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Inventing potato chips after slicing an order of french fries extra thin to spite a demanding customer. The story has since been debunked as a myth, but he achieved success when he opened Crums, a popular restaurant in Malta, New York.
Who is George Crum (Speck)?
This gentleman’s resume includes 3 Grand Slam titles and the first Black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only Black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
This law signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawing voting discrimination and making it illegal to bar any U.S. citizen from voting based on race or color.
What is "The Voting Rights Act of 1965"?
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
An American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of Black Americans. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This Harlem postal worker named Victor H. Green published a survivor's manual titled this.
What is the Negro Motorist Green Book. (Will also accept green book)
This American blues singer-songwriter and musician often lauded as the "father of modern Chicago blues", he grew up on a plantation in Mississippi and by the age of 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica.
Who is Muddy Waters?
She served on the California Attorney General's Commission on Disability, Hayward's Commission on Personnel and Affirmative action, and the Mayor of San Francisco's Disability Council.
Who Johnnie Lacy?
This man was a civil rights activist and served in the house of representatives for Georgia. He coined the phrase “good trouble”.
Who is John Lewis?
In his early teens, he lost his vision in an accident. He became active as a junior member of the National Federation for the Blind and his local NAACP chapter. He spent his career working for Independent Living Centers and government agencies to advocate for Americans living with disabilities.
Who is Donald Galloway?
John Baptiste Point Du Sable was a Haitian American who was famous for discovering this major city in the Mid-West?
What is Chicago?
At 11-years-old, she was sent to Georgia Regional Hospital, and she remained there for eighteen years. Born with cognitive and developmental disabilities, she fought for nine years with the State of Georgia to allow her to live in a community of her choosing and fought to stop taking the medications they prescribed to keep her sedated.
Who is Lois Curtis?
He was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP. He’s known for working to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi after Brown v. Board ruled public school segregation was unconstitutional.
Who is Medgar Evers?
He was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. He was nicknamed “the black Napoleon”
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
She contributed to a safer society with her invention of the first home security system. Her invention was the first closed-circuit television security system and paved the way for modern home security systems used today.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
This African American bicycle racer was the word's first black sports superstar. He was world cycling champion in 1899, American sprint champion in 1900, and set numerous track cycling records.
Who is Marshall Walter Taylor?
Will accept "Major Taylor" as well
She is an American politician and attorney. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She taught soldiers who lost their hands to write with their teeth and feet and invented the "Portable Receptacle Support," which allowed amputees to eat independently. In 1952, the French government purchased its patent and used it across its military hospitals. Throughout her life, she was an outspoken advocate for equal rights.
Who is Bessie Blount Griffin
On February 25, 1837, this became the nation's first Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
She was the first African-American to work for the U.S. postal service. Born a slave, she was freed when slavery was outlawed in 1865. At age 63, she was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses.
Who is Mary "Stagecoach Mary" Fields?
She was the first of three women to play professional baseball full-time for the Indianapolis Clowns, in the previously all-male Negro leagues. This also made her the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team.
Who is Toni Stone?
She was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress. Also first black woman to run for president!
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Known as one of the most influential civil rights' activists in Philadelphia during the 19th century. He fought for the abolition of slavery and the implementation of civil rights for all. He was prominent in the actions that successfully desegregated Philadelphia's public trolleys and played a major role in the ratification of the 15th amendment, baring voter discrimination based on race.
Who is Octavius Catto?
A Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Ultimately, he argued, all black people in the world should return to their homeland in Africa, which should be free of white colonial rule.
Who is Marcus Garvey?