Civil Rights Movement
This leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King?
He was the first African American elected as President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This baseball player broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This poet and activist wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and became a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
A slave who became an abolitionist leader, orator, and the author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Who is John Lewis?
This African American served as the first Black U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
Known as "The Greatest," this boxer was also a civil rights activist.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This filmmaker directed Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Spike Lee?
I was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard and co-founded the NAACP in 1909.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This man was instrumental in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott alongside Rosa Parks.
Who is E.D. Nxon?
He became the first African American U.S. Senator in 1870 during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Hiram Revels?
He became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.
Who is Ernie Davis?
He was a groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker who documented African American life in The Learning Tree.
Who is Gordon Parks?
I was a lawman in the Old West and one of the first African American U.S. Deputy Marshals.
Who is Bass Reeves?
He founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 to fight racial inequality through nonviolent protest
Who is James Farmer?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This tennis player became the first Black man to win a Grand Slam title and was later known for his humanitarian work.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
Known as "The King of Ragtime," this composer revolutionized American music.
Who is Scott Joplin?
I was an inventor and agricultural scientist who promoted crop rotation and developed hundreds of uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This civil rights leader founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Ralph Abernathy?
He served as the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, in 1967.
Who is Carl Stokes?
Who is John Taylor?
This inventor developed the first patented improvements to the light bulb in 1881.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
I was the first African American pilot to serve in the U.S. military during World War I.
Who is Eugene Bullard?