Influential Women
She courageously refused to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks
First black child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana
Ruby Bridges
Garrett Morgan invented this device to help drivers which has three glowing colors: red, yellow and green.
The traffic light
Jackie Robinson
George Washington Carver invented what spreadable sandwich ingredient?
Peanut butter
First African-American talk show host who became a billionaire.
Oprah
First black explorer with Lewis & Clark
York
Who made a hair growing lotion and became a millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Was the head football coach for the Tampa Bay Bucs and Indianapolis Colts. He is a writer and sports commentator.
Tony Dungy
Author and poet from Jacksonville
James Weldon Johnson
Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in New York, she escaped to freedom. Later she toured the country speaking against slavery and changed her name.
Sojourner Truth
First Legally Sanctioned African American Community in the US.
Ft. Mose
Wally Amos is the founder of what "Famous" snack?
Famous Amos Cookies
He "loved" working as a cowboy out west.
Nat Love
In 1935 the New York Times named her "One of the great singers of our time".
Marian Anderson
There is a historically black college located in Daytona, Florida named after this educator and civil rights leader.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Thurgood Marshall
Who is the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie G. Johnson
Sprinter and first American woman to win 3 gold medals.
Wilma Rudolph
Given his freedom in exchange for enlisting in the army, he bravely fought at the Concord.
Peter Salem