Blacks in Media
Blacks in Politics
Influential Black Women
Civil Rights
Blacks in Literature
100
This actress/singer played the pre-teen character "Penny" on the sitcom Good Times.
Janet Jackson
100
This man made history when he defeated Sen. John McCain in the general election on November 4, 2008 and was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009.
Barack Obama
100
This influential woman was born as Isabella Baumfree on the Hardenbergh plantation in upstate New York, escaped to freedom and is renowned for her impactful speeches: “Ain’t I a woman” and “The Truth Calls Me”.
Sojourner Truth
100
This man founded the NAACP.
W.E.B. Dubois
100
This poet became famous for works such as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Let America be America Again".
Langston Hughes
200
This song writer and pianist was the first African-American to host a national television program.
Nat “King” Cole (The Nat King Cole Show, 1956)
200
This woman was the first African American Secretary of State.
Condeleezza Rice
200
This woman was is the first black woman to travel into space.
Mae Jemison
200
This woman, who recently died on 2006, took her famous pastor husband's place as the head of the civil rights movement after his death. She was not only an African American activist, she also fought for the rights of women and the LGBT community.
Coretta Scott King
200
This author wrote The Color Purple. The book was later turned into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
Alice Walker
300
The number of black actors/actresses who have won Oscars (Only Leading Roles).
5 - Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, 1963), Denzel Washington (Training Day, 2001), Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball, 2001), Janie Foxx (Ray, 2004), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, 2006),
300
This man was not only a Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from the 5th district and a pastor but also the 14th United States Ambassador to the UN.
Andrew Young
300
This influential black woman was an early civil rights leader with her husband Ferdinand L. Barnett and best known for her work during the women’s suffrage movement as an influential journalist and newspaper editor.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
300
The year in which Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) occurred in.
1964
300
This Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote The Autobiography of Malcom X and Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Alex Haley
400
Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, produced a number of famous movies. This is the one movie did he actually directed.
Mahogany (1975)
400
This man received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 after mediating the Arab-Israeli truce.
Ralph J. Bunche
400
Which woman was the first black women elected to Congress, the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination?
Shirley Chisholm
400
This woman was a civil rights activist, educator and, when Rosa Parks was arrested, founded the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott.
Jo Ann Robinson
400
Phillis Wheatley's interested in literature led her to write and publish this collection of poetry in 1773.
Poems on Various Subjects
500
This is the film in which Quvenzhane Wallis (age 9) act in, making her the youngest actress to receive the Best Actress Award at the 2013 Critics' Choice Awards.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
500
On February 25, 1870, this man became the first African American Senator in the United States (Hint: He represented Mississippi).
Hiram Revels
500
In 1965, this woman became the first African-American Ambassador of the United States (Hint: Ambassador to Luxembourg).
Patricia Roberts Harris
500
The number of Civil Rights Acts.
8 - Civil Rights Act of 1866, Civil Rights Act of 1871, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Civil Rights Act of 1960, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968, Civil Rights Act of 1991
500
This author was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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