African American Doctors & Medical Professionals
This African American woman’s immortal cells, known as HeLa cells, have been used in medical research for decades.
Who is Henrietta Lacks ?
This leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was known for his work in voter registration and later served as a U.S. congressman.
Who is John Lewis?
This woman was the first Black vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmett Till ?
He was the first surgeon to successfully perform open-heart surgery?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
This Black female is an American political activist, professor, and author who was an active member in the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party. She isa Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Who is Angela Davis ?
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm ?
Who said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"?
Who is Harriet Tubman ?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell ?
This doctor revolutionized medicine by improving the storage of blood plasma.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew ?
This civil rights leader co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she also testified before this political event, exposing voter suppression and racial injustice in Mississippi, and famously said, "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer ?
This Supreme Court justice was the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
Who is Shirley Chisholm, first Black congresswoman?
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619 ?
This physician and astronaut was the first Black woman to travel into space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by a group of social reformers – name at least one of them
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Mary White Ovington ?
Elected in November 1966, he became the first Black Senator in Congress in 86 years, when he was popularly elected to serve from the state of Massachusetts.
Who is Edward Brooke?
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
Who is Malcolm X ?
In this landmark case in 1954 during the Civil Rights Movement, the Supreme Court prohibited racial segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
The first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S., this doctor paved the way for future physicians and made significant contributions to medicine.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
This African American male was the key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors, especially on techniques of nonviolent resistance.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
He became the first African-American Congressman, elected to the US senate in 1870. born in North Carolina, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain for the United States Army. He later relocated to Mississippi and served in the state Senate.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Who said in their letter addressed to one of the sitting Supreme Court Justices?
"I wish you well as a thoughtful and worthy successor to Justice Marshall in the ever ongoing struggle to assure equal justice under law for all persons."
Who is A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit?
In 2018 which African American artist won a Pulitzer Prize?
Who is Kendrick Lamar?