African American First
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Who is Harriet Tubman
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barack Obama
Refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free"
Who is Frederick Douglas?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, & Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Ranked as the best-selling African American female artist of the 21st century?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Who is Malcolm X?
Became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
"You don't lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down"
Who is Mohammad Ali?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Fourteen-year-old African-American boy that was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi?
Who is Emmet Till?
The year the first enslaved Africans were brought Virginia.
What is 1619?
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman
Was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
African American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957
Who is the Little Rock Nine?
Made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?