The Great Emancipator
Proclamation 95 was issued on September 22, 1862.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the first Black player enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This person started a school in Alabama where Black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She was first Black person to work at NASA. Her work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights and would later work on Apollo flights to the Moon, the Space Shuttle program and even plans for the mission to Mars.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The president named this person to be the first Black justice to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Only on June 19, 1865, 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom by Union General Gordon Granger.
What is Juneteeth?
He was the first Black major league baseball coach to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall fo Fame.
Who is Buck O'Neil?
This person started a newspaper called "The North Star".
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This person was a doctor who spent two years working with poor people in Africa before she went on to become famous. She served as mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
Who is Colin Powell?
The newspaper that was founded in Washington D.C. by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
What was The National Era?
This person's performance at the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This person refused to give up a seat on the bus. That led to a 382-day bus boycott by Black people in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
In 1967, he was the first Black astronaut, but died in a plane crash during a training flight and never made it into space.
Who is Robert H. Lawrence Jr.?
This Nobel Peace Prize winner became the second African-American Peace Prize winner in 1964 as Ralph J. Bunche was the first African-American to receive the coveted prize in 1950 for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He was the poet that wrote "Emancipation In The District Of Columbia".
Who was James Madison Bell?
This Ghana-born goalkeeper is widely considered not only England's, but the world's first black professional soccer player.
Who is Arthur Wharton?
When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold into slavery.
Who is George Washington Carver?
He was the first African-American space shuttle commander in 1998.
Who is Frederick D. Gregory?
This Georgia-born combat pilot in 1917, was denied entry into the U.S. Army Air Corps because of his race, served throughout World War I in the French Flying Corps. He received the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor among many other decorations.
Who is Eugene Jacques Bullard?
She was the first slave freed by Abraham Lincoln in July 9, 1841 when Abraham Lincoln was 32 years old and serving his 4th term in the Illinois State Legislature.
Who is Nance Legins-Costley?
She was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. She became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title.
Who is Althea Neale Gibson?
Because this person led so many slaves to freedom, he or she was sometimes called by the nickname Moses.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
In 1983, he became the first Black astronaut to travel in space.
Who is Guion Bluford?
First Congressional Medal Honor winner for bravery during the Civil War. He received his Congressional Medal of Honor in 1900.
Who is Sargent William H. Carney?