Inventors
Pioneers
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

This group of former enslave and freedmen joined a military organization, to help fight in the Civil War and continued fighting into WW1

Buffalo Soldiers

100
He is the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
100

She is the grandmother of Juneteenth

Opal Lee

100

She was the most popular female jazz singer. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra

Ella Fitzgerald

200

He made the first wooden clock in American and the father of the Almanac

Benjamin Banneker

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
This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison
200
This famous man was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State
Who is General Colin Powell
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
She was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph
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

The date when Federal troops arrived in Galveston, TX to announce slaves were free

June 19, 1865

300

She was a singer, actress, and Civil Rights Activist who first established herself as an accomplished live singer and then transitioned into film work. She signed with MGM studios and became known as one of the top African American performers of her time, seen in such films as Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather

Lena Horn

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

The First African American Woman to serve as a Buffalo Soldier

Cathay Williams

400
There were the first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine
400
This Supreme Court decision said that segregated public schools were not really equal and should be integrated
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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

a medical doctor, minister and jazz musician responsible for igniting the fight to make Juneteenth a federal holiday

Dr. Ronald Myers

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 and an HBCU in Florida

Who is Mary McLeod Bethune

500
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for U.S. President
Who is Shirley Chisholm
500
He is the founder of the Motown Record Corporation
Who is Berry Gordy
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