Athletes
Madame CJ Walker became America’s first self main millionaire in 1910 what item or items led to accomplishment?
Beauty and hair products for black women
What phrase did Malcom X popularize to advocate for black self defense and empowerment?
By any means necessary?
Who was the first black student to integrate Little Rock central High School in 1957?
Elizabeth Eckford (of the Little Rock nine)
Who organized the 1963 March on Washington and delivered the iconic “I have a dream” speech?
Dr.Martin Luther King jr
Who broke the MLB color barrier in 1947,becoming the first black player in modern Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Who become the first black woman to travel to space in 1992?
Dr.Mae Jemison
Who founded the Tuskegee institute in Alabama in 1881?
Booker T. Washington
In what year did Barack Obama become the first African-American elected president of the United States?
2008
In what year was black history month first recognized nationally in the U.S.?
1976
Which two members co-founded the black partner party?
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
Who founded the NAACP in 1909?
W.E.B Du Bois
When did Rosa parks refuse to move out of her seat on the bus?
December 1955
Who became the first African-American US senator in 1870?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Who was the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and the first run for a major party’s presidential nomination, 1972?
Shirley Chisholm
Who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks?
Claudette Colvin
Who invented the three light traffic signal?
Garrett Morgan
Who was the first black woman in the US to earn a medical degree in 1864?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Who was the first black man to become a lawyer in 1854
John Mercer Langston
Who became the first African-American man to hold the world heavyweight champion boxing title in 1906?
Jack Johnson
Who is the man behind Black History Month?
Carter G.Woodson
What caused the movement for the Greensboro Four sit-in?
The intense frustration among four black college freshman the Greensboro four. Regrading to entrenched segregation and specifically the white only policy at the F.W. Woolworths lunch counter.
Who was the first black cable car conductor in San Francisco in 1944?
Maya Angelou
Who was the first African American to host a nationally televised show?
Nat King Cole
Who was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal? ( high jump)
Alice Coachman
Who was the first black woman to earn a bachelors degree in 1862?
Mary Jane Patterson