Sports
Who was the first person to integrate baseball?
Jackie Robinson
an American civil rights activist and a former quarterback.
Colin Kaepernick
last african american president
Barack Obama
The leader of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
became the first Black woman millionaire by inventing a line of cosmetics and hair products aimed at Black consumers in the first decades of the 20th century
Madame C.J. Walker
an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest,
Muhammad Ali
Presidential Canidate of 2020
Kanye West
n American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
Martin Luther King Jr
an African-American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
became one of the leading agronomists of his time, pioneering numerous uses for peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.
George Washington Carver
arguably the most popular American track and field star in history and shaped Hitlers ideologies
Jessie Owens
advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school
Ruby Bridges
First African American Vice President
Kamala Harris
an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Best known for "Ain't I a Women"
Sojourner Truth
a doctor and medical researcher whose pioneering research into blood helped save thousands of lives during World War II
Charles Drew
at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion
Jack Johnson
The true inventor of The Matrix and The Terminator
Sophia Stewart
African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
black panther party
actress to win academy award, and stared in "Their Eyes Watching God"
Halle Berry
best known for his invention in 1914 of the safety hood, a precursor to the gas mask.
Garrett Morgan, Elijah McCoy, Thomas Jennings
an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball
satchel paige
Creator of black own school, in the Northwest, DC area
Ms. Campbell
Black separatist leader who believed that all African-origin people in Europe and America should go back to Africa.
Marcus Garvey
, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress.
Shirley Chisholm
inventor of the Stemplayer
Kanye West