Famous Figures
Who is known as the "Father of Black History"?
Carter G. Woodson
What laws enforced racial segregation in the southern U.S.
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Who invented the three-light traffic signal?
Garrett Morgan
Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
Ralph Bunche
Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What landmark Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
What famous boxer was known as "The Greatest" and refused to fight in the Vietnam War?
Muhammad Ali
What African American scientist is known for his research on peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Shirley Chisholm
What abolitionist and former slave was known as the "Moses of her people"?
Harriet Tubman
What year was the Civil Rights Act passed, banning segregation and discrimination?
1964
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
Who was the first African American woman in space?
Mae Jemison
What was the first historically Black college in the U.S.?
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
What African American singer was known as the "Queen of Soul"?
Aretha Franklin
Who was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Who was the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city?
Carl Stokes, Cleveland
Which African American woman became the first to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus before Rosa Parks?
Claudette Colvin
What was the name of the group of nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957?
The Little Rock Nine
Who became the first Black woman billionaire through her talk show and media empire?
Oprah Winfrey
Who helped develop the first home security system and closed-circuit TV?
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Who was the first Black astronaut to travel to space?
Guion Bluford