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She was the first African-American and woman to bring home four Olympic gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single game along with a bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Who is Simone Biles?
This African American artist made Grammy history as the first female solo winner to take home Best Rap Album.
Who is Cardi B?
She was the first woman of color attorney general in California and is the second woman to be elected a U.S. senator.
Who is Kamala Harris?
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what right did African-Americans gain in the United States?
What are Voting rights.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).
Who was the first African American female to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Condoleezza Rice.
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State
In 2016, she became the first African American to earn an Olympic gold medal in individual swimming.
Who is Simone Manuel?
This African American artist won Song of the Year, marking the first time that a rap song has won the award in the 61-year history of the Grammys.
Who is Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)?
In 2016, President Obama appointed the first woman and African American to lead the Library of Congress.
Who is Carla Hayden?
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who became the first artist in history to have four of the top 20 best selling albums in a single year in the United States.
Who is Michael Jackson.
In this year, Colin Kaepernick took a kneel during the national anthem in protest of unjust police killings of black Americans.
What is 2016?
She is the first African-American to lead programming at a major broadcast network and helped develop many of ABC’s most successful shows including “Scandal”, “Quantico”, and “How to Get Away With Murder”.
Who is Channing Dungey?
On this year, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington, D.C., a mecca housing artifacts and art chronicling the struggles and triumphs of blacks in the U.S.
What is 2016?
Who 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.
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker.
He was the first African-American Grandmaster in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. He has a popular chess instruction app, has taught celebrities such as Jay Z and Will Smith, and has partnered with several organizations to bring chess to students in low-income neighborhoods.
Who is Maurice Ashley?
In 2012, she was the first black woman to win the Best Director award at Sundance Film Festival. She was also the first African-American woman to lead a $100 million, live-action feature film "A Wrinkle in Time".
Who is Ava DuVernay?
In 2001, she became the first African-American president of an Ivy League university, and was also Brown University’s first female president.
Who is Ruth Simmons?
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Who is W.E.B Du Bios.
Founded in Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. The only African American among the organization's executives, Du Bois was made director of publications and research and in 1910 established the official journal of the NAACP, The Cris.
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till.
In 1996, this African-American woman became the first player to be signed by the WNBA.
Who is Sheryl Swoopes?
In 2001, they became the first African-American billionaire.
Who is Robert Johnson?
He is the owner of Black Entertainment Television.
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing or 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.
Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity" the explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing marked a turning point in the United States during the civil rights movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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.
He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.