Inventors & Pioneers
Athletes
Educators
Activists/Government
Entertainers
100
She was the first African American female millionaire with her own revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame C. J. Walker
100
He is the first African American golf champion to tour the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods
100
He is the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
100

This African American man was a prominent and leader of the Civil Rights Movement and was Muslim man

Who was Malcom X

100

Who puts the D in the famous streamer group DYK

Who is Brucedropemoff


200
This famous African American inventor developed peanut better and 400 plant products
Who is George Washington Carver
200
He said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating."
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison
200

This organization was founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advance civil rights for African Americans.

Who is NAACP 

200
She is the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and she is also the first African American woman billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey
300

This African American woman invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see

Who is Dr. Patricia E. Bath

300

She was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics

Who is Wilma Rudolph

300
She said, "Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
300

This famous African American woman refused to give up her seat to a white man which helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Who is Rosa Parks

300
He is known as the "King of Pop." His "Thriller" albulm has sold more records than any other in history
Who is Michael Jackson
400
She was known as a pioneer in aviation and was the first African American woman to obtain a pilot's license and fly a plane
Who is Bessie Coleman
400

He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. He is credited with making the NBA internationally known

Who is Michael Jordan

400
There were the first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine
400
This Supreme Court decision said that segregated public schools were not really equal and should be integrated
What is Brown v. Board of Education
400

Who is the first African American to preform the world cup

Who is the R.Kelly 

500
This famous African American inventor invented the traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan
500
He is the first player in NFL history to win both Rookie of the Year and the MVP Award in the same season (1957)
Who is Jim Brown
500
She is an African American woman who worked to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and she was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
500

This abolitionist escaped slavery and later became a leading activist for abolition, women’s rights, and equal rights.

Fredrick Douglas

500

This music producer and executive helped launch the careers of artists like Usher and Kris Kross and founded So So Def Recordings in 1993.

Who is Jermaine Dupri 

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