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On April 15, 1947, he was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the Unites States.
Who is Jackie Robinson
He was one of the most significant figures within the American Black nationalist movement. Many of the ideas he articulated, like race pride and self-defense, became ideological mainstays of the Black Power movement that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s.
Who is Malcolm X
She was “the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
She was a civil rights activist, writer, poet, singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director.
Who is Maya Angelou
At six years old, she was the first black student to integrate the William Frantz Elementary school.
Who is Ruby Bridges
This African American athlete is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
She was an activist, an educator and an author who gained an international reputation during her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970-72.
Who is Angela Davis
Despite being born into slavery, he became an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed), sweet potatoes and soybeans.
Who is George Washington Carver
In 2015, she became the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland
Born into slavery in the Arkansas, he became the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi.
Who is Bass Reeves
This athlete was known the first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship on 3 separate occasions and successfully defended this title 19 times.
Who is Muhammad Ali
He was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass
This scientist developed improved techniques for blood storage and transfusion.
Who is Charles Drew
Despite being born blind, he became a touring musical phenomenon.
Who is Blind Tom Wiggins
She became the First Woman and First Black US Vice President in 2021
Who is Kamala Harris
She was a tennis player who was the first Black athlete to compete in international tennis.
Who is Althea Gibson
She helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks
This man invented the traffic light signals, the gas mask and the clutch for auto-transmissions.
Who is Garrett Morgan
He was an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Who is Georg Shirley
He was the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president, elected on November 4, 2008.
Who is Barrack Obama
She was a six-time Olympic medalist, and one of track and field’s most decorated athletes. who also won four world championships.
Who is Jackie Joyner-Kersee
She was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. But she was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women’s suffrage supporter.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This Inventor holds more than 80 U.S. patents, is an engineer by training, has worked on both the stealth bomber project for the Air Force and the Galileo space probe for NASA, but it's his invention of the Super Soaker toy that is perhaps his most endearing claim to fame.
Who is Lonnie Johnson
She was an American contralto who performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals.
Who is Marian Anderson
These Airmen were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II.
Who are the Tuskeegee Airmen