Women in Black History
Arts & Entertainment
Firsts
Sports
Actors and Actresses
100
She refused to give up her bus seat in what STATE in 1955.
Alabama
100
This singer holds the record for most Grammy wins AND most Grammy nominations.
Beyonce
100
This rapper became the first hip-hop solo artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.
Kendrick Lamar
100
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier on what team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
100
This filmmaker won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Get Out.
Jordan Peele
200
Who became the first Black woman to host her own nationally syndicated talk show in 1986, revolutionizing daytime television?
Oprah
200
This singer, known as the “Queen of Soul,” recorded hits like “Respect.”
Aretha Franklin
200
In 1967, he became the first Black justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
200
Name the movie that featured a 6 time NBA champion, who spent most of his career playing for the Chicago Bulls.
Space Jam
200
She became the first Black woman to win the Emmy TWICE for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her role in Euphoria.
Zendaya
300
This poet performed “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration.
Amanda Gorman
300
This Emmy-winning mockumentary series stars Quinta Brunson as a second-grade teacher in Philadelphia.
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Abbott Elementary
300
Who became the first Black artist to headline Coachella in 2018, delivering a historically Afrocentric performance?
Beyonce
300
This "Bayou Barbie" LSU basketball star told opponents “You can’t see me” during the 2023 NCAA Championship.
Angel Reese
300
This comedian and producer created the hit HBO series Insecure.
Issa Rae
400
This movie is about the Black female mathematician’s whose calculations for NASA were critical to the success of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.
Hidden Figures
400
This movie became the first directed by a Black woman to gross over $100 million at the box office.
A Wrinkle in Time, 2018
400
This author wrote the novel Beloved and was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1993).
Toni Morrison
400
He is the only person who has won an Oscar AND Olympic gold.
Kobe Bryant- Olympic gold medal (2008, 2012) and an Oscar (Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2018).
400
She became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (for How to Get Away with Murder, 2015).
Viola Davis
500
She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Ruby Bridges
500
What legendary guitarist, known as the “King of the Blues,” influenced rock icons like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton?
B.B. King
500
Which poet and activist wrote Still I Rise and became the first Black woman to recite a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration (Bill Clinton's in1993)?
Maya Angelou
500
This quarterback became the first Black starting QB to win a Super Bowl in 1988 and later became a coach and analyst.
Doug Williams
500
This rising star has been in recent movies such as: The Hunger Games, The Hate U Give, Spiderman Across the Universe, and Dear Evan Hansen. 
Amandla Stenberg