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She is a radical activist, philosopher, writer, speaker, and educator known for her association with the Black Panthers.
Who is Angela Davis
Who is credited for the invention of the first potato chips?
Who is George Crum
Nickname The Captain
Who is Willis Reed?
This woman has served on the Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 21 years as of 2013.
Who is Cheryl Boone Isaacs
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Who is the retired American nurse aide who was a was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus; nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing?
Who is Claudette Colvin
Who was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee?
Who is George Franklin Grant
Nickname The Queen of Soul
Who is Aretha Franklin
Who was the former slave, best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman?
Lucy Terry Prince
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
Who took the reins and organized the Little Rock Nine. She selected nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957.
Who is Daisy Bates
Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. who broke barriers for African American women and launched the Title IX revolution.
She graduated first in her law class and was the only female and African American in the class.
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris
Nickname Lady O
Who is Oprah Winfrey
Which songstress got her start in Detroit, Michigan in her father's church?
Who is Aretha Franklin
Who's the most decorated gymnast of all time?
Who is Simone Biles?
Who was the civil rights pioneer who championed voting rights for African Americans. She was brutally beaten for helping to lead a 1965 civil rights march, which became known as Bloody Sunday?
Who is Amelia Boynton Robinson
Who is the current President of Prairie View A&M University?
Who is Ruth Simmons
Nickname The Velvet Hammer
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris
Who became the first black woman television host in 1986?
Who is Oprah Winfrey
Who was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for for civil and human rights?
What is Sojourner Truth?
Born as George Speck, but later took his dad's nickname as his last name.
Who is George Crum
President Clinton appointed this woman as a U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand; she served from 1999 until 2001
Who is Carol Moseley Braun
Whose neighborhood was nicknamed Dynamite Hill?
Who is Angela Davis
Who is an African-American drag racing and stock car racing driver whose dad is also in the same profession?
Who is Tia Norfleet
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barack Obama