Milestones
The year the first African American president was elected.
What is 2008?
The first African American Woman to headline Coachella.
The vision of this organization is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
“Darkness can not drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for this invention patented by Alexander Graham Bell
What is the telephone?
The year Kamala Harris was voted as the nation's first Black Vice President.
What is 2020?
The first African American female billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This organization's first president was Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou?
This 1950’s invention by Christina Jenkins revolutionized Black hair styles.
The year the first Black person (Thurgood Marshall) was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
What is 1967?
The first African American Woman to win 3 Gold medals in a single Olympic Game.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
This organization was founded by Mary McLeod Bethune
What is the National council of Negro women?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair”
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Invented by Garrett Morgan in 1923.
What is the traffic light?
The year the first African American woman was crowned Miss America.
What is 1983?
The first African American millionaire
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This organization was founded during the Great Depression by African American mothers with the idea of bring children together in a social and cultural environment.
What is Jack and Jill of America?
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.”
Who is Cicely Tyson?
Nurse, Mary Van Battan Brown co-created this to feel safe while home alone?
What is The Home Security System?
The year Aretha Franklin graced the stage at the Forum.
What is 1968?
The first Black female astronaut
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
This organization is for Black engineers & was founded at Purdue University by the “Chicago Six”
What is the NSBE: National society of Black Engineers?
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This famous doctor worked with the Red Cross & developed blood bank programs.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?