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Actors/Singers
100
He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions).
Garrett Morgan
100
On December 1, 1955, a Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white man. When she refused, she was fined and arrested. This incident prompted a city-wide bus boycott, which eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional.
Who is Rosa Parks
100
He is the first African-American president of the USA, he was born in Hawaii.
Who is Barack Obama
100
She is an American R&B singer and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004.
Who is Fantasia Barrino
200
She was an African-American who developed many beauty and hair care products that were extremely popular. She started her cosmetics business in 1905. Her first product was a scalp treatment that used petrolatum and sulphur. She also invented the straightening comb. She was a self-made millionaire.
Who is Madame C. J. Walker
200
She escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
He was the first black man allowed to play major league baseball. On April 11, 1947, He played his first major league baseball game (he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees). He played with the Dodgers for 10 years. He played in six World Series and was the first African-American in the Baseball Hall of Fame (in 1962).
Who is Jackie Robinson
200
He was the first African-American justice of the US Supreme Court. He was on the team of lawyers in the historic Supreme Court trial concerning school desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Who is Thurgood Marshall
200
This beautiful actress was the first to win an Academy Award for best actress in the movie Monster's Ball. She also played in Catwoman, and X- Men.
Who is Halle Berry
300
He developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans. Before this, the only main crop in the South was cotton. The products that he invented included a rubber substitute, adhesives, foodstuffs, dyes, pigments, and many other products.
Who is George Washington Carver
300
She was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for civil and human rights. After becoming a preacher, she campaigned for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights. During the US Civil War, she helped black Union soldiers obtain supplies.
Who is Sojourner Truth
300
Professional golf player he was the youngest man (at the age of 21) and the first African-American to win the U.S. Masters.
Who is Tiger Woods
300
She was the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress. She was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives. She served in Congress for seven terms, from January 3, 1969, until January 3, 1983. She was the first African-American woman to run for a major-party presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
300
She was the first African American to be invited to perform at the White House in 1939.She was also the first black person, American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955.
Who is Marian Anderson
400
The potato chip was invented in 1853 by this man. He was a Native American/African American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. French fries were popular at the restaurant and one day a diner complained that the fries were too thick.
Who is George Crum.
400
He was a civil rights activist, professor, writer, and poet. He was freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (when it went into effect in the South, in 1865). He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, and the National Negro Business League.
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
She is a gymnast who is best known as the first African American to win the individual all around event. She also won a team Gold Medal for the U.S. at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Who is Gabby Douglas.
400
He was an abolitionist, orator and writer who fought against slavery and for women's rights. He was the first African-American citizen appointed to high ranks in the U.S. government.
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
She is a talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. Her show was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She was the first black woman to become a billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
500
On July 6, 1971 he was awarded a patent, with George H. Miley, for a gamma-electrical cell. Additionally, the patent cites the cell's function as a detector with self power. This patent has often led to him being cited as the inventor of the cellular phone.
Who is Henry T. Sampson
500
He was a writer, historian, leader and one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). He was a gifted student who became a reporter for the New York Globe when he was 15 years old.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
500
He was one of the world's greatest track and field athletes. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, He won 4 gold medals (in the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter relay and the long jump) , set two Olympic records, and tied another
Who is Jesse Owens
500
He was the first person to die for the American Revolutionary cause. He was buried with honor in the Park Street cemetery in Boston. He has a day named after him which was started by black abolitionists in 1858; in 1888, the a Monument of him was built in the Boston Common.
Who is Crispus Attucks
500
This man is an actor, a producer, & a host. He is the first African American male to host the game show, Family Feud. He has a syndicated television show, a talk show, and a radio show.
Who is Steve Harvey
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