A.A. Firsts
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods
This antislavery activist is famous for saying, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman
Famous agricultural botanist who invented peanut butter (among many other things) and was admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
George Washington Carver
This 1954 Supreme Court decision decreed that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and that all public schools should be racially integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Released by Epic Records in 1991, this hit song by Michael Jackson attempted to raise awareness about race and equality.
What is Black or White
The first African American to serve as the 65th United States Secretary of State under former President G.W. Bush.
Who is Colin Powell
One of the most notable speakers of the Civil Rights Movement and winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent demonstrations during the Jim Crow era, this man continues to be remembered for saying, "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
An American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut, she became the first black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This American president passed The Civil Rights Acts (1964) to "end" racial discrimination, and the Voting Rights Act (1965) to "prevent" voter suppression in southern states.
Who was President Lyndon B. Johnson?
In 1990, she began her career as a daytime talkshow host but is now best known as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She has created Harpo Productions, O Magazine, hosts the world's largest book club, and her charities have donated over $400M to help children in need around the world.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The first man of mixed race elected to be president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama!
In her poem Still I Rise, she wrote "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
She calculated launching and landing trajectories for NASA's Apollo missions, received 4 honorary doctorates and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award.
Katherine Goble Johnson
Four days after Rosa Parks was infamously arrested, African Americans led a strike and refused to ride city buses in this Alabama city to protest segregated seating.
What is Montgomery?
Born in Texas and ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over $37. Some albums include "I am Sasha Fierce" and "Lemonade."
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Her resume includes, "Beloved," "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye").
Who is Toni Morrison
This pugilist (formerly known as Cassius Clay) is best known for never losing a fight and saying this: "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
In 1951, her cancer cells were taken and harvested without her consent (permission). Today, her "HeLa cell line" is considered the “gold standard” in biological research because the cells are easily cultivated, cloned and sold.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This organization was founded in 1909 to stop violence against people of color and advance justice for African Americans.
What was The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Born in Brooklyn, he first gained fame as a graffiti artist with SAMO ("same-old") but quickly grew as a neo-expressionist gallery artist known for his drawings of crowns, heroes and saints. Even after his death in 1988, his art continues to influence the world.
Who was Basquiat?
The year in which Africans were first kidnapped from their motherland, shipped across the Atlantic and sold as "chattle" to work for American landowners.
When was 1619
Patrisse Cullors once said, "There is an entirely new generation of black people on the front lines for justice, dignity and respect."
What is the name of the global organization she co-founded in 2013 to eradicate white supremacy, combat violence against Blacks and celebrate Black joy?
What is the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement?
Born in 1867, she was an inventor and self-trained pharmacist who became the world's very first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary hair and beauty products for black men and women.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
This racially-motivated attack on a Baptist church in 1963 caused the death of four girls in Birmingham, Alabama.
What was the Alabama Church Bombing or the16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
This American visual artist is best known for his highly naturalistic portraits of African Americans in heroic poses often found in the works of the "Old Master" paintings.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?