AFRICAN AMERICAN 1STS
Spending 18 Days in outer space, this Astronaut became the first African American to perform a Extra-Vehicular activity on february 9, 1995
Bernard Harris Jr.
Working closely with Thomas Edison, this black inventor patented or Created the Filament for the lightbulb in 1881.
Lewis Latimer
Invented the Gas Mask, traffic signal
Garrett Morgan
He became the First African American to play in Major League Baseball, breaking the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.
Jackie Robinson
He was the 1st African American to serve as the 96th United States Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
Actress and Radio performer became the 1st African American Woman to perform on the radio in 1920's as well as the 1st African American win an oscar in 1940.
Hattie McDaniel
First African American Professional Nurse in the United States in 1879
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
One of the most famous African American Inventors known for inventing the Remote Control.
Dr. Joseph Jackson
She was the 1st African American Singer to perform in the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and was invited by President Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor to perform at the White House, the first African American ever to receive this honor.
Marian Anderson
American abolitionist and political activist, made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The First African American owned and operated Newspaper in the United States.
Freedom's Journal
This woman was an African American Physician and author most known for her " Book of Medical Discourses" in 1883, which was the first Medical publication written by an African American.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
After suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss this African American Inventor, Entrepreneur, politician, and social activist created a line of African-American hair care products in 1905.
Madam CJ Walker
This African American Athlete began to sit during the playing of the U.S. national anthem prior to games, rather than stand as a protest against racial injustice and systematic oppression in the country, which in turn helped to give more African American Athletes courage to use their Platform to speak out on Racial injustice.
Colin Kaepernick
She was an African American politician, educator and Author who in 1968 became the first Black Woman elected to the United States Congress representing New Yorks 12 congressional For 7 terms from 1969-1983
Shirley Anita Chisholm
She is the first African American to complete a residency in Ophthmalogy as well as the first African American Female doctor to receive a patent for inventing the Laser Probe for cataract treatment in 1986
Patricia Bath
This male surge, professor and scientist is responsible for Americas first Major Bloodbank and became the first African American doctor to be chosen as an examiner for the American board of Surgery.
Charles Richard Drew
She was an African-American inventor, becoming the originator of the home security system in 1966, along with her husband Albert Brown, a patent was granted in 1969.
Marie Van Brittan Brown
African American with the Most Grammy Award Wins year to date with 28 awards?
Quincy Jones
Defeating Frank Rizzo in the 1938 democratic primary this mans unorthodox campaign consisted of Riding Garbage trucks to greet and check on city sanitation condition as well as greeting rush hour traffic commuters. His perseverance helped him to become the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia.
Wilson Goode
He was the first African American Graduate and Dean of Harvard University School Of Law.
Richard Theodore Greener
An African American surgical technician that was once classified and paid as a janitor but played a major part in the development of a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940's.
Vivien Thomas
Lonnie Johnson is an African American Inventor whose creation has grossed over 73 million dollars in revenue. What is the toy that He created?
Nerf Super Soaker Water Gun
Name the Writers of the Negro National Anthem
James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamond Johnson
This document declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
It was signed by what president in what year?
The Emancipation Proclaimation
signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863