African American Firsts
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger' was said by this famous woman.
Who is Harriet Tubman
Beginning with its theme song, sung by Solange and destiny's child, this animated Disney tv show featuring a black family was a hit of its time.
What is the Proud Family
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
This famous civil rights leader said "the time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Who loves orange soda?" This goofy duo got into a variety of sticky situations in the 90s.
What is Kenan and Kel?
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
These twins, separated at birth, found each other in a store by confusing the owner and never looked back.
what is sister sister
He was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.".
Who is Muhammad Ali
Set during the 1980s, this young man endured a rough upbringing with his younger siblings always getting the best of him.
what is Everybody Hates Chris
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
The first Africans were brought to American to work as slaves in this year.
What is 1619
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
Set in Cali, this group of friends dealt with topics like dating, sexuality, parenthood, interracial relationships, struggles of being black in the 21st century and other current events.
what is girlfriends.
He was the first African American U.S Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver