African American Firsts
This person was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods
This person said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.'
Who is Harriet Tubman
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This woman is famous for her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus, which sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time,” and was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell
This person said "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
This Supreme Court case decreed that a slave was his master's property and that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This celebrity 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
This person was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This person said "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
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
This person 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
This woman became the first African American female millionaire because 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
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali
This was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for the Presidency.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
This person 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.
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till
This is the year the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.
What is 1619
This person said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
This person 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