Inventors
I move up & down without taking a step
Elevator.
Alexander Miles in 1887
On Feb. 11th 1990 I was released from prison after serving 27 years for fighting against aparthied in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
NAACP attorney who argued for desegregation in Brown v. B of Edu
Thurgood Marshall
I was the First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. My work inculdes: Beloved, The Bluest Eye, & Sula.
Toni Morrison
Self-taught Mathematician and astronomer helped design DC
Benjamin Banneker
NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented the ultimate 90s summer toy intended to cool you down
Super Soaker!
I became the newest country to East Africa in 2012
South Sudan
First group of students to desegregate Central High in defiance of the Governor of Arkansas
Little Rock Nine
I won 4 Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
Jesse Owens
Through the Great Migration many African Americans moved to major cities as the Black population grew in DC they coined this new name for the city
Chocolate City
I became the First Black Millioniare in America by inventing a hair care line in the 20th Century
Madame CJ Walker
I am the tallest mountain located in Tanzania
Mt.Kilimanjaro
Student leader of SNCC and future congressman who organzied sit-ins and was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington.
John Lewis
I was the first African American to win Album of the Year in 1975. Some of my classic songs include: My Cherie Amour, Sir Duke, For once in my life
Stevie Wonder
Black Broadway was the birthplace of DC Black Renaissance some landmarks include: Howard Theatre and Ben's Chilly Bowl, what is the name of this famous street now?
U St.
George Crum created this poplar snack that goes great with a sandwich
Potato Chips
170 million this (the most common language spoken)
Arabic
C.R. Leader who fought for the right to vote and led the Mississippi Freedom Dem. Party to the Democratic Conference in 1964.
Fannie Lou Hamer
I became the first Black woman elected to the US Congress and the first to run for the Presidency in 1972.
Shirley Chisholm
This University is one of only 48 U.S. private, doctoral/research-extensive universities and produces more on-campus African American Ph.D.s than any other university in the world.
Howard University
I invented the gas mask and the modern street light
Garrett Morgan
Mali has the oldest universities in the world built around 982 CE in this famous city
Timbuktu
A revolutionary movement of the 1960s & 1970s emphasixed racial pride, economic empowerment, and denouncing Eurocentric ideas and beauty standards
Black Power Mvt
In 1992 I became the first Black woman astronaut orbiting Earth on the Endeavour
Mae Jemison
Activist Angela Davis unofficially renamed the Meridian Park to this name in 1969.
Malcolm X Park