Iconic BLACK Women
This woman was the 1st BLACK woman to own a TV Studio
Who is: Oprah
What does HBCU stand for?
What is: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This Civil Rights Activist was involved in the desegregation at Coney Island in Cincinnati and then 1st African American woman to serve on the Cincinnati City Council
Who is: Marian Spencer
Who was the 1st African American President
Who is: Barack Obama
What was originally called Negro History Week is now called
What is: Black History Month
This woman made history in 1960 by integrating an all-white school in New Orleans
Who is: Ruby Bridges
What famous court case ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
What is: Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Through what organization does UC offer a free and inclusive innovate-o-thon where groups of students of all backgrounds form a team and create and pitch a solution to a problem in 24 hours
What is: The National Society of Black Engineers
Who became the 1st African American to play in Major League Baseball
Who is: Jackie Robinson
This BLACK film franchise has these ICONIC lines such as: “How you get fired on your day off” and “You got knocked the F out”
What is: Friday
This BLACK woman because the 1st woman candidate for President
Who is: Shirley Chisholm
This university’s law school because the country’s 1st BLACK law school
What is: Howard University
What University Resource Center was founded on September 24th, 1991
What is: The African American Cultural and Research Center (AACRC)
Who was the 1st African American female tennis player who won 23 Grand Slams
Who is: Serena Williams
Who Invented the 3-way Traffic Light
Who is: Garret Morgan
This woman was the 1st African American woman to travel into space
Who is: Mae Jemison
Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver & Lewis Adams are cited to be founders of what modern day university?
What is: Tuskegee University (Tuskegee Institute)
The first African American to earn an undergraduate degree at UC
Who is: Henry Malachi Grifffin
Who was the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is: Thurgood Marshall
In this ICONIC 1999 film, a group of BLACK men & woman gather to celebrate their friendship, love lives and struggles
What is: The Best Man
This woman is the 1st BLACK female Principal dancer at The American Ballet Theatre
Who is: Misty Copeland
Fredrick D. Patterson & Mary McLeod Bethune are cited as being the founder of what? (HINT -> it helps support Black colleges and Black students)
What is: The United Negro College Fund
Who is the 1st African American woman to receive a MD from UC
Who is: Lucy Orintha Oxley
Who was the 1st African Americ an self-made millionaire?
Who is: Madame CJ Walker
Who is the self-educated astronomer, mathematician, and farmer who built a clock entirely out of wood
Who is: Benjamin Banneker