Sports
The first African American major league baseball player
Who was Jackie Robinson?
They refused to give up their seat on a bus
Who was Rosa Parks?
The first black Disney princess
Who is Tiana?
This person came up with 300 different uses for peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver?
Federal holiday celebrating the freedom of all enslaved people
What is Juneteenth?
The first man to win the heavyweight boxing title three times
Six-year-old girl who desegregated William Frantz Elementary School
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The first black woman to win a Grammy
Who was Ella Fitzgerald?
The first African American woman in entomology; nicknamed the "Termite Lady"
The first black Nobel Prize winner
Who was Ralph Bunche?
This person won 23 Grand Slams; considered one of the best tennis players of all time
Who is Serena Williams?
The year the NAACP was founded
1909
The three main African American women in Hidden Figures
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
The first African American woman to travel into space
The first female self-made millionaire in America
Who was Madam C.J. Walker?
The first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games
Who was Jesse Owens?
The Supreme Court case that made segregation of public schools illegal
The first African American to win an Oscar
Who was Hattie McDaniels?
This person's unconsented donation of her cells led to the development of the polio vaccine
Who was Henrietta Lacks?
The first African American woman in Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
NFL fullback who played on the Cleveland Browns who was invited to the Pro Bowl every year he was active
Who is Jim Brown?
Landmark decision of US Supreme Court that upheld segregation after this man refused to sit in the train car for black people (2 answers)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson? Who was Homer Plessy?
This person was the first African American to star in their own show called _____ (2 answers)
Who was Ethel Waters? What is The Ethel Waters Show?
This person performed the first successful open heart surgery
Who was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
The writer of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?