Science and Inventors
Discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.
George Washington Carver
He was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate of the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Dr. Martin Luther King
This singer-dancer performed the “Moonwalk” in the 1980s.
Michael Jackson
At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship.
Tiger Woods
The first African American president of the United States.
Barack Hussein Obama, II
Ronald McNair, Charles Bolden, and Frederick Gregory are all famous for what profession?
Astronaut
The name given to black soldiers who were trained to become pilots in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen
She is known as the “Queen of Soul”.
Aretha Franklin
This Olympic Gold Medal prizefighter was born Cassius Clay but changed his name after he joined the Nation of Islam.
Muhammed Ali
The first female black astronaut.
Mae Jemmison
This book was published by Benjamin Banneker for farmers.
Farmers' Almanac
He is often called “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”.
Frederick Douglas
Pianist Duke Ellington was a bandleader and a great composer who played at this famous New York City club from 1927 to 1931.
The Cotton Club
This basketball star center perfected a shot known as the “skyhook”?
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
The first black justice, nominated to the US Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1909 this black explorer accompanied Admiral Robert Peary to the North Pole.
Matthew Henson
In 1961 groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants. This is what they were called.
Freedom Riders
Count Basie played this instrument while leading his group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”.
Piano (or organ)
The first Black National League baseball player to hit 600 home runs.
Willie Mays
The first Black American female national security advisor.
Condoleezza Rice
Who was known as the “Black Edison”.
Granville T. Woods
This famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965.
March on Selma
This television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Debi Thomas became the first Black American to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games in this event.
Figure Skating
The first black female aviator in 1921.
Bessie Coleman