Education
Sports
Legal History
Note Worthy
Milestones
100
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
Booker T. Washington
100
An American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens
100
Who was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
100
Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?
Sojourner Truth
100
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Ralph Bunche
200
Who became the first African American to receive a PhD?
W.E.B. Du Bois
200
Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany?
Jesse Owens
200
Who was the first Black Woman in the US Senate?
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.
200
Who the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison - 1993 - Nobel Prize in Literature
200
Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
300
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Carter G. Woodson
300
Which Black woman athlete is considered “the fastest woman of all time” and set the record for the 100 and 200 meters in 1988?
Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith Joyner (1959 - 1998)
300
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976
300
Who helped black artists and disadvantaged children while winning 13 Grammys and being honored as the "First Lady of Song"?
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996)
300
Who was the first black woman to write a Broadway play (1959) which was made into a movie (1961), “A Raisin in the Sun”?
Lorraine Hansbury
400
What college, originally established as the August Institute, was organized by three ministers in the basement of a Baptist church in 1867?
Morehouse College
400
The first African American to win an Olympic gold medal.
Member of the gold medal-winning men's medley relay team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
400
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
400
What is the name of the novel that earned author Alice Walker a Pulitzer Prize?
The Color Purple
400
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel, 1939 (Best supporting actress)
500
The first African-American woman to receive a PhD in the United States.
Georgiana Rose Simpson
500
First Black woman to win Olympic gold in speedskating.
Erin Jackson 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Beijing.
500
What was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
1954, a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
500
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
Lauryn Hill
500
Who was the first African-American woman to become an ordained minister, a lawyer who helped found the first legal periodical about women's rights, and co-founded the National Organization of Women?
Pauli Murray
