If You're Not First, You're Last
Golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Tiger Woods
Refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked a boycott of buses in Montgomerey, Alabama
Rosa Parks
Launched his own film and production studio in Atlanta GA
Tyler Perry
Youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history
Amanda Gorman
First Black person to serve as Secretary of State of the United States
Colin Powell
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Founder of Fenty Beauty, this CEO made $5 billion in revenue in 2021
Rihanna
With a combined 32 Olympic and World championship medals, this individual is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time
Simone Biles
First Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (hint: her books include "The Bluest Eye" and "Sula")
Toni Morrison
4 North Carolina A&T students staged a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in what city?
Greensboro, NC
Black actor of the 1960s and 1970s who starred in movies such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, To Sir with Love, and A Raisin in the Sun
Sidney Poitier
Won the 2020 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year and 2020 Spokesperson of the Year for racial justice activism. Wore the names of victims of police brutality on her masks when on and off the court
Naomi Osaka
First Black woman to be Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris
Voting rights activist, she co-founded the Freedom Democratic Party
Fannie Lou Hamer
Wrote the famous "Georgia on my Mind" in 1960
Ray Charles
Author of "Everything, Everything" and "The Sun is Also a Star"; both books have been made into motion pictures
Nicola Yoon
First Black woman elected to the House of Representatives
Shirley Chisholm
This Supreme Court case found the separation of schools based on race to be unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education
From Akron, Ohio currently plays small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers
Lebron James
Artists who were commissioned by the White House to create official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama
Amy Sherald (Michelle Obama)
Kehinde Wiley (Barack Obama)