African American Firsts
This inventor developed peanut butter and 400 plant based products.
Who is George Washington Carver?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
He was the first African-American golf champion to tour the PGA circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was one of the co-founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a founder of SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee).
Who is Ella Baker?
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
"I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She is ranked as the second best selling female artist of the 20th Century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
This Supreme Court decision challenged the premise that public schools should be separate but equal (court case and year).
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education, 1954?
He received a PhD from Harvard in 1895.
Who is WEB DuBois?
He was the first African-American to have his likeness on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this Earth."
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She won 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
During WWII she was an intelligence liaison (spy) and served as an ambulance driver for the French Resistance. She was later awarded the French Legion of Honor.
Who is Josephine Baker?
After a life filled with activism in which she was one of the founders of the NAACP, at the age of 86 she filed a court case that later led to the integration of public facilities in Washington, D.C.
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
This doctor is credited with blood storage techniques to enhance the capability of giving blood.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
"I never lose. I either win or learn."
Who is Nelson Mandela?
He was the heavy weight champion of the world for 11 years straight.
Who is Joe Louis or the "Brown Bomber?"
A captain/pilot on a Confederate steamboat, with his family and other enslaved Africans on board, he steered the steamship Planter across Union lines. The ship was later donated to the Union cause. This person later became a Reconstruction era congressman and lived in the home of his former enslaver.
Who is Robert Smalls?
Ironically these brave Black soldiers were enlisted in the pursuit of the American Frontier, to "crush American Indians, the first victims of white racism."
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers? (Ninth and Tenth Calvaries).
He was the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Congress from New York.
Who is Adam Clayton Powell?
"Just because we have the best hammer doesn't mean that every problem is a nail."
Who is Barack Obama?
This NBA star has the record for the most championships over the course of his career.
Who is Bill Russell? (11 championships in 13 years!)
Was the first African-American to run for president.
Who is George Edwin Taylor? He ran as a member of the National Negro Liberty Party and therefore not as a a mainstream candidate.
One of the first African-American scholars to advance the idea of intersectionality.