Inventions
Sports
Notable Woman
Civil Rights
Diverse
100
Thanks for the Jerry Juice, Madam C. J. Walker
Hair care products
100
He was the top-ranked golfer in the world from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks). During this time, he won 13 of golf's major championships.
Tiger Woods
100
She led the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
100
Delivered I have a Dream speech
MLK JR
100
Who was the first African American President of the USA?
Barack Obama
200
Hey Old Central, Benjamin Banneker
America's first clock
200
Who was the first American athlete to win 4 gold medals in one Olympics
Jesse Owens
200
She created her "own" network
Oprah Winfrey
200
Mother of the civil right movement
Rosa Parks
200
Who was the first black Nobel Prize for Literature winner?
Toni Morrison
300
Got anything else Goodyear?, John Pickering
The Blimp
300
She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player
Serena Williams
300
Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go .... where?
Space
300
He was the face of the Nation of Islam and made the phrase "By any means necessary" famous
Malcolm x
300
Who was called the "First Lady of Song"?
Ella Fitzerald
400
Thanks for letting me read at night, Lewis Latimer
Electric Lamp
400
Outside the ring he attained success as a musician
Muhammad Ali
400
Marcelite Harris saw a lot of stars because...
she was the first African American female general of the Air Force.
400
This US representative organized the 1963 March on Washington and led the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 (a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that became known as “Bloody Sunday")
John Lewis
400
In 1977, this pop group received the Madison Square Garden Gold Ticket Award for selling over 100,000 tickets to their concerts there
The Jackson 5
500
Best water gun fight ever, Lonnie Johnson
Super Soaker
500
First African American to play in Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson
500
She was the first black girl to attend an all-white school in the south
Ruby Bridges
500
What are the Greensboro 4 known for?
Woolworth lunch counter sit-in in 1960, when 4 young African American students refused to leave after being denied service.
500
Who was the first black American to ever be invited to the White House?
Booker T. Washington, an author of Up from Slavery (1901)