Media and Musicians
In what year did Beyonce become the first black artist to headline Coachella delivering a historically Afrocentric peformance?
2018
Who was the activist that created an organization advocating for black liberation, self defense against police brutality and community empowerment through the Ten-Point Program?
Huey P. Newton
In 1936 who became the first black athlete to win four gold medals in Olympic Games in Berlin?
Jesse Owens
Who was the first black president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Marie Van Brittan Brown was an African American nurse who invented the first .......
First closed circuit television home security in 1966 (CTCV).
What female artist is known as " The Queen of Soul"?
Aretha Franklin
Martin Luther King
This female athlete was the first black competitor at the U.S National Championship in 1950. Now known as as the U.S open. In 1956 she became the first black player to win grand slam.
Althea Gibson
In 1968 who was the first black woman to be elected to the U.S Congress?
Shirley Chisolm
In 1922 this black man invented the ___which patented, and he received a patent for a breathing device which became the early version of a gas mask.
Garret Morgan
In 1999 what female artist was the first woman to win 5 Grammy sin one night for her "flawless" album " The Miseducation of ?
Lauryn Hill
Malcolm X was an African American Revolutionary and human rights activist who founded the Muslim Mosque. He was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in?
1965
Did you know that _____ was a Jamaican sprinter who became the first person to win back to back Olympic titles in 100m and 200m in 2012 and 2016?
Usain Bolt
Dr. Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first black woman to do what...?
In 1989 Lonnie Johnson was a nuclear engineer who invented a ____.
Water gun ( Super Soaker)
James Brown is known as....?
GodFather of Soul
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by which President on July 02, 1964.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1958 Willie O'Ree was the first black player to make debut with the Boston Bruin in what league?
National Hockey League (NHL)
Jackie Robinson
Who created the first wooden clock in 1753.
Benjamin Bannaker
In 1972 this black musician was the first to won an Academy Award for Best Original Song? (shaft)
Issac Hayes
This Civil Rights Leader was the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. This group led the march on Washington in 1963 and Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
Simone Biles became the most decorated American Gymnast in history with ___Olympic and World Championship medals.
32
Who was the first self-made black female millionaire in the United States founding a haircare empire in the early 1900's?
Madam C.J Walker
In 1919 this African American inventor is known for her patent of the heating furnace using natural gas early in the 1900's. ( Known now as central air)
Alice Parker