INVENTORS
SCIENTISTS
WRITERS
EXPLORERS
HISTORICAL FIGURES
100
made the first stop light
Who is Garret A. Morgan
100
She was the third black woman doctor in the U.S.
Who is Susan Mckinny
100
Won the Best Book Award for Cousins.
Who is Vrginia Hamlton?
100
First black woman to explore space
Who is Mae Jemison
100
Delivered "I Have a Dream" speech, Washington D.C in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
200
born in Boston in 1843 and made the first lubercating cup for a train
Who is Elijah Mcoy
200
Was very into science and later became a marine biologist.
Who is Ernest Everett Just
200
Wrote the Dream Keeper.
Who is James Langston Hughes?
200
First African American to reach the North Pole
Who is Matthew A. Henson
200
played for the Brooklyn dodgers in 1946-first African American to play in major leagues
Who is Jackie Robinson?
300
invented an overhead electric system to run a train
Who is Granvill T. Wood
300
This man became an agricultural scienist
Who is George Washington Carver
300
Wrote poems for the Defender, a black Chicago news paper.
Who is Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks?
300
Founded Chicago in 1800
Who is Jean DuSable
300
Escaped from slavery in 1849 she began as a conductor underground Railroad in 1850
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
made a machine that made shoes quickly and cheaply
who is Jan Matzeliger
400
This Man Saw kids at an all white high school doing chemistry and said he wanted to do it.
Who is Percy Lavon Julian
400
Has written more than 60 books for kids and teenagers including Newberry Honor book, Scorpions.
Who is Walter Dean Myres?
400
Captured by the Capquoes (Native Americans)
Who is Esteban Dorantes
400
arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955
Who is Rosa Parks
500
invented a hair grow so hair won't fall out
Who is madam C. J. Walker
500
This woman started taking intreast in science at the age of 4
Who is Shirley Ann Jackson
500
Won the National Assosiation for the Advansement of Colored People Award for writing Native Son.
Who is Richard Nathaniel Wright?
500
Found a path across the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Long Valley, California
Who is James Beckwourth
500
Graduated from Hampton Institute,1875 and opened Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 1891
Who is Booker T. Washington
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