Oh!! How They Acted
J.J. Walker played this character in the TV Show “Good Times”
J. J. Evans
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Harriet Tubman
The first African American elected to be the President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama
What was the name of the organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr.?
This African-America actress, writer, and producer starred in her own HBO primetime show, Insecure.
Issa Rae
He was the 1st Bahamian American actor to when an Academy Award for Best Actor
Sidney Poitier
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
She was the Co-Founder and Vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party
Fannie Lou Hamer
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1993 for the novel Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
He was the Creator of the cartoon “Fat Albert"
Bill Cosby
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
Before former President Barack Obama took office, this man paved the way when he ran for president as a member of the National Negro Liberty Party in 1904.
George Edwin Taylor
In 1954, the civil rights movement gained momentum when the United States Supreme Court made segregation illegal in public schools in this case.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Which 14-year-old boy was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman
The NAACP named May 20th as a day for this female entertainer
Josephine Baker Day
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating, Its just plain wrong."
Muhammad Ali
The first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
On September 3, 1957, this group Black students arrived at Central High School to begin classes but were instead met by the Arkansas National Guard (on order of Governor Orval Faubus) and a screaming, threatening mob.
Little Rock Nine
The executive Producer and Head Writer for Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and Private Practice
This Athlete and this singer starred in a music video for the movie “Space Jam”
Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan
"I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Morgan Freeman
The first African American woman elected to Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president from one of the two major political parties (1972).
Shirley Chisolm
This openly gay Black man acted as a key adviser to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, he educated King on nonviolent civil resistance tactics.
This woman introduced and developed intersectional theory and is a leading scholar of Critical Race Theory