Making History
Historian Carter G. Woodson is credited with creating Negro History Week in 1926, a precursor to this observance.
What is Black History Month?
This agricultural chemist gained acclaim for his discovery of alternative farming methods and uses of the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This Black female character in Star Trek: The Original Series, caused a stir in white America with one of the first on-screen, scripted interracial kisses.
Who is Uhura?
This athlete became the first Black person to play in Major League Baseball in 1947 and was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1962.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This person was the first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This poet, author, and civil rights activist who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," and "And Still I Rise," is the first African-American person to appear on U.S. currency.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Marie Daly, an American biochemist, was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States and studied the relationship between cholesterol and the health of this organ.
What is the heart?
This singer, songwriter, and pianist is known as the "Queen of Soul" and was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This person is the most decorated American Olympic gymnast in history.
Who is Simone Biles?
This American activist in the civil rights movement is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott and refused to give her seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Tulsa's Greenwood District, Chicago's Bronzewood, Durham's Hayti, Atlanta's Sweet Auburn, Little Rock's West Ninth Street, and Jackson's Farish Street are some of the financially successful Black neighborhoods also known as this.
Percy Lavon Julian was a pioneering chemist who was the first person to chemically synthesize human hormones from this plant.
What is the soybean?
This Pulitzer and Nobel prize winning author penned the works "The Bluest Eye," "Beloved," and "Song of Solomon."
Who is Toni Morrison?
This gold medalist Olympian track and field star was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy" in 1936.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This woman was the first Black woman elected to Congress and was the first Black candidate and first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Ella Baker was named director of branches in the NAACP, becoming the organization's highest ranking woman as of this year.
What is 1943?
Before her 30th birthday, Mae C. Jemison had received two undergraduate degrees and a medical degree, served two years as a Peace Corps medical officer in West Africa. She is credited with being the first Black woman of this profession.
What is an astronaut?
This famous pioneer flapper, who was the most successful American entertainer in France's history, refused to perform in segregated venues and aligned herself with the civil rights movement.
Who is Josephine Baker?
During the height of the Jim Crow era, this person, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant" became the first Black world heavyweight champion in boxing.
Who is Jack Johnson?
This enslaved African-American preacher led the most effective slave revolt in American history, which put an end to the white Southern myth that slaves were either contented with their lot or too servile to mount an armed revolt.
Who is Nat Turner?
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press was one of the first Black activist feminist publishing houses and was founded after a phone conversation between these two women in 1981.
Barbara Smith and Audre Lorde
This Black woman was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. She was one of the main characters in the book/film "Hidden Figures."
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This famous Harlem Renaissance poet, activist, and writer was called to testify before the U.S. Senate after being accused of having "far left influences."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is the first African-American woman to be named #1 in tennis in both singles and doubles and is the older sister to another tennis legend.
Who is Venus Williams?
The USDA's Free Breakfast program was inspired by this political entity.
Who is the Black Panther Party?