STEM
What black astronaut died tragically on the 1986 Challenger Mission
Dr. Ronald E. McNair
Who’s the 1st black baseball player to hit 62 home runs?
Sammie Sosa
Name all the A&T 4
David Richmond
Franklin McCain
Ezell Blair, Jr. (Jibreel Khazan)
Joseph McNeil
Who was the 1st African-American to win oscar?
Hattie McDaniel
Black man falsely accused of rape in To kill a Mockingbird
Tom Robinson
Who invented the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
Who has the most grand slam wins in women's tennis?
Serena Williams - 23
First African American governor in US history
L. Douglas Wilder - Virginia 1989
Whoopi Goldberg played the wife of slain civil rights leader Medger Evers in what movie?
Mississippi Burning
Who wrote the poem Mother to Son?
Langston Hughes
Who invented the 1st Railroad Telegraph System
Granville T. Woods
Who was the youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavy weight championship of the world?
Mike Tyson - 19 years old in 1986
What Brown v. Board of Education lawyer later became a Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Who played Dorthy in the Broadway musical The Wiz?
Stephanie Mills
Who co-wrote Malcolm X’s autobiography?
Alex Haley
Who figured out the paths to make a spacecraft orbit Earth and to land on the Moon?
Katherine Johnson
Who was the first professional black golfer to reach 1 million dollars in earnings
Lee Elder
When was the NAACP founded?
February 12, 1909
What is Spike Lee’s 1st name
Shelton
What is Zora Neale Hurston’s most famous poem?
Their Eyes were Watching God
Who was the 1st black astronaut accepted by NASA in 1967?
Major Robert H. Lawrence
What is the Harlem Globetrotter’s theme song
Sweet Georgia Brown
Who was an advocate for separate nations for African-Americans?
Marcus Garvey
Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for Best Actor in what 1963 Movie?
Lilies of the Field
Where did Maya Angelou grow up?
St. Louis, MI