Inventors & Pioneers
Athletes
Educators
Activists/Government
Entertainers
100
She was the first African American female millionaire with her own revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame C. J. Walker
100

He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. He is credited with making the NBA internationally known

Who is Michael Jordan? 


100
This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison
100
This famous African American woman refused to give up her seat to a white man which helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks
100
She is ranked as the 2nd best-selling female artist of the 21st century, with record sales of more than 37 million dollars
Who is Beyonce Knowles
200
This famous African American inventor developed peanut better and 400 plant products
Who is George Washington Carver
200
He said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating."
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
There were the first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine
200
This Supreme Court decision said that segregated public schools were not really equal and should be integrated
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
She is the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and she is also the first African American woman billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey
300
This African American woman invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see
Who is Dr. Patricia E. Bath
300
He is the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
She said, "Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
300

First African American General in the U.S. Air Force. This man opened up the military for African Americans by fighting segregation both on and off the battlefield. Led and commanded the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of 1,000 Black Pilots during WWII

Who is Benjamin O. Davis Jr? 


300
He is known as the "King of Pop." His "Thriller" albulm has sold more records than any other in history
Who is Michael Jackson
400
She was known as a pioneer in aviation and was the first African American woman to obtain a pilot's license and fly a plane
Who is Bessie Coleman
400
She was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph
400

Mother, lesbian, Black woman, and activist. This poet, essayist, and autobiographer was most known for creating literature and passionate writing about lesbian feminism and racial issues. Her most famous poem, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" gives insight into the social structure created, resulting in systematically unequal opportunities for Black Americans in the US. 

Who is Audre Lorde? 


400
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for U.S. President
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
She is the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress
Who is Halle Berry
500
This famous African American inventor invented the traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan
500
He is the first player in NFL history to win both Rookie of the Year and the MVP Award in the same season (1957)
Who is Jim Brown
500
She is an African American woman who worked to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and she was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
500

Former Black Panther Leader, this person helped from the Free Breakfast for Children Program in Los Angeles as well as the first Legal Aid Program and Free Busing to Prisons Program. 

Who is Elaine Brown? 

500
He is the founder of the Motown Record Corporation
Who is Berry Gordy
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