African American Firsts
This was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
This conductor said, " I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Who is Harriet Tubman
At the Academy Awards held in 2002, these actors won Best Actor and Actress Oscars?
Who are Denzel Washington (Training Day) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)?
This inventor created peanut butter and 518 additional products from the crop: including ink, dye, soap, cosmetics, flour, vinegar and more.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This city in the Big Apple is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop
The Bronx, NY
This civil rights activist said "The time is always right to do what is right"
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
This record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit in 1959.
What is Motown Records?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
Kamala Harris, the first African American, South Asian, and Woman Vice President, earned her undergraduate degree at this HBCU and joined this Black Greek lettered sorority.
What is Howard University and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
This author said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
This "Flawless" "Diva" became the first African-American woman to win the ASCAP Pop Music Songwriter of the Year Award in 2001.
Who is Beyonce?
This inventor make travel safer by creating the traffic light with a third "caution" light and received a patent for his "Breathing Device", which was one the earliest version of a gas mask.
Who is Garret Morgan?
This woman became the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This rapper gave us the iconic lyrics, "Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart's in it, and live the phrase sky's the limit"
Who is Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls?
This African American entertainer was a spy during World War II.
Who is Josephine Baker?
Lonnie G. Johnson, a black inventor and scientists who's resume boasts work with the US Air Force and Nasa, accidentally conceived this novelty water gun powered by air pressure in 1982.
What is the Super Soaker?
in 2020, this person became FINRA's first African American EVP in the company's history.
Who is Rainia Washington
This First Lady said "When they go low, we go high"
Who is Michelle Obama?
In 1953, the song "Hound Dog" was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley's 1956 version.
Who is Big Mama Thornton?
Sarah Boone made taking wrinkles out of clothes easier when she created this apparatus to lie clothing on while ironing.
What is the Ironing Board?