Famous Figures
Notable Events
Media
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100
This sociologist, historian, and educator was the first African American to graduate from Harvard with a PhD.
W.E.B DuBois
100
In 1963 at this march Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech
March on Washington
100
In 2018 this rapper became the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer prize for music
Kendrick Lamar(DAMN)
100
Who wrote "I know why the cage bird sings"
Maya Angelou
100
This person said "Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty we are free at last"
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
This person is the father of black history month
Carter G. Woodson
200
In 1976 "Negro History Week" became this
Black History Month
200
This director is known for movies such as Malcolm X, Crooklyn, and Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
200
This book depicting the effects of police brutality on the black community was made into a movie in 2018(Also has inspiration from a Tupac tattoo)
The Hate U Give
200
This U.S representative became viral for saying "Reclaiming my time"
Maxine Waters
300
This figure is the winningest gymnast of all time
Simone Biles
300
This cultural explosion for African Americans spanning through the 1920's and 1930's is called what
Harlem Renaissance
300
This Michael Jackson album is the highest selling pop album of all time, estimated to have sold 66 million copies worldwide
Thriller
300
This book that Alice Walker wrote with a color in the title was made into a movie
The Color Purple
300
This famous heavy weight boxer once said "I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, i'm so mean I make medicine sick"
Muhammad Ali
400
These two figures are the co-founders of the Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
400
This landmark supreme court case desegregated schools
Brown V. Board of Education
400
This superhero became the first mainstream comic book hero of African decent in 1966
Black Panther
400
This figure wrote the Black National Anthem
James Weldon Johnson
400
This figure famously said "If there is no struggle, there is no progress"
Frederick Douglass
500
This lawyer became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
500
In 1865 this Amendment freed all slaves in the United States
13th
500
This program was the first to regularly show black music acts
Soul Train
500
What poet wrote the poem "Harlem" which was also the inspiration for the title of the play "A Raisin in the Sun"
Langston Hughes
500
This person's most famous quote is "Africa for the Africans"
Marcus Garvey