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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
Known as an entrepreneur and philanthropist in 1910, Sarah Breedlove settled in Indianapolis and built a hair and manicure salon training school and factory. She was known as the first self-made African-American millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African Americans seeking a medical education and careers as physicians and surgeons was limited to a few black medical colleges. First College of Medicine was established in 1867 in Washington, D.C. and the other was established in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee.
What is Howard University College of Medicine and Meharry Medical College
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
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Founded in 1975 at Purdue University by six undergraduates (known as the Chicago Six). One of the largest student-run organizations in the US, centered on improving the recruitment/retention of Black and other minority engineers. Provide opportunities for personal/professional success, and remains unmatched by any other organization to date.
What is the National Society of Black Engineers
He was the first neurosurgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins attached at the back of the head and now serves as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Currently serving as Surgeon General under President Trump and also served as the Indiana State Health Commissioner from 2014 – 2017.
Who is Dr. Jerome Adams
The first African-American to complete a residency in ophthalmology in 1973 and the First African-American female physician to receive a patent for a medical invention related to cataract surgery and include the Laserphaco Probe, which revolutionized the industry in the 1980s.
Who is Patricia Bath
NASA's first black female engineer, working 34 years at NASA. She was also one of the 3 women portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures”.
Who is Mary Jackson
Which 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
This park in Indianapolis, Indiana, memorializes the location where Sen. Robert Kennedy spoke the night Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. A poignant sculpture on the park grounds is a moving tribute to this difficult time in our history.
What is the Dr. Martin Luther King Park and Landmark for Peace
This chemist was the 1920 class valedictorian of Indiana’s DePauw University and discovered how to extract sterols from soybean oil and synthesize the hormones progesterone and testosterone. He was also lauded for his synthesized medical compounds to treat rheumatoid arthritis, glaucoma and devised a fire retardant from soybeans.
Who is Dr. Percy Julian
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
This NY City native was the first African American to earn a patent, which was awarded on March 3, 1821 for his discovery of a process called dry-scouring, which was the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning.
Who is Thomas L. Jennings
A national historic district located in Pleasant Township, Steuben County, Indiana. This Lake Resort vacation community district encompasses 27 one-story cottages. Developed between 1928 and 1950 as a vacation resort for middle class African-Americans. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
What is Fox Lake
An American microbiologist and professor, who taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African-American department chair of the school.
Who is Harold Amos
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Who 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