Famous Inventors
He is the interventor of various uses of peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver
The first female African-American Billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
He played T’Challa in Black Panther
Who was Chadwick Boseman?
This political organization was founded in 1966, dressed in black berets and black leather jackets.
Despite being associated with a militant "by any means necessary" philosophy, they launched programs such as free dental care, free breakfast, and drama classes in underserved black communities. *Chaka Khan helped this group start WIC program.
Who are the Black Panthers/Black Panther Party?
This famous African-American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens?
This Physicist and engineer invented a camera to photograph ultraviolet images in space. His 1969 invention captured the first UV images of the Earth's atmosphere.
Who is George Carruthers
He was the first black President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
He is named the King of Pop
Who is Michael Jackson?
Laws that created a system of legal segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
He was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament
Who is Tiger Woods?
This individual improved the method of opening and closing the elevator doors which allowed them to open and close automatically rather than having to do it manually
Who is Alexander Miles
The first African American to play in the MLB. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This superstar developed his stage name as a reference to New York's J/Z Subway which has a stop in Brooklyn
Who is Jay-Z?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th?
In 2018, this person became the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film, Dear Basketball. He was a credited writer for the project.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
This African American invented the potato chip
Who is George Crum
The first Black vice president of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris?
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)
Who is Beyonce?
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man on the bus in 1955 Montgomery, AL.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This African American female was the first player to be signed in the WNBA and is a three-time WNBA MVP
Who is Sheryl Swoopes
This African American invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun
Who is Lonnie Johnson
The first African-American woman to win the academy award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
He wrote the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family which was later adapted as a television miniseries in 1977
He also wrote, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965,
Who is Alex Haley?
This was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. It developed as a convergence of several different clandestine efforts. The exact dates of its existence are not known, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War
What is the Underground Railroad?
Formally named Cassius Clay, this American heavyweight fighter is considered the best of all time.
Who is Muhammad Ali
This African American businessman and community leader invented the three-way traffic light
Who is Garret Morgan
As a 6 year old, she entered an all white school as a symbol of the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.
Who is Ruby Bridges
Rogers Nelson's stage name
Who is Prince?
He was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright. One poem he wrote is, "Dream deferred"
Who is Langston Hughes?
African American basketball player, played for the Chicago Bull and won finals MVP 6 times.
Who is Michael Jordan
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, This African American inventor played an important role in its development.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer
Robert Johnson sold this to become the first African American Billionaire
What is BET-sold to Viacom for 3 billion?
This person was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She helped 300 slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This African American athlete is the power forward on the Los Angeles Lakers who owns a school in Cleveland.
Who is Lebron James
On July 7, 1911 Nathaniel Alexander of Lynchburg, Virginia patented this item used for seating widely across the world. According to his patent, the item was designed for to be used in schools, churches, and other auditoriums.
What is the folding chair
This group was the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They flew more than 15,000 individual flights in Europe and North Africa during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This teen movie about cheerleaders gave Gabrielle Union get her breakthrough role.
Who is Gabrielle Union?
The first group of students to integrate a high school in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957?
Who are the Little Rock Nine
This female African American gymnast has won an unprecedented 30 world championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles
This woman is responsible for the development of the 3D illusion transmitter.. This invention led to the inventions of 3D technologies including 3D film, 3D TV and modern medical imaging.
Who is Valerie Thomas
She's the first self made African American woman millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker
She wrote the poem "Still I Rise" and the book, I know why the caged bird sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
The period of time when african american dance, art literature and music flourished is called
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This African American female tennis player known for her powerful style of play has won more Grand Slam titles than any other woman or man during the open era.
Who is Serena Williams
This individual invented the first home security system in 1966
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
This individual was the first African American woman to enter space?
Who is Mae Jemison
This 2017 film, directed by Jordan Peele addressed issues of race in America through a horror-thriller narrative
What is Get Out
This historian started Negro history week, later renamed Black History Month in 1976. He was also notably the second African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This female track superstar set the world records in 1988 for both the 100 and 200 meter. They have never been broken.
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner