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This was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people.
Harriet Tubman
An American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Katherine Johnson
Regarded as the most prominent black inventor ever, he's credited with inventing over 50 devices in his career, including a "lubricating cup".
Elijah McCoy
He was the first African American archaeologist in the US, strongly encouraged blacks to record and publish their own histories.
John Wesley Gilbert
She won an oscar in the movie "Gone With the Wind", but was not allowed to see the national premiere.
Hattie McDaniel
The first African American to serve in the house of Congress.
Hiram Revels
I bartered bread for knowledge, taught other slaves to read, was nominated for Vice President of the USA. Who am I?
Booker T. Washington
This eminent scientist developed 300 derivative products from peanuts.
George Washington Carver
For dry cleaning, he's the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859)
She was hired by Booker T. Washington as a teacher and assistant principal of the Tuskegee Institute from 1881. In this role she also did fundraising and gave public speeches, especially about the education of African-American women.
Olivia A. Davidson
He was the first African American actor to star in a full-length film playing the title role in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Sam Lucas
He was the first African American person to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Rhodes
The name of the real "Lone Ranger"
Bass Reeves
the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.
Alice Ball
He holds the patents for inventions for a traffic light, sewing machine, gas mask, hair straightening products.
Garrett Morgan
He founded the first interracial hospital in America in 1891. The hospital served as the first school for black nurses in America.
Daniel Hale williams
This person was the first African American to play in major league baseball.
Jackie Robinson
The only California community to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans.
The City of Allensworth, by Allen Allensworth
This religious sect fraught vehemently against slavery with their earliest recorded protest in 1688.
Quakers,"The Society of Friends"
A scientist having little opportunity for education, attending a quaker school, he taught himself astronomy.
Benjamin Banneker
She was the inventor of the first home security system.
Marie Van Brittan Brown
This HSBU university has the highest success rates in the country fo getting their graduates into medical school.
Xavier University
The person was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award.
Hattie McDaniel
These Laws as part of the Confederacy tried to limit the voting rights of black citizens and prevent contact between black and white citizens in public places.
Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws
He put aside his planned historic speech and improvised his entire message.
Martin Luther King Jr., "I had a dream" speech.
Known for his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. He advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting
Ernest Everett Just
He was the inventor of the the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of induction telegraph which relied on ambient static electricity from existing telegraph lines to send messages between train stations and moving trains. His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States.
Granville Woods
This was the first African American University
Cheyney University
The name of the real Betty Boop
Esther Jones
He became the first African American lawyer in the united states to pass the bar in 1854.
Langston Hughes
The first person to refuse to give up their seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Claudette Colvin
This slave introduced Inoculation to America.
Onesimus
Born into slavery as an inventor and entrepreneur went on to become the first African American woman to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for her invention of a folding cabinet bed in 1885.
Sarah E. Goode
She was the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, having dyslexia as a child.
Octavia E. Butler
This entertainer served as a spy for the French during WWII.
Josephine Baker
This Organ law required that Blacks in Oregon – “be they free or slave – be whipped twice a year until he or she shall quit the territory.”
The infamous 1844 "Lash Law"