Black Inventors
This scientist became famous for developing hundreds of uses for crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, helping Southern farmers improve their agriculture.
Who is George Washington Carver?
At age six, this girl became one of the first Black children to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This federal holiday is celebrated because of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learning about their freedom.
What is Juneteenth?
In August 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for this major demonstration advocating for civil rights and economic opportunities.
What is the March on Washington?
Who was the first African American elected president of the United States; 2008?
Who is Barack Obama?
This inventor developed and patented an improved three-position traffic signal.
This author and poet wrote the autobiographical book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became one of the most influential works of Black American literature.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Issued during the Civil War, this 1863 proclamation declared enslaved people in areas still in rebellion against the United States to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Following the arrest of a Black woman who refused to give up her bus seat, Black residents of this Alabama city organized a year-long boycott of the city's buses beginning in 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott / In Montgomery?
Who was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues?
Who was Jack "Jackie" Robinson?
This engineer and inventor created the Super Soaker, which became one of the world's most popular water toys.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
After escaping slavery, this man became a leading abolitionist, writer, and speaker who fought for the freedom and equality of Black Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1920s-1930s cultural movement helped establish a new era of Black artistic and intellectual expression, producing influential works in literature, music, and visual art.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the legal basis for “separate but equal” in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education / Brown v. Board?
Who was the first African American female astronaut?
Who was Mae Jemison?
In 1892, this Black inventor received a patent for an improved version of a household item that made ironing clothes easier.
Who is Sarah Boone?
This entrepreneur built a successful hair-care company serving Black women and became widely recognized as America's first self-made female millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This constitutional amendment, ratified after the Civil War, abolished slavery while retaining an exception allowing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These nine students became national symbols of school desegregation after attempting to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. (you don't have to name each individual student, just the group name)
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Who was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress?
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
In the 1960s, this inventor developed an early home security system using a camera, microphone, and two-way communication to allow people to monitor who was outside their home.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
This scholar became the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and later became one of the founders of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
What term describes the discriminatory practice of denying or limiting loans, mortgages, and other financial services to residents of neighborhoods considered high-risk, often because those neighborhoods were predominantly Black?
What is redlining?
This 1960 protest movement began when four students from North Carolina A&T State University sat at a segregated lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service.
What are the Greensboro sit-ins?
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who was Thurgood Marshall?