African-Americans in Sports
Great Accomplishments
X,Y,Z
Great Leaders
Before and After
100
She became the first African-American woman to own a professional basketball team
Who is Alexis Levi (she owns the Las Vegas Stars)?
100
He broke Babe Ruth's home run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974 and he set a Major League record with 755 home runs in his career.
Who is Hank Aaron?
100
This race relations advisor to presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, was the executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971.
Who is Whitney M. Young, Jr?
100
King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God. All were used to describe this individual who ruled as Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 and is venerated still as the Divine incarnate by adherents of the Rastafari faith.
Who is Haile Selassie?
100
First African American to receive a Best Leading Actress Academy Award and Founder of the Motown Record Label
Who are Halle Berry and Berry Gordy?
200
In 2005, this African-American business mogul was thisclose to becoming the first African-American Majority Owner of an NFL team.
Who is Reggie Fowler (He is a minority share owner of the Minnesota Vikings)?
200
She was the first African American congresswoman and one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
200
Also known by Shawn Carter, Jigga, and Hove, he became one of the most financially successful hip hop artist and entrepreneurs in America.
Who is Jay-Z?
200
This Egyptian is remembered for the luxuries of her fabled kingdom, her dazzling beauty and, above all, her death. Immortalized by Shakespeare, her alleged suicide was the stuff of romantic legend — despairing after the defeat in battle of her lover, Marc Antony, she succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp.
Who is Cleopatra?
200
A film director whose prolific career includes titles such as Do the Right Thing and 4 Little Girls and He received a Best Director Academy Award nomination for his work on Precious.
Who are Spike Lee and Malcolm Lee?
300
He became the first African-American major league baseball coach.
Who is Buck O’Neil (of the Chicago Cubs)?
300
The first African-American to become a four-star general in the U.S. Air Force.
Who is Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.?
300
In 1915, he opened his first photography studio and was known for capturing a visual record of Harlem life.
Who is James Van Der Zee?
300
He laid out his vision for the United States when he proclaimed during his 1858 U.S. Senate campaign that a "house divided cannot stand." When he was elected president in 1860, becoming the first Republican elected to the executive branch, he realized that in order to save the Constitution he had to save the Union, even if it led to bloodshed.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Her Miseducation earned her 5 Grammy Awards and He wrote "Letters to a Young Brother"
Who are Lauryn Hill and Hill Harper?
400
Sheila Johnson is an owner/partner in three professional sports franchises – the Mystics, the Wizards, and the … Name the third team.
Who are the NHL’s Washington Capitals?
400
The first female African-American lawyer in the United States.
Who is Charlotte Ray (in 1872)?
400
This activist was born in a Midwestern state and raised by a half-white mother.
Who is Malcom X (born in Nebraska)?
400
Over his 27 years in jail, he became the symbol of an entire people's struggle against injustice. And as his time behind bars grew so did the anti-apartheid movement he helped spur on. In 1994, he won the nation's first multiracial elections, becoming South Africa's first black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
In 1888, First African American to be elected to the US Congress from Virginia and This poet's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is said to be his signature work.
Who are John Mercer Langston and Langston Hughes?
500
Bill Lucas became the first African-American owner of which major league baseball team?
Who are The Atlanta Braves (in 1971)?
500
The first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, as well as the first African-American to preside over the Senate.
Who is Blanche Kelso Bruce (in 1878)?
500
This writer collected African-American folktales in the rural South and interpreted them into short stories. She collaborated on the play “Mule Bone” with Langston Hughes.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
500
Inspired by the fighting spirit of her mother, she became widely known as the "Spirit" of the Civil Rights movement. She helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which went to the 1964 Democratic National Convention and challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation. Because of these efforts an integrated delegation was eventually seated in 1968.
Fannie Lou Hamer
500
She was appointed to the DC Board of Education in 1895 making her the first black woman to hold such a position and He is a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Who are Mary Church Terrell and Terrell Owens?
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