Historical Figures | Black Men
Giver of "I have a Dream" speech
What is Martin Luther King Jr. ?
Writer of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
What is Maya Angelou ?
Invented the three-way traffic light
What is Garrett Morgan ?
Black History Month's original name
What is "Negro History Week"
First African American President
What is Barack Obama ?
Creator of "Negro History Week"`
What is Carter G. Woodson?
Lesser known woman who was arrested for not giving up her seat
What is Claudette Colvin?
Created African American hair care products
What is Madam C.J. Walker
1861 War
What is the Civil War?
First African American Woman US Vice President
What is Kamala Harris?
First Black person in space in 1983
What is Guion Bluford?
First African American to publish a book of poetry
What is Phillis Wheatley ?
Creator and Host of Soul Train
What is Don Cornelius?
The year President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863?
First Black woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice
Ketanji Brow
First African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908.
What is Jack Johnson
First African American performer to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone with the Wind
What is Hattie McDaniel?
Travel guide did African American’s use, with publishing between 1936-1966
What is The Negro Motorist Green Book ?
The year the 15th Amendment guaranteed that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color or previous servitude
1870
The first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice
What is Thurgood Marshall ?
The first Black person in space in 1983
What is Guion Bluford ?
First Black woman in America to earn a four-year college degree.
What is Lucy Stanton ?
Invented the Clothes dryer in 1892
What is George T. Sampson?
The year more than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation’s history
What is 1963?
First Black U.S. senator in 1870.
What is Hiram Rhodes ?