Black Inventors
Garret Morgan developed this commonly obeyed three- light street traffic device.
What is the traffic (stop) light?
This man advocated for peaceful militant protest for the Civil Right's Movement of the 1960s.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This professional baseball player became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This man was the first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
Vice President Kamala Harris graduated from this historically black college.
What is Howard University?
George Washington Carver came up with more than a hundred ways to use this particular food item.
What is the peanut?
This civil activist is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This African-American musician was the first pioneer of modern rock and roll music.
Who is Chuck Berry?
These 3 amendments to the U.S. constitution gave African Americans freedom from slavery, citizenship, and the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. constitution?
HBCU's are primarily located in this region of the U.S.
What is the East Coast?
Madam C.J. Walker became the first African-American millionaire for this self-care product.
What is textured hair products?
This civil rights activist encouraged black liberation and equality by "any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
This professional boxer was nicknamed "the greatest" for his career as an athlete and activist.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of this song at the 1968 Olympics.
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
HBCU's were higher learning institutions that existed before the passing of this federal law.
What is the Civil Rights Act (of 1964)?
Marie and Albert Brown invented this particular surveillance system for individual/family use.
What is the home security system?
This civil rights activists cofounded the Black Panther Party of the late 1960s.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
This female musician was certified as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.
Who is Whitney Huston?
This event was a cultural and arts movement in the Northern U.S. during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This academy award-nominated actress is a Howard University alumni.
Who is Taraji P. Henson?
Lisa Gelobter invented this modern looped video/image format shared on social media platforms.
What is the gif?
This civil rights activist advocated for LGBTQ rights and was a prominent figure during the Stonewall Riots.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This female African-American poet and activist published several books and essays and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This woman was the first female African American that was a licensed pilot.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Currently, there are over 100 HBCU's over a span of this amount of states.
What is 20 states?