Ancient African Civilization
Great Black Inventors
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100
It is an African country mentioned in the Bible during creation and it has the same name today
Ethiopia Gen 2:13
100
He is the Black man that invented the filament that goes into the light bulb
Lewis Latimer
100
He was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts and economic boycotts, and investigated crimes perpetrated against Black people. Because of death threats, he would get out on the passenger side of his car when he got home at night. He was eventually gunned down in his driveway. Whoopi Goldberg played his widow Myrlie Louise in the movie Ghosts of Mississippi
Medgar Evers
100
He designed a device that helped with the task of preserving perishable foods by way of refrigeration. In other words, he created the refrigerator
Thomas Elkins (1818 - 1900)
100
On March 2, 1955, she 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. No. it is not Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
200
He was a Cushite/Nubian, who was the Third Pharaoh of Egypt's 25 Dynasty and is also mentioned in the Bible as an ally of Isreal during their war against the Assyrians.
Who was Tarhaka (Taharqa) 2Kings 19:9 Isaiah 37:9
200
He created the gas mask that saved several men's lives after a July 24, 1916 tunnel explosion under Lake Erie.
Garrett A Morgan
200
He was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and the first Native-American to hold a pilot license. She earned her pilot license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first black person to earn an international pilot's license. Although she is not given the credit, she is the first woman aviator.
Bessie Coleman
200
Because Howard University’s Law School discouraged women from enrolling, this Black woman was forced to apply under the name “C.E. Ray” to disguise her gender. She matriculated at the law school for three years, from 1869 to 1872 where she concentrated on commercial law. Upon completion of the program in 1872, she became the first black woman to graduate from an American law school and receive a law degree.
Charlotte E. Ray
200
She was the first Black woman that to ever run for President of the United States and was a member of Delta Sigma theta Sorority
Shirley Chisholm
300
He is considered the richest man that ever lived and gave so much gold to Khemet, that he bankrupt the Egyptian economy.
Who was Mansa Musa
300
He created the first traffic signal after witnessing a wreck between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage.
Garrett A. Morgan
300
He was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Self-educated, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, dedicated to promoting African Americans and resettlement in Africa. He moved to America and founded the Black Star Line, a shipping company. He is famous for the quote "Africa for the Africans."
Marcus Garvey
300
He was a famous writer, philosopher, activist, and teacher, and one of the founders of the NAACP. He was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1895. His work, The Souls of Black Folk, is often taught in The Human Event. He left America and spent the rest of his life in Ghana, and there is a large bust of him on the campus of Clark Atlanta University. Of course, he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
300
She was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights, activist. She is well known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida; it later continued to develop into a university.
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
400
In 1310 he sent 250 ships from Africa across the Atlantic ocean. Later he sent a fleet of 2500 ships, lead the fleet himself and turn the empire over to his brother. Who was he and who was his brother?
Mansa Abubakari II. Elder brother of Mansa Munsa
400
He developed an automatic lubricator that spread oil evenly over a train's engine while it was still moving. The invention allowed trains to run for long periods of time without stopping, which saved both time and money. McCoy was a prolific inventor, securing dozens of patents in his lifetime. Because his invention grew in popularity, inferior copycats emerged. Railway engineers requested "the real McCoy." The popular expression, meaning "the real thing," is still used today.
Elijah McCoy (1844–1929)
400
He was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister, and supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” a stance that often put him at odds with the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
However, his exposing his leader's alleged child sexual abuse, led to him being labeled a traitor and may have led to his assassination.
Malcolm X
400
He was an inventor who held more than 60 patents in the U.S. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. After many people were killed due to trains colliding with each other, due to lack of communication, he invented a wiring system that made that communication possible, which was the precursor to the telephone. In fact, he went broke, suing Thomas Edison who tried to steal his invention.
Granville Woods
400
She felt that the system was not created to see Black students succeed. She struggled with being a Black woman, attempting to disrupt a system run primarily by white males that profit greatly from students graduating with very little education taking place. However, she persevered and started a charter school, the first of its kind in this Metro-Atlanta school district.
Christina Guillen of 7 Pillars Career Academy
500
This was a powerful African empire that lasted over 1000 years, they were very skilled with the bow & arrow, and not only did the men wear armor, so did the horses. A famous actor is named after one of its emperors.
The Kanem-Bornu Empire or Borno Empire,
Uma b. Idris,
500
His invention, the the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, was used by the Apollo 16 mission, the first Moon-based observatory.
Dr. George Carruthers
500
She was a voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was also a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who wish to seek election to government office. Because of her activism, she was shot at 16 times in a drive-by shooting by racists
Fannie Lou Hamer
500
What was the nickname that was given to the Tuskegee Airman? Hint: George Lucas made a movie with the title
Red-Tailed Angels
500
She was a powerful African Queen of Ancient Nubia, who led her army to victory three times against a Roman Army under Agustus Ceaser, forcing them into a peace treaty with her in 25 BC. "Her army returned with a bronze depiction of Augustus' head, taken from a statue of the Roman emperor. She then "buried the severed head of Augustus beneath the steps of a temple dedicated to victory." She lost an eye in one of the battles and was later referred to as "One Eye Candance." She is known for this famous quote when she sent golden arrows to the Romans. “This gift is from the Candance. If you want peace this is a token of warmth and friendship. If you want war, keep them because you will need them.”
Amanishakheto or Amanirenas
600
He wrote a book detailing how Africans came to the Americas, long "Before Columbus." He is from Guyana South America. Who is he and what is the name of his book?
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
600
She is a famous Black woman, known for inventing a tool and procedure for the removal of cataracts using a laser beam, called the Laserphaco Probe.
Bath, Patricia
600
He was a pimp, a hustler, and a gangster. He only had an 8th grade education, but became one of the most prominant civil rights leaders of the 20th Century. Film maker Spike Lee made a movie about him, played by Denzel Washington, based on his autobiography.
Malcolm X
600
In the year 1310, the great African King sent 250 ships from Mali across the Atlantic to the Americas. In 1311 he sent 2500 ships aross the Atlantic and jioned them turning the kingdom over to his younge brother. Who was he and who was the younger brother.
Abubakari II
Mansa Munsa
600
Althought she had his out of wedlock, her son Shaka Zulu became a mighty warrior in his own right nearly defeating the British. Who was she? h
Nandi
700
This African country is mentioned in the Bible, during creation and also mentioned over 45 times. It has the same name today and is the only country that was not colonized by Europe.
What is Ethiopia
700
This ancient African university was built as a “madrassah”, which translated into “school” in Arabic A madrassah at the time had a somewhat different organization and structure from the common universities of medieval Europe, although the highest level of learning at the time had similar focuses to Europe’s studia generale; even though the universirty was founded earlier.
Rather than having a central administration, the University was composed of several independent schools or colleges, each run by a single head (scholar or professor). The courses were conducted in the open courtyards of mosque complexes or private residences. Among the subjects taught at the University were medicine, surgery, mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, philosophy, language, linguistics, history geography and art. However, the principle•subject matter was Qur’anic and Islamic studies, law and literature. It is also reported that students were spending time learning a trade along with its relevant business code and ethics. The University offered a myriad of trade classes including business, carpentry, farming, fishing, construction, tailoring, navigation, shoemaking and many other handy trades. The University prospered and became a great intellectual institution, particularly during the 12th to 16th century.
700
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor 
The Eve Gene