Athletes
This baseball legend broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
Important leader in the Abolitionism movement and published a narrative in 1845.
Frederick Douglass
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Muhammad Ali
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
Her and her husband founded the Arkansas State Press and known for her work on behalf of Little Rock Nine. She aslo has a state holiday on the Third Monday of February.
Daisy Bates
Who was the first African American student to integrate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana
Ruby Bridges
Who became the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree and won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize?
Wangari Maathai
Undefeated female boxer and daughter of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali
Laila Ali
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, this 15-year old was arrested and detained for not giving up her seat in the middle of the bus to a white passenger.
Who is Claudette Colvin
American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings".
Maya Angelou
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison
Who became the NHL’s first Black player
Who is Willie O’Ree
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who became the first black woman elected to Congress and during her run for Democratic Party nomination, her slogan was "Unbought and Unbossed"
Shirley Chisholm
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Who was the first African-American female White House correspondent and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries?
Who is Alice Allison Dunnigan.
Who became the first boxer to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp in 1993.
Who is Joe Louis
Who risked her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North and a spy for the Union
Harriet Tubman
Who was the first African-American woman and first Native American to earn a pilot license.
Bessie Coleman
Born in West Africa and sold into slavery, she learned to read and write by the age of 9 and became the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry.
Phillis Wheatley
Who became the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and to become a judge?
Who is Jane Bolin