Inventions
He was born enslaved and went on to become one of the most prominent scientists and inventors of his time, as well as a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. He devised over 100 products using one major crop — the peanut — including dyes, plastics and gasoline.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The location where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
What is the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee?
Who are Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
This African American woman did not give up her seat on the bus because she was tired, she was tired of giving in.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Invented a line of African American hair products after suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss. One of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
Spurred by growing racial violence in the early 20th century, and particularly by 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, a group of African American leaders joined together to form this new permanent civil rights organization.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
He was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and produced countless novels, plays, and poems about racial equality and working-class pride
Who is Langston Hughes?
She is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States ?
Who is Vice President Kamala Harris?
This event was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
She conducted a number of successful theoretical physics experiments and made breakthrough scientific research that enabled others to invent the fax machine, touch-tone phone, fiber optic cells, solar cells and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson?
On April 29, 1992, the first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of this African American.
Who is Rodney King?
This man was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
She became the first Black student to go to an otherwise all-white elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This occurred in an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from these to places.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
With only an elementary school education, he began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine and traffic signal, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks.
What is Garrett Morgan?
In July 1777, this state became the first colony to ban slavery.
His creative endeavors were astoundingly versatile. He performed as a jazz pianist, composed musical scores, wrote 15 books and co-founded Essence magazine.
Who is Gordon Parks?
In January 2022, the U.S. Mint revealed that this woman is the newest person featured on the U.S. quarter, making her the first Black woman to appear on the coin.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This tragic event perpetrated on Black Wall Street that has been described as "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
He was a pioneering chemist who was not allowed to attend high school but went on to earn his Ph.D. His research at academic and corporate institutions led to the chemical synthesis of drugs to treat glaucoma and arthritis, and although his race presented challenges at every turn, he is regarded as one of the most influential chemists in American history.
Who is Percy Julian?
In 1976, 50 years after the first celebration, this president officially expanded Negro History Week to Black History Month.
Who is Gerald Ford?
In 1908, after winning the 4 x 400 meter relay, he became the first African American to win gold in the Olympics.
Who is John Taylor?
Who was the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives. She was elected in 1968 and represented the state of New York. She broke ground again four years later in 1972 when she was the first major party black candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This is a 156-year-old holiday celebrating the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery in the U.S., as a federal holiday.
What is Juneteenth?