Black History 1
Higher education institutions in the United States were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to serve the African-American community primarily.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that children's racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown vs Board of Education
An American lawyer and civil rights activist who was the court's first African-American justice.
Thurgood Marshall
The first African American Major League Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
She wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Maya Angelou
Also known as Freedom Day, this is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those enslaved in the United States.
Juneteenth or Juneteenth Independence Day
Established in 1891, it is the largest among all HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in seven specialized engineering fields
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T)
She was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first African American woman to make a bid to be President of the United States when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972
Shirley Chisholm
Civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter
Woolworth's (The store was in downtown Greensboro, N.C.)
In November 2018, she made history as the first American to win a medal in every event at the World Gymnastics Championship.
Simone Biles
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional
Freedom Riders
As an agricultural chemist, he discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds of more uses for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes
Dr. George Washington Carver
Self-educated scientist, astronomer, inventor, writer, and antislavery publicist. He built a striking clock entirely from wood, published a Farmers' Almanac, and actively campaigned against slavery.
Benjamin Banneker
Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?
Civil Rights Act
The youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history.
Amanda Gorman
Located on St. Augustine's College campus, this hospital first opened its doors in October 1896 and served as a hospital and nurse training center for African Americans. By the 1920s, it was the largest hospital for blacks between Atlanta and Washington.
St. Agnes Hospital
The first group of students that integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957
Little Rock Nine
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement"
Harlem Renaissance
A pioneer in law, she was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and join the New York City Law Department. She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the New York City Domestic Relations Court bench in 1939.
Jane Bolin
The first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology (specializes in eye and vision care) and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986.
Youngest known inaugural poet
Patricia Bath
An annual guidebook for African-American road trippers. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966 when open discrimination against non-whites was widespread, and African Americans faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from the refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest.
Negro Motorist Green Book or Green Book
Thomas Dorsey is considered the father of this genre of music
Gospel
She was an early American civil aviator; she was the first African-American woman and first Native-American to hold a pilot license.
Bessie Coleman
Available since 1884, it is the oldest continually running African-American newspaper, being created in 1884 by Christopher James Perry, Jr.
The Philadelphia Tribune