The Arts
Who is Beyonce?
These sisters have won a combined 30 Grand Slam titles in tennis.
Venus and Serena Williams
The first Black, South Asian, and woman vice president of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris?
The first Black woman to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
She is the first black female to host a TV show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This was the first Black woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
At the age of 16, she won two gold medals in the 2012 Olympics.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
She was the first black female judge in America.
Who is Jane Bolin?
This African American Woman was the first black woman to become a neurosurgeon. In 1987 she went on to become the chief of neurosurgery at the Children's hospital of Michigan.
Who is Alexa Cody?
The first Black woman to take home Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
This American novelist, short story writer, folklorists and anthropologists is best known for her contributions to African American literature; her portrayal of racial struggles in the American South.
After overcoming childhood polio, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
She was the first Black woman to win against a White man in a court of law.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This biologist worked to discover which compounds were the most damaging to cancer cells.
Who is Jewel Plummer Cobb?
This was Harriet Tubman's code name in the Underground Railroad.
What is "Moses"?
The first African American performer to win an Academy Award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
She was the first African American to win a Grand Slam title.
Who is Althea Gibson?
She became the first American American woman to be appointed United States Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
She calculated the precise trajectories that would let NASA's Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This is the year of Rosa Parks' bus boycott.
1955
She wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Beecher Stowe?
This WNBA pioneer and multiple champion is most noted for being the first woman to dunk in the NBA.
Who is Lisa Leslie?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President and the first African American woman to be elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This psychologists alongside her husband Kenneth Clark founded the Northside Center for Child Development, in Harlem. She is also well known for her influential "doll test" study in the 1954 Brown V. Board of Education case.
Who is Mamie Phipps Clark?
This entertainer served as a spy for the French during WWII.
Who is Josephine Baker?