Black Firsts
The first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This groundbreaking 2018 superhero film featured an African-inspired kingdom called Wakanda.
What is Black Panther?
She led over a dozen missions on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This music style was born in New Orleans and made famous by Louis Armstrong.
What is jazz?
“Ain’t I a woman?”
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The first Black woman Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This movement emphasized pride in African heritage and led to the rise of Black Power in the '60s/'70s.
What is the Black Arts Movement?
Enslaved people in this Caribbean nation led the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history.
What is Haiti (Haitian Revolution)?
Beyoncé was once part of this girl group.
What is Destiny’s Child?
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and was a major figure of Black women's literature.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This 1831 slave revolt in Virginia terrified the white South.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
He’s known as the “King of Pop.”
Who is Michael Jackson?
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
The first Black astronaut in space.
Who is Guion Bluford?
He wrote The Souls of Black Folk and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This lesser-known enslaved African planned a massive rebellion in Charleston, SC, in 1822.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
This genre of music started in the Bronx and often includes rapping and DJing.
What is hip-hop?
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The first Black woman to run for president from a major party.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This cultural explosion of the 1920s brought jazz, poetry, and radical Black thought to Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This African-born man led the 1741 slave conspiracy in NYC.
Who is Caesar?
She sang “Respect” and is called the Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Who is Langston Hughes?