Entertainment
This record company played a vital role in the racial integration of popular music as an African-American owned label that achieved crossover success with the white audience.
Motown Records
After realizing that soil was being stripped of essential nutrients from repetitive cotton planting, he developed a new method for crop rotation.
George Washington Carver
This surgeon founded Provident Hospital on Chicago's south side.
Daniel Hale Williams
The dates of the Chicago Bulls 3-peats
1991 - 1993
1996 - 1998
Democrat from Illinois and the first African-American woman elected to the Senate.
Carol Moseley Braun
1992
First African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.
Halle Berry
Young player to ever win the Masters Championship. And the first winner of African or Asian heritage.
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods
A champion of social justice, with a mission to build a more interconnected Chicago on the pillars of service and education. As the founder and CEO of the city’s fastest growing social impact organization, My Block My Hood My City.
Jahmal Cole
First African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
First African American to win an Olympic individual all around gold metal.
Gabby Douglas
In what year was National Black History Month passed into law by Congress?
1986
Many black entertainers began their career at this historic landmark in Harlem.
The Apollo Theater
His research helped boost the the growth of soybeans. He also extracted a protein from soybeans that is used as a flame-retardant foam in fire extinguishers.
Percy L. Julian
This Fisk graduate invented the electrical resistor that is used in pacemakers.
Otis Boykin
First black professional American football player.
Charles Follis
Chicago born and raised singer/actress. She is also the youngest woman to ever reach EGOT status.
Jennifer Hudson
In 1984, this New Yorker became the first African-American to win the Miss America Title.
Vanessa Williams
This fourth generation famer founded the National Black Farmers Association.
John Boyd Jr.
There have been 36 presidents of the American Nurses Association. Only 3 were black, who are they?
Drs. Barbara Nichols, Beverly Malone, and Ernest Grant
These 5 black women won 3 gold metals at a single Olympic games.
Wilma Rudolph (1960)
Valerie Brisco-Hooks (1984)
Florence Griffth_Joyner (1988)
Allyson Felix (2012)
Gabby Thomas (2024)