American rights.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This was one of the deadliest and gruesome marches to happen during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This man founded North Carolina Central University.
Who is James E. Shepard?