First
Who was the first African American women to run for president of the U.S.?
1972 Shirley Chisolm
Who is Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble and one of the "big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement.
John Lewis
Who said, "The time is always right to do the right thing."
Who invented peanut butter?
George Washington Carver
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People
Who was the first African American women to become a self made millionaire?
Madam C. J. Walker
Who was the first black president of South Africa and was in prison for his anti-apartheid work?
Nelson Mandela
Who said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass
Who invented the Ironing Board?
Sarah Boone
Negro History Week is now know as?
Black History Month
Who is the first African American man to join the billionaire's club after selling his cable station?
Robert Johnson BET
Who was the African American civil rights leader in the Nation of Islam until he was assassinated in 1965?
Malcolm X
Who said, "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours, my religion, not yours, my goals, my own; get used to me."
Muhammad Ali
Who was born on a cotton farm and invented a line of African American hair care products?
Madam C. J. Walker
Hall of Famer Jackie Robison helped to established what African American owned and controlled establishment?
Freedom Bank
Who was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award in the film industry for her portrayal of a loyal slave governess in Gone With the Wind?
Hattie McDaniel
Who is the 1966 founder of the Militant Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale?
Huey P. Newton
Who said," It is important for us to understand that the phrase' Black Lives Matter' simply refers to the notion that there's a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be address. It's not meant to suggest that other lives don't matter. It's to suggest that other folks aren't experiencing this particular vulnerability."
Barack Obama
Who invented the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
Who was the first and only known female Buffalo Soldier during the Civil War?
Cathay Williams
Who is the first Black Vice President?
Kamala Harris
Who was shot by a state trooper in 1965 and his death inspired a civil rights demonstration known as the 'Bloody Sunday' and led to the Voting Rights Act.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Who said, "If they don't give you a sit at the table, bring a folding chair."
Shirley Chisholm
Who invented the storage, processing, and shipment of blood plasma?
Charles Richard Drew
Who is the most Grammy-nominated artist in the history of the awards with 76 nominations and 26 awards?
Quincy Jones