Poets CONT.
This poet was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Ralph Johnson Bunche?
This poet is known for their quilted narrations based on their political beliefs.
Who is Faith Ringgold?
This baseball player was actually the first African American to play on the Major League Baseball team.
Who is Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker?
This month is considered black history month.
What is February?
This woman was the first woman African American to become a self-made millionare.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This woman was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May first, 1950.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
This artist painted the famous painting "Dustheads" in 1982.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
This golf player was the first African American to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
This person is considered the person who started black history month.
Who is Carter J. Woodson?
This woman lead the Combahee River Raid, that freed over 750 slaves and had temporal lobe epilepsy?
This poet wrote the play, "A Black Mass" in 1966.
Who is Amiri Baraka?
This artist painted the President Barack Obama in the National Portrait Gallery.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
This was the year of the first black history month.
What is 1976?
This woman was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks for not giving up her bus seat.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This woman was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985.
Who is Lucille Clifton?
This new artist makes art combining ankara fabric and acrylic paint about motherhood, black power, and black traditions.
Who is Affen Segun?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who is Gerald Ford?
This woman designed the wedding dress for Jacqueline Kennedy.
Who is Ann Lowe?
This poet was the first African American to serve as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976-1978.
Who is Robert Hayden?
This city is widely known as the origin of hip-hop.
What is The Bronx, NYC.
This author was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This year is when the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded.
What is 1915?
This person was the first African American woman to earn a four-year college degree by completing a Literary degree.
Who is Lacy Stanton?