Who's Who of Black History?
Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This person was the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to hold office.
Who is Barack Obama?
After his assassination, the widespread distribution of his autobiography made him an ideological hero, especially among Black youth.
Who is Malcolm X?
She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
A professional athlete, she has one more championship titles than any other person (male or female) in the sport.
Who is Serena Williams?
Because of her political opinions and despite an excellent record as a college professor, the California Board of Regents in 1970 refused to renew her appointment as lecturer in philosophy.
Who is Angela Davis?
A charismatic Black leader from Jamaica, he organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
An African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960s. He was assassinated at the Audubon ballroom in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
Before winning the presidency, this person represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of Reconstruction (1877).
Who is Barack Obama?
A militant American black activist who gained an international reputation during her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970–72, she eventually becoming a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego.
Who is Angela Davis?
He was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League, usually called the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which sought, among other things, to build in Africa a Black-governed nation.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
An American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress and was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
An American politician, she was the first African American woman to be elected to congress.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
Born in October 17, 1956, Decatur, Alabama, U.S., she was an American physician and the first African American woman to become an astronaut.
Who is Mae Jemison?
The first child in her family born after the Emancipation Proclamation, she was born on the same cotton plantation where her parents, Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, had been enslaved before the American Civil War.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?