Sports
This man was the 1st African American to play in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson
This person's refusal to give up their seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This man was really into nuts, however he was by far not crazy, in fact he was a genius.
Who is George Washington Carver
This originally 4 member group did eventually dwindle, not all of them were "Survivors" however the remaining women were some "Independent Women".
Who is Destiny's Child.
This man was the 1st African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods
This person was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X
This person was the 1st African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell
This person was the 1st African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker
This woman said, "Bringing the gift that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise, I rise.
Who is Maya Angelou.
This man is the self proclaimed greatest boxer of all time, originally named after his father who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
This person won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scott decision)
Tick tock, tick tock, this person invented the clock.
Who is Benjamin Banneker.
This 14 year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till.
This woman was the 1st black player allowed to compete at the U.S Nationals Tennis Competition in 1950 and won both this and Wimbledon in 1957.
Who is Althea Gibson
This racially motivated attack caused the death of 4 little girls in a public place in Alabama in 1963.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing.
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
And let there be light! This man created the lightbulb with a carbon filament.
Who is Lewis Latimer.
This is the oldest Civil Rights organization still working today
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This man was the 1st African American to win 4 gold medals in track and field in the 1936 Summer Olympics also foiling Hitler's plans to showcase for his regime.
Who is Jesse Owens
This group of Black students went to Central High School to begin classes in a formerly segregated school, but were greeted with the Arkansas National Guard and an angry, threatening mob.
Who are the Little Rock Nine.
This person was the 1st African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for Presidency.
He didn't just invent one thing, but he created two! The traffic light and gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan
She was the 1st female Egyptian pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut