Significant Figures
"I have a dream"
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This movement was around in the 1960s. African Americans and their allies advocated for equal rights.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Popular music genres that were influenced by the black community.
What are R&B, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues?
The first black, female Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Alfred Cralle invented this to allow children to have bigger scoops of ice cream.
What is the ice scooper?
The first black president.
This movement was started in 2013 but gained more publicity and backing in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
A well known area of African American culture and Jazz music.
What is Harlem NY?
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 for arranging a ceasefire between Israelis and Arabs. He was the first African American to win.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
Garrett Morgan invented this in 1923.
What is the 3-light traffic signal?
She was the first self-made, black, female entrepreneur. She also helped to curate a line of hair care products for black women.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Who were the Friendship 9?
Known as the "Queen of Jazz".
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This track star won 4 GOLD medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
Marie Van Brittan Brown invented an early version of this in 1966.
What is the first home security system?
The first person killed in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
This was the first black women to refuse to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This genre of music helped to spread ideas of integration and spread African American culture.
What is R&B?
This was the first African American women to graduate from college.
Who is Lucy Stanton?
Lonnie Johnson created this popular children's toy. He also worked for NASA.
What is the super soaker?
A pioneer of jazz music and lived in Harlem, NY.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This women is often referred to as the "Godmother of Rock n Roll". She influenced many early rock musicians.
Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
Was the first doctor to successfully perform open heart surgery.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Fredrick McKinley Jones created this system to aid in transporting goods in the 1930s.
What are refrigerated trucks?