African American Firsts
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger?
Who is Harriet Tubman
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.
Who is Muhammad Ali
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
On what type of ship were Africans brought to the British Colony of Jamestown, Virginia?
What is Dutch
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Who said, "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
How many states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America?
What is 11 states
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Who said, “I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”?
Who is Langston Hughes
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the series of laws developed post Slavery?
What is The Black Codes
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Who said “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”?
Who is Muhammad Ali
Which fourteen-year-old boy Black Boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What is the name of the period where publishers and critics started to pay attention to African American Culture?
What is the Harlem Renaissance
What year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said “We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”?
Who is Barack Obama
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
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barack Obama
What is another name for the event that happened as a result of trying to integrate Central High School?
Little Rock Nine