Activits and Government
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisolm
famous woman was the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and is the first African American billionaire.
Oprah Winfrey
Who became the 1st African American female millionaire with her revolutionary hair products?
Madame CJ Walker
Who was the 1st African Americam golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Associaltion (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
Who was the 1st African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
What famous African American woman refused to give up her seat to a white man and helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
Known as the King of Pop.
Michael Jackson
What famouse African American Inventor developed peanut butter and 400 plant products?
George Washington Carver
The first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympic Games?
Wilma Rudoph
Which author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Toni Morrison
Who was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State?
The first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress
Halle Berry
What famous African American inventor invented the traffic signal?
This Chicago Bulls player is made the NBA internationally known.
Michael Jordan
Who said, “Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise”?
Maya Angelou
who was a prominent African American minister and the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
Martin Luther King Jr
Founder of the Motown Records
Barry Gordy
The first black students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock.
Little Rock Nine
The first player in the NFL history to win both Rookie of the year and and the MVP Awards in the same season (1957).
Jim Brown
The famous African American woman who worked to improved educational opportunities for African Americans.
Mary McLeod Bethune