Famous People
What university did Mary McCleod Bethune found?
What is Bethune-Cookman University?
Is the first African American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African American woman in space.
Mae C. Jemison
This group of brothers founded a music group during the 1960s. They sang ABC and I Want You Back.
Who is the Jackson 5?
He was the first black male to win a NCAA tennis Championship, the first to win a Grand Slam Title, and the first to represent the US in the Davis Cup. He was the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
This person became the first African American president.
Who is Barack Obama?
This famous person helped start the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
He was a author, surveyor, landowner and farmer. He was known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
A holiday celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US
What is Juneteenth
Is a businessman and former professional basketball player. He is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. The first billionaire player in NBA history with a net worth of $2.1 billion
Who is Michael Jordan
She is the first Black Woman to become Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
An American gymnast who has a total of 30 Olympic and world championship medals. She has the most medals in American history.
Simone Biles?
She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for Black women. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
Singer who won 6 Grammys in 2010 - the most wins in a single night by a woman in the history of the awards show.
Who is Beyoncé?
A track-and-field athlete who achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy".
Who is Jesse Owens
An American politician, diplomat, and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.
Who is Colin Powell?
An African American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
Who is George Washington Carver?
_________ was a famous African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, known for her autobiography titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who was Maya Angelou?
She was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title.
Althea Gibson
This person was the first African American to become the Supreme Court Justice in 1967 until 1991.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
What case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen in 1857?
Dred Scott
Former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker Water Gun and Nerf Gun. This inventor has made contributions to the world of nuclear and mechanical engineering.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson?
This Pop singer made the record for winning the most number of Grammy awards in one night when he received eight Grammys in 1984. In 2016, his estate earned $825 million, the highest yearly amount for a celebrity ever recorded by Forbes.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Winner of 23 Grand Slam tournament singles titles, most of any man or woman in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams
She was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York's 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
African-American revolutionary who co-founded the Black Panther Party.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood (a predecessor to the gas mask) notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.
Who was Garrett Morgan?
What Harlem theatre is a showcase for African- American talent
The Apollo
After achieving 11 NBA championships in just 13 years, in 1966, he became the first African American head coach in the NBA and the first to win a championship. In 2011, Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments on the court and in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Bill Russell
Was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet, and the first African-American woman to represent the United States as an ambassador.
Patricia Roberts Harris