Who Am I?
Known as "the first lady of civil rights" for not doing something in December 1955
Who is Rosa Parks?
Invented the traffic light system
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Award-winning professional tennis sisters
Who are Venus Williams and Serena Williams
MLK Jr. gave his I Have A Dream speech at this location
Washington D.C. (Lincoln Memorial, August 1963)
This teenager got arrested in 1955 for doing what Rosa Parks would make famous 9 months later.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford and Fred Gregory
Who are the first three African Americans to travel into space?
First Black Heart surgeon in America
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1893)?
Played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, known as the Home Run King
Who is Hank Aaron (1934-2021)?
The civil rights bus boycott began in 1955 in this city.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
The first Black woman in the U.S to qualify as a doctor (Boston)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)
First black woman (engineer and physician) to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison (Space Shuttle Endeavor, 1992)?
First Black principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre
Who is Misty Copeland?
Known as "The Greatest," this professional boxer was also an activist and philanthropist.
Who is Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)?
A country in Africa that had segregation laws similar to Jim Crow laws in America
What is South Africa (Apartheid)?
Black soldiers in the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army were given this name by Native Americans in 1866
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
One of two African-American poet laureates to deliver their original poems at a Presidential Inauguration.
Maya Angelou (Bill Clinton, 1993); Amanda Gorman (Biden/Harris 2021)
American agricultural scientist who developed techniques to grow crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This professional basketball player is in the Hall of Fame, and is also known as; Diesel, Superman, and Shaq Daddy.
Who is Shaquille O'Neal?
What Caribbean country was home to Bob Marley?
What is Jamaica?
Invented the ironing board
Who is Sarah Boone?
44th President of the United States, 2009-2017.
Who is Barack Obama?
Invented an improvement in lubricators for steam engines, known as "The Real ____"
Who is Elijah McCoy?
The first Black tennis player to win a tennis Grand Slam (1956)
Who is Althea Gibson (1927-2003)
HBCU's
What are historically black colleges?
Invented laser cataract surgery
Who is Patricia Bath?